El periódico digital – laboratorio, un estudio descriptivo sobre su pertinencia en la formación de periodistas.

This article provides the results of an investigation of an exploratory nature and descriptive about the role and relevance of ways pilots in the training of journalists as a pre-conception and design of a newspaper-lab. In the first phase of the study, based on a document review, discusses the stages through which has gone through the training of journalists and changes. Similarly, there is reflected the presence of newspapers in the training and establishing the theoretical and practical reasons justifying the existence of student newspapers. In the second phase of the research were used focus groups to identify the expectations and interests of the student newspaper on a digital laboratory. So it was found, among other approaches, that hope to obtain experience in all phases of production in this environment; want to approach the working world but in a supportive environment, and believe that this project would be very important to boost the quality of teaching and learning. It also concludes that pick up the figure of the laboratories is an opportunity for Congenies the operational theory with practical, especially if new technologies are incorporated technological processor like to know.