Capitalism and new technologies in the news industry

Abstract

This article is a reflection on how the global capitalism stage and the post-fordism cumulative regime are manifested in journalistic organizations. We analyze the process of structuralization of the work and the routines of production in a new ‘assembly line’, more flexible, in contemporary cultural industries. We hypothesize that this neo-structuralization of national conglomerates of communication on new transnational conglomerates, and the rearrangement of the journalistic production process provokes changes in journalism as a social activity.