When university quality counts: The law of communication and training of social communicators in Ecuador

摘要

The approval of the “Communication law” in Ecuador (LOC-2013), alerted to the journalists. In article number 42, related to the professionalization, is considered harmful to the right to the communication and will push the journalist, to return to the classrooms. This article analyzes the university offer related to the communication sciences, and the geographical coverage, showing the universities concentration in the province capitals of Ecuador, and this become in a difficult to be a professional in communication sciences. In Ecuador, the mass communication is deeply marked with the lack ot a professional title, strong critics to the mass media and negative reports about the freedom of speech, mostly in the last 5 years. What the universities have to offer, also have some deficiencies.