Javier Mayoral Sánchez
Associate Professor
Journalism
Complutense University of Madrid
Spain
Biography
Javier Mayoral Sánchez was born in Trasierra (Badajoz) in 1970. He has a degree in Hispanic Philology and a PhD in Journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid. Since 2000, he teaches in the Department of Journalism I of the Faculty of Information Sciences (UCM). In 2005 he joined the Camilo José Cela University and directed a research project on journalistic information sources (the book that includes this study will be published during 2008). His research has focused on three major areas: the work of columnist Francisco Umbral, the use of information sources and journalistic writing for audiovisual media. He has developed his professional career as a journalist in the Informative Services of Telemadrid. Between the years 2000 and 2002 he edited the Weekend Telenoticias.
Research Interest
the work of columnist Francisco Umbral, the use of information sources and journalistic writing for audiovisual media
Publications
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Don Francisco Umbral and his lacerated reader ", in Studies on the Journalistic Message , nº 4, pp. 191-202, Publishing Service of the UCM, Madrid, 1998.
