NEW MEDIA NARRATIVES - 1st semester
Code
722011066
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Pedro Coelho
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
By the end of this course, students will be able:
1.To make an interconnection between thought and action in the journalism field, in order to defend a unique form of journalism;
2.To distinguish between journalism and other communication languages, understanding its social role and the journalist´s mission;
3.To understand the effects of the market on journalism, and the path to overcome its constrains;
4. To reflect on the need of quality journalism;
5.To think about TV packages , and investigative TV journalism ;
6.To reflect on the distinctive features which determine an investigative reporter´s profile
Prerequisites
Not applicable
Subject matter
1. Fostering permanent questioning about what makes reporting a disctinctive genre;
2. Understanding the conceptual frame linked to investigative journalism, including the specific profile that defines investigative reporter;
3.Studing investigative journalistic practices on TV and its specificities;
4.Students must be ready for field work;
5. A deep questioning of principles that frame journalism;
6.Understanding the basic technical concepts in order to achieve a superior journalism status.
Bibliography
AULETTA, Ken, 2003, Backstory, inside the business of news, Penguin Books.
CAGÉ, Julia, 2016, Saving the Media, Cambridge, London, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
COELHO, Pedro, 2015, \"A Investigação Jornalística em TV..., in SERRA, Paulo, SÁ, Sónia, WASHINGTON, Sousa Filho (orgs), A Televisão Ubíqua, Livros Labcom, disponível em http://www.livroslabcom.ubi.pt/book/136.
COELHO, Pedro, 2015, Jornalismo e Mercado, os novos desafios colocados à formação, Livros Labcom, disponível em http://www.livroslabcom.ubi.pt/book/131.
GELLHORN, Martha, 2006, A Face da Guerra, Dom Quixote.
PILGER, John (org,), 2004, Tell me no Lies, investigative journalism and its triumphs, Vintage Books.
RANDALL, 2016, The Universal Journalist, (5th edition), Pluto Press.
STARKMAN, Dean, 2014, The Watchdog That Didn´t Bark, the financial crisis and the disappearance of investigative journalism, New York, Columbia University Press.
VÁRIOS, 2006, The Granta Book of Reportage, Granta Publications, UK.
Teaching method
This seminar´s focus is reportage - as a noble journalistic genre, and we´ll intend to study it through critical viewing of some reportages published in different plataforms. Through this method, we intend to deconstruct - piece by piece - the entire narrative. In paralel, students will create investigative contents of their own.
This seminar is mainly theoretical, using investigative journalism as his core.
In class teaching
Evaluation method
60% of the evaluation consists of class participation associated with attendance plus presentations and other works.
The final work, its presentation and discussion is worth the remaining 40%.