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Javier Díaz Noci (Vitoria-Gasteiz, September 7, 1964)​ is a professor and researcher at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona).2​ He was one of the first researchers on digital journalism in Spain. He has also specialized in the study of the history of journalism and legal research on intellectual property applied to news, especially the impact that artificial intelligence is having on copyright.[1]

Early life

He was born into a working class family. He graduated in Journalism from the University of the Basque Country in 1987. He was a journalist between 1985 and 1992, both in newspapers (La Gaceta del Norte, Deia) and radio stations (amongst others, Radio Nacional of Spain). Subsequently, he has collaborated with various information and opinion programs on the Basque public radio station Euskadi Irratia.

After finishing his degree in Information Sciences, he completed doctoral studies in the Department of Contemporary History of the University of the Basque Country. He obtained his first doctorate, in History, in June 1992, with a thesis on the history of journalism in the Basque language. He obtained his second degree, in Law, from the University of the Basque Country in 1996, and his doctorate, in Law, in 2016, with a PhD dissertation on copyright and news reporting.[2]

He was an associate professor at the Faculty of Social and Communication Sciences at the University of the Basque Country between 1994 and 2008, and from 2008 to the present he is a full professor at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). He has also been a visiting researcher at, among other centers, the University of Oxford (1998-1999), the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil (2005 and 2008), the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom (2021) and the University College Dublin, Ireland (2023-2024).

He was the head of the media section of the Basque Studies Society, and is a member of, among others, the Association of Communication Historians of Spain and the International Society for the Study of News Pamphlets (SIERS).

He is author of more than 300 contributions on the aforementioned topics.[3]

Career

He began his professional career as a journalist in 1985 in the daily newspaper La Gaceta del Norte, and upon completing his degree in Journalism he worked for a few months at Radio Vitoria, and then collaborated with the newspaper Deia and Radiocadena Española. He was a journalist and speaker for Radio Nacional de España between 1989 and 1991. He worked in 1991 and 1992 at the Radio Popular station in San Sebastián. Between 2012 and 2024 he has collaborated with the Basque public radio station Euskadi Irratia as a talk show host, commenting on current political events.

His activity as a professor and university researcher began in 1994, at his alma mater, the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication of the University of the Basque Country. Between that year and 2008, he taught subjects related to newswriting[4], both in Spanish and the Basque language. He was the author of the first manuals on journalistic writing in Basque.[5]

He moved to the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona in October 2008, and he obtained the position of university full professor in 2012. At this university, he has been in charge of teaching subjects related to digital journalism[6] and, since 2021, he is professor of Journalism History.[7] He has been the coordinator of the doctorate in communication and coordinator of two research master's degrees, where he has taught subjects on research methodology. He has researched the application of new technologies to postgraduate teaching and has coordinated several free access manuals on research techniques applied to the study of social communication.



References

  1. ^ Díaz-Noci, Javier (2024). "The Influence of AI in the Media Work Force: How Companies Use an Array of Legal Remedies".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ Díaz-Noci, Javier (2016). "Copyright and news reporting: a comparative research study on the authors' rights of media companies, journalists and audiences".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ Díaz-Noci, Javier (2024). "Javier Díaz-Noci's webpage".
  4. ^ Díaz-Noci, Javier (2024). "Newswriting".
  5. ^ Díaz-Noci, Javier (2000). Informazio-generoak [News genres] (in Basque) (2nd ed.). Bilbao: University of the Basque Country. ISBN 978-84-8373-263-2.
  6. ^ Díaz-Noci, Javier (2024). "Online Journalism teaching".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ Díaz-Noci, Javier (2024). "Journalism History teaching".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)