Università Roma Tre

By the end of the course students will:

• Have a basic understanding of the role of journalism in our modern societies and the challenges and changes it is currently undergoing (e.g. technological, societal and ethical developments)
• Have built and demonstrated a knowledge of differences between journalism in different countries all over the world (e.g. media system, institutions, content and journalists).
• Have compared the Italian journalism with that in the US and critically assessed the two approaches.
• Discussed the complex relationship between journalism and the development of a democratic society and displayed awareness of future challenges concerning (international) journalism.
• Be able to fulfill at least very basic journalistic tasks (such as writing a complete short news message and a pre-editing of a newspaper page or webpage microsite).

Reading:

A. Tucher, “Why Journalism History Matters: The Gaffe, the ‘Stuff,’ and the Historical Imagination”, in American
Journalism; Fall 2014, Vol. 31, pp. 432-444
S. Pasti, M. Chernysh and L. Svitich, “The Russian journalist and their profession”, in D. Weaver and L. Willnat (Eds.)
The global journalist in the 21st Century. New York: Routledge, 2012 Selections from: M. Conboy, Journalism. A Critical History,
Sage, 2014; I. Hargreaves, Journalism. A Very Short Introduction, Oxford UP, 2003
M. Bromley, “Subterfuge as public service: investigative journalism as idealized journalism,” in S. Allan (ed.), Journalism:
Critical Issues; Open University Press, 2005, pp. 313-329
I. Hargreaves, Journalism. A Very Short Introduction, Oxford UP, 2003
S. Allan (ed.), Journalism: Critical Issues; Open University Press, 2005
H. Sissons, Practical Journalism. How to write news, SAGE, 2006
Y.T. Mc Ewen and F.A. Fisken (eds.), War, Journalism and History. War Correspondents in the Two World Wars
Peter Lang, 2012; G. Mc Laughin, The War Correspondent, Pluto Press, 2002
P. Patterson and L. Wilkins, Media Ethics, Issues & Cases, McGraw-Hill, 2014; M. Conboy, Journalism. A Critical History, Sage, 2014

Selections from:

− H. Sissons, Practical Journalism. How to write news, SAGE, 2006
− S. Allan (ed.), Journalism: Critical Issues; Open University Press, 2005
− D. Hallin and P. Manchini, Comparing media systems: three models of media and politics. Cambridge UP, 2004
− C. Valentini and G. Nesti (eds.) Public Communications in the European Union. History, Perspectives and Challenges.
Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010