Presence and participation of workers and contributors in local and regional radio stations in Catalonia

Resum

One of the factors that explains the working of the media is the active participation of people in their professional structures. In this sense, employees and contributors are key for the media to develop their social task of providing information to their audience. In a specific media such as local and regional radio stations of Catalonia, the human factor still has a higher incidence to explain its functional organization and information supply. The paper tries to discover which are the tasks and responsibilities that the workers and contributors in Catalan radios take part in, and also the relations between them. These are the professional figures that make possible the operation and programming of the media, so that the human side of communication is a cross-cutting element of the investigation. The research defines the functions of the different professional figures, which implies, among others, the breakdown their relationship with the media. Workers and contributors exercise tasks and responsibilities that may coincide or that are differenced, and that are linked with the place they occupy in the organization chart structure of each radio. To know this situation it has been crossed the quantitative methodology of the survey with the qualitative research interviews. With the research have been confined media and territorial limits on local and regional radio stations in Catalonia and has defined the employment situation in the media, focusing on the figures of workers and collaborators.