Teaching Workshop: Journalism: from the Office to Ai. How to Find, Write and Publish News
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
The teaching workshop presents students with the variegated world of information: from printed newspapers, to websites to television programs, illustrating for each media the characteristics of both news gathering and editorial work. It also provides the main techniques for writing articles and the basics of communications sociology
Expected learning outcomes
Knowledge of methods for collecting news, ability to focus on various journalistic specializations and in the use of media, writing skills and article setup.
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Giudizio di approvazione
Assessment result: superato/non superato
Single course
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Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
Course syllabus
Journalism: rules and ethics; how to govern a newspaper, the directors story; how to gather news, the testimony of some famous reporters; the approach to information and respect for human dignity; television journalism explained by the general managers of the large networks; investigative journalism and data journalism told by famous TV and newspaper writers; journalism and the new frontier of Artificial Intelligence: opportunities and problems.
Prerequisites: Nobody
Prerequisites: Nobody
Prerequisites for admission
None
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons with the aid of a web screen, permanent presence of guests, practical and individual writing exercises. At the end of the course, each student is able to write an article and know the main rules of journalistic ethics.
Teaching Resources
Each student is required to read at least one newspaper a day and take notes of each lesson with the device of their choice, including pen and notebook, and then write an article of at least 30 lines after each lesson.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The constant participation of the student and the fruitful performance of the activities assigned to him are verified through the control and criticism of the written articles.
The final evaluation is "Approved" or "Not-approved".
The final evaluation is "Approved" or "Not-approved".
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