The opposite evolution of Journalism and History throughout Contemporaneity

Journalism and History make up two of the intellectual activities that, since the dawn of contemporaneity, have played a central role in liberal society. Although they broke out almost simultaneously, their origins were antagonistic, since "historical science" had a single cradle, Prussia in the third decade of the 19th century, and contemporary journalism sprang up in different countries, to the beat of bourgeois revolutions, with very diverse physiognomies. Then, with the passing of time, both subjects evolved in an antithetical way, in such a way that while History diversified its methods and its scientific production, Journalism entered a sustained process of standardization on an international scale. In this article, we propose to contrast both trajectories, with their coincidences and dissimilarities, to calibrate the social utility of the respective productions.