Culture of Journalism

The course is organized into two modules: the first addresses the transformations in information and the structure of a newspaper; the second the importance and implications of "word and writing" in journalistic language. The different kinds of expression from the article to the investigation, from reporting to new journalism are examined. It is intended to enter the student into the world of the time when the news was made, into the sources used, into the organization of a newspaper/weekly journal, into the management of information. All in a constant interaction with the multiple jobs present in a newsroom. These insights along with the portraits of some of the great signatures of journalism, highlight their originality, thought and method of work. From the documents, there is also the representation of journalism which, over time, has been made by cinema. Meetings with communication professionals are planned.

The course aims to lead students to acquire the knowledge necessary to analyze and interpret journalistic information both on paper and online, 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 demand for information. At the end of the course the student will have honed his critical and assessment skills, thanks also to the invitation to read newspapers and sites, tracing in the daily articles the problems and the content presented in the lesson: the students will be sent articles to read to a Facebook address, created at the beginning of the course and formulate meaningful considerations which will be then the subject of collective discussion.