Class History of Media and Investigative Journalism

How to investigate the past journalistically? Using concrete cases, this course seeks to reconcile the practice of historical investigative journalism with the history of the media. The mysteries of the historical past remain one of the most attractive topics for journalists, and relevant historical events often make the front pages of newspapers and magazines and are the subject of documentary television series and even radio podcasts. To explore the historical past, it is necessary to turn to the media that first told these stories: from paintings to engravings; from newspapers to history books; from photographs to current affairs films: from documentary archives to personal collections. Through practical investigative journalism and research in documentary, photographic and film archives, you will gain an understanding of the history of the media in Portugal.

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1 - What is Historical Investigative Journalism? 1.1 Historical investigative journalism as a new academic field. 1.2Analysis of notable historical investigative journalism in Portugal. 1.3Who are investigative journalists specialising in contemporary history? 2- Practices of historical investigative journalism and media history 2.1 Painting and engraving as historical representations of documentary sources for journalism. Analysing examples of their use in television documentaries. 2.2 Photographs and history. The use of photographs in journalistic research. How to interpret a photograph directly? How to read context and authorship? Different techniques for using photographs in documentaries. The 'Ken Burns effect' and photo colouring techniques. 2.3 How to research and use factual films and archive images in journalistic investigations.

Methods for online research of film and photographic images. Innovative filming and photographic techniques for documentary use. New approaches to digital research using artificial intelligence. The use of algorithms to analyse large amounts of historical data.

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