Class Journalism Research

The concept of Investigative Journalism is here understood in a multiple sense: as a discipline belonging to what can be more widely designated as in-depth journalism, that may include historical journalism, data journalism or in-depth reporting and the procedures under its specific purposes and methodological frameworks, and as a particular set of practices and/or research techniques, selection and processing of information.

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1. What 'is seen' and what 'it is' 1.1. The hidden facts and the imperative to investigate 1.2. Journalism as a sine qua non condition for democracy 1.3. Journalism as mediation and contemporary factor of differentiation 1.4. The limits of investigative journalism: legal, ethical, deontological and institutional  1.5. Stories that made history   2. Introduction to investigative journalism methodologies 2.1. Investigative journalism and other forms of research 2.2. The application of the "case study" strategy 2.3. A practical approach to the journalistic investigation process   3. Sources of information 3.1. Hidden facts: from initial knowledge to the decision to investigate 3.2. Early stages of verification: documents and testimonies and sources 3.3. Processing information, verification and construction 3.4. The imperative of contradictory   4. Investigative reportage 4.1. The decision to publish 4.2. Research as journalistic narrative 4.3. Conducting an investigation

The Journalistic Investigation subject will have two pillars as innovative methodologies to support the teaching-learning process:  1. Further development of the case study as a research strategy (planning, data collection and data analysis). 2. Presentation of published investigative journalistic works with content weaknesses that must be discovered and analyzed by the students.   This active methodology aims to promote better assimilation of the theoretical component that will accompany the practical research project.

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