Dependencia y pasividad en la selección de fuentes informativas en el periodismo radiofónico en España

This article is the result of exploratory studies that analyses the selection processes of information sources in the news production by radio journalists. The corpus of analysis included news broadcasted on midday radio programs by the four major Spanish national networks ( Cadena SER, COPE, Onda Cero and Radio Nacional de Espana ) during a period of four weeks. Based on original taxonomy for journalistic sources, it was carried out a content analysis in order to know how these sources are used in news producing and to establish possible differences in the main thematic sections. Among the main results of the study are a higher dependence from official sources and a great degree of passivity in the process of source selection, which contrasts with the characteristic values present in the discourse of journalistic professional practice.