Università Roma Tre

Along with an overview of the essentials of contemporary journalism, the program includes the formation of working groups dedicated to the three major themes on which the workshop activities are most specifically focused: 1) The environment: climate change and biodiversity; 2) Narrating sports; and 3) What we talk about when we talk about artificial intelligence. Each lecture will include practical exercises. Several experienced journalists in different branches of the profession will speak during the workshop.

1) Facts, news, news (definitions, examples); newsworthiness; news construction
2) Speed and duration: hard, soft, breaking, slow
3) Multiplication of sources and verification tools, rights and duties of journalists
4) The investigation and reportage
5) The interview
6) Around and beyond current affairs. Commentaries, columns, reviews
7) Forms and styles of written journalism: paper and web
8) Doing journalism with images: photos, videos, instagram
9) Doing journalism through voice: podcasts, audioseries, radio
10) Collective analysis of final group papers: The environment: climate change and biodiversity
11) Collective analysis of final group papers: Narrating sports
12) Collective analysis of final group papers: What we talk about when we talk about AI

Each student must choose one subject from the three proposed topics and read IN FULL the book indicated for that topic:

The environment: climate change and biodiversity
Rudi Bressa, Trafficanti di natura. Il commercio illegale di specie selvatiche che minaccia la biodiversità (e tutti noi), Codice, 2023.

Narrating sports:
Federico Ferrero, Parlare al silenzio. La mania di raccontare il tennis, ADD, 2024.

What we talk about when we talk about artificial intelligence
Mafe de Baggis e Alberto Puliafito, In principio era Chat GPT. Intelligenze artificiali per testi, immagini, video e quel che verrà, Apogeo, 2023.