Culture of Journalism

The course is organized into three modules. The first addresses the basic elements of traditional journalism: what is a news, the problems with the sources, how to write an article, the different journalistic genres (interview, reportage, opinion ), journalistic ethic and deontology. The second module focuses on how, in the last twenty years, the world of communication has changed, through the case histories of two iconic newspapers (The New York Times and The Washington Post) and two web sites (BuzzFeed and Vice) that changed the rules. Finally, in the third module, we will concentrate on how social medias are changing our way to get and offer informations. Meetings will be scheduled with professionals (journalists, editors, PR officers ).

The course aims to lead students to acquire the knowledge necessary to analyze and understand journalistic information on paper, online, and on social medias, to know how to decode it and to read the underlying and undeclared interests. A secondary result concerns the learning of relational dynamics between a newspaper and, generally speaking, with journalists in order to arrive at the publication of news, events, or a significant date. A further result is the reader's understanding of the new demand for information.