Workshop: Anti-Mafia Journalism
A.Y. 2026/2027
Learning objectives
Several are the objectives of this workshop. First of all, to promote awareness of the role of journalism to face mafia-style crime. To this end, to provide elements of the history of anti-mafia journalism while also teaching the varied potential of the different genres and languages of journalism: news and investigation, historical reconstruction and reporting, interview and storytelling, through different 'media', ranging from traditional written text to multimedia products, with an eye to international trends. Finally, orienting students towards forms of enhancement of their talents: writing skills, general knowledge, specific knowledge, human and civic sensitivity, creativity. The workshop will take place through frontal lessons, discussions and comparison of individual experiences, testimonies from professionals in the field.
Expected learning outcomes
With a 75% attendance and the delivery of two papers (out of a total of two), students will have to show that they know how to grasp and tell a news story, master the specific language, move with proactivity in the collection of sources.
The exercises and the lessons will be carried out in presence or at distance, depending on the evolution of the epidemiological situation.
The exercises and the lessons will be carried out in presence or at distance, depending on the evolution of the epidemiological situation.
Lesson period: First trimester
Assessment methods: Giudizio di approvazione
Assessment result: superato/non superato
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
First trimester
Course syllabus
The anti-Mafia journalism workshop is one of the most significant outcomes of the line of research into organised crime that has been developing since 2009 at the Faculty of Political Science; it was established in 2010-2011 at the request of a group of students, some of whom went on to become professional journalists.
The workshop falls within that area of study of the Mafia phenomenon which focuses on the role of the press - and in particular investigative journalism - in countering Mafia power and its ways of influencing society and politics.
The workshop will consist of ten sessions in the first term (September-December, at the teaching block in Via Conservatorio), in which theoretical lectures will be followed by professional testimonies from journalists working on the subject, as well as writing or visual documentation exercises, which will then be discussed as a group.
The workshop has a maximum intake of 30 students.
Enrolment for the 2026/2027 academic year is now open.
Here
https://forms.gle/pCYbWt8LrKP7we6Z6
The workshop falls within that area of study of the Mafia phenomenon which focuses on the role of the press - and in particular investigative journalism - in countering Mafia power and its ways of influencing society and politics.
The workshop will consist of ten sessions in the first term (September-December, at the teaching block in Via Conservatorio), in which theoretical lectures will be followed by professional testimonies from journalists working on the subject, as well as writing or visual documentation exercises, which will then be discussed as a group.
The workshop has a maximum intake of 30 students.
Enrolment for the 2026/2027 academic year is now open.
Here
https://forms.gle/pCYbWt8LrKP7we6Z6
Prerequisites for admission
There are no special prerequisites.
Teaching methods
Lectures, discussions and comparison of individual experiences, professional testimonials, team work
Teaching Resources
I'll be discussed in class
Assessment methods and Criteria
Compulsory attendance
Approval of exercise
Pass/not pass
Approval of exercise
Pass/not pass
GSPS-06/A - Sociology of Cultural and Communication Processes - University credits: 3
Laboratories: 20 hours
Professor:
Splendore Sergio
Professor(s)