JOURNALISM HISTORY AND TECHNIQUES
Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher:
GIUSEPPE DI FAZIO
Expected Learning Outcomes
According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:
1. knowledge and understanding
Acquisition of tools for the understanding of news communication in relation to different media (newspapers, tv, web and digital media) and the cultural context, today dominated by the big digital platforms.
2. applying knowledge and understanding
Applying the theoretical acquisitions to news communication and blog design. Capacity to attend profitably, on the basis of the knowledge acquired, specific 2nd cycle university courses in the same scientific field
3. Learning skills
Skills enabling to deal with simple news and communication themes typical of the journalism practice, and to learn and update autonomously the specific knowledge required.
Course Structure
Frontal teaching, exercise and practical application concerning: newspapers reading and interpretation (on paper, digital, on the web); writing articles for newspapers, tv and websites; using news historical archives.
Attendance of Lessons
Frontal teaching, exercise and practical application concerning: newspapers reading and interpretation (on paper, digital, on the web); writing articles for newspapers, tv and websites; using news historical archives.
Detailed Course Content
- The main characteristic of traditional journalism.
How to find news / Sources checking / Investigating the places where the real facts happen / How to tell the news
- How News change in the Internet Era.
How to write an article: for a traditional newspaper; for a digital website; for television broadcasting.
- Digital newspapers and magazines
Analysis of the main foreign press websites in spanish and english, with a specific focus on: the website structure; the use of videos and audio files; the financial sustainability plan of the website.
- Fact checking
Fact checking case studies. How to check data or the statements of a given political leader. The checking methods used by the main italian websites specialized in fact checking.
- Photojournalism
Photography in service of news narration
- Investigation journalism
On field investigation. Case study: Analysis of the phenomenon of early school leaving in Sicily and study of educational poverty among minors. The project “Liberi di scegliere”(Free to choose) in Reggio Calabria and Catania.
- The Masters of Contemporary journalism.
Study of the most significant italian journalists, past and present: Indro Montanelli, Enzo Biagi, Eugenio Scalfari, Alfio Russo, Domenico Quirico, Ferruccio De Bortoli.
Textbook Information
Texts:
- G. Di Fazio, La notizia diventa storia, Catania, Domenico Sanfilippo editore, 2016 (e-book : 2020) (102 pp.)
- G. Di Fazio, Giovani invisibili. Storie di povertà educativa e di riscatto, Catania, Sicilian Post, 2022 (110 pp.)
- R. Di Bella, M. Zapelli, Liberi di scegliere, Milano, Rizzoli, 2019, or M. Pennisi - C. Sammartino, Dialogo sulla corruzione, Napoli, Editoriale scientifica, 2019
- T. Bonomo, Il fascino dell’imperfezione. Dialoghi con Domenico Quirico, Milano, Jaca Book 2021, pp. 9-167
- L. Salafia, Una forza di vita, Catania, Domenico Sanfilippo editore, 2017 (95 pp.)
Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.
For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).
All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.
