JOURNALISM HISTORY AND TECHNIQUES
Academic Year 2023/2024 - 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
Attendance is not compulsory
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.
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