“…In this sense, it is important for scientific reflection to challenge the oversimplified aphorism that journalism depends on the existence of journalists -which places the core of the problem in issues such as the precariousness and depletion of newsrooms, which play a fundamental role in assessing certain quality conditions, but are insufficient to account for all the tensions that pervade the field. Hence, analysing the quality of journalism must consider the study of journalists' current extent of agency, which involves understanding how the individual dimensions of the journalistic act can manifest within the conditions of the possibility of contemporary journalistic production (Loureiro, 2023). Indeed, journalists acknowledge a decline in the quality standards of journalistic products, a trend they attribute to the ongoing crisis within the sector (Gómez-Mompart et al, 2015).…”