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## Antonio Pampliega: "We journalists are obliged to be the light in an increasingly dark world". The war correspondent inaugurates the 16th Master's Degree in New Trends and Innovation Processes in Communication at the UJI.

07/11/2022 |
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Journalist Antonio Pampliega, correspondent in numerous war conflicts and winner of several national and international awards, said today at the Universitat Jaume I that "journalists are the eyes of those who cannot see and the voice of those who cannot speak. We are obliged to be the light in an increasingly dark world". Pampliega, who took part in the inauguration of the Master's Degree in New Trends and Innovation Processes in Communication at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón, stated that journalists "owe it to the people and to the truth" and that, on most occasions, without them, it would not be possible to know what is happening in wars. "We have to go wherever we can to denounce whatever it is," he said.

The journalist, who is currently the presenter of the podcast Costa Nostra about the mafias on the Costa del Sol, which can be listened to on Amazon Music, tried to open the students' eyes to the suffering in war zones and how the ethics of journalists must be above a report or a photograph.

In his speech, Pampliega, who has spent more than a decade travelling through various conflict zones (Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Ukraine), brought the students of the Master's Degree in Journalism, who also attended the session, closer to the reality of a profession that "is not living its best moment and is questioned by society". Thus, he highlighted the figure of freelance journalists in the new media scenario and the danger of covering war zones (Pampliega was held hostage for 299 days by Al Qaeda in Syria in 2015). During the conference, he spoke unequivocally about the difficulty young people have in finding a place in a profession that "mistreats" and pays real misery to those who risk their lives to tell the truth. "My father has been telling me for years that I don't have a profession, but a very expensive hobby. But I have been fighting for 15 years for my profession not to be a hobby, but a way of earning a living", he said.

The inauguration of the Master's Degree in New Trends and Innovation Processes in Communication was attended by the vice-rector for Studies and Permanent Education, Isabel García Izquierdo; the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Javier Vellón, and the coordinator of the master's degree, Francisco Fernández Beltrán. The UJI's Master's Degree, which has 41 students, 26 of whom are new students, is the oldest official Master's Degree in Communication in the Valencian Community.

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