News Production

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

The lectures, enriched with the analysis and discussion of case studies, are the two main pillars of the methodology. In addition, there will be some open classes attended by journalists. The respective guest speaker will approach from concrete situations experienced by itself, on a topic agreed upon with the teacher, but having always problematic backdrop shown in the program of this course. There will be also some tasks outside the classroom.

Learning Outcomes

Students must be able:

- To understand the organization and functioning of newsrooms

- To know the diversity of journalistic products that characterize the Portuguese media ecosystem

- To be aware of current news issues

- To understand the concepts of different journalistic genres

- To produce different types of informative journalistic texts. 

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. The organization of a newsroom.

2. Main Portuguese journalistic products.

3. Press genres.

4. The newsmaking: from concept to the writing process.

5. News as a construction.

6. The sources in the newsmaking process.

7. The Reporting.

Head Lecturer(s)

João Manuel Santos de Miranda

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Mini Tests: 40.0%
Laboratory work or Field work: 60.0%

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