Learning objectives
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The course has been designed to provide students with an up-to-date overview of journalism, not only as regards publications and television, but also many other related sectors, including public relations departments and advertising agencies.
Prerequisites
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Students must have adequate basic preparation from the undergraduate degree (Journalism, New Media Techniques or similar exams)
Course unit content
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The course will critically analyse how journalism is divided into various specialised sectors (daily newspapers, periodicals, radio, television, internet) with a range of responsibilities: editors, senior editors, editors-in-chief, reporters, correspondents, commentators, critics, photojournalists, copy editors. Areas of specialisation that have evolved through the course of journalistic history itself. These responsibilities are diversified on the basis of a range of sectors and themes of interest (local, national and international news, judicial, investigations, news specials, culture, science, entertainment, sport) and various target audiences of the journalistic product: including daily papers and news weeklies, “womens” magazines, periodicals for children, satire, special inserts on arts and leisure. Participation of a number of professionals in a range of specialisations has been planned.
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Bibliography
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General reading list <br />
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Paolo Murialdi, Storia del giornalismo italiano, Il Mulino, 1996 <br />
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Sergio Lepri, Professione giornalista, Etas, 2005 <br />
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Franco Carlini, Lo stile del web, Einaudi, 1999 <br />
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Lorenzo de Carli, Internet, Bollati Boringhieri 1997 <br />
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Aldo Grasso, Che cos'e la televisione, Garzanti 2003 <br />
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Giovanni Sartori, Homo videns, Laterza 1997 <br />
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Emanuele Pirella, Il copywriter, mestiere d'arte, Il Saggiatore, 2001 <br />
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Annamaria Testa, La pubblicita, Il Mulino, 2003 <br />
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Walter Guadagnino, Fotografia, Zanichelli, 2000 <br />
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Susan Sontag, Sulla fotografia, Einaudi, 1992.
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