Class Journalistic Composition

This Subject intends to function as a theoretical and practical introduction to the exercise of journalism, providing an overview of the contexts (social and organizational) of the profession and the requirements (technical and human) required of professionals. Basic notions about the specificity of journalistic writing and its techniques, accompanied by the development of practical work throughout the semester. Students will also be motivated to perform a critical reading of media/information platforms, comparing the criteria of newsworthiness and the diversity or convergence of angles of approach to events, narrative structures, sources of information and respective attribution, titles, illustration (photographs, infographics), among other aspects.  

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Module 1 - Introduction to the profession 1. Being a journalist: the conception of journalism and journalist. 2. The professional identity of the journalist, agent producing information 3. The reporter, professional witness. 4. The journalistic company. 5. Organization and functioning of the newsroom. 6. News agencies. 7. Stages of journalistic activity. 8. The constraints Module 2 -Values ¿¿and Journalistic Writing 1. Values ¿¿and newsworthiness criteria 2. Sources and data 3. Journalistic language 4. Techniques for construction of journalistic texts 4.1 Select. Hierarchize. 4.2. Relationship with readers: Titles; superleads; subtitles; highlights; titles; intertitles.

Practical writing work, simulating a real labour context. This will be carried out in working groups and the results will be handed in during the school term. Articulation with the Computational Thinking Curricular Unit, thus promoting the application, in a real context, of an integration of graphic content within the scope of news writing, thus allowing work on the news from a global viewpoint.

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