Journalism on Culture
Objectives
Cultural journalism applies to a vast and heterogeneous field, due, primarily, to the difficulty in defining the word «culture». Its characterization is not, today, dissociable from the context of cultural industries and creative industries, as well as from new technologies, which require a redefinition and expansion of cultural journalism and new skills for journalists. The objective of this seminar is to provide students with knowledge, techniques and resources specific to cultural journalism that will allow them to create journalistic pieces for different platforms, innovative in structure and original in themes.
General characterization
Code
02100099
Credits
10.0
Responsible teacher
Dora dos Santos Silva
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - 280
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Available soon
Bibliography
Santos Silva, D. (2016). Cultural Journalism in a Digital Environment: New Models, Practices and Possibilities. PhD Thesis, UT Austin Portugal | Colab;
McLeese, Don (2010). The New York Times Reader: Arts & Culture. CQ Press;
Santos Silva, D. (2014). A nova dimensão performativa do jornalismo cultural: contributos do roteiro e da review. In Cultura na Primeira Página. O lugar da cultura no jornalismo contemporâneo. (pp. 39–51). Lisboa: Mariposa Azual;
O ́Leary, Amy (2014) How the work of journalism has expanded. Retrieved from https://href.li/?http://www.slideshare.net/amyoleary1;
Fürsich, E. (2012). Lifestyle Journalism As Popular Journalism. Journalism Practice, 6(1), 12–25. doi:10.1080/17512786.2011.622894.
Teaching method
The teaching method has a large laboratory component, where students are expected to create journalistic content, and analysis of real cases.
Evaluation method
Evaluation Methodologies - Criticism or review(35%), Digital format with engagement strategy(40%), Writing a developed story(25%)
Subject matter
PART I
Background: definitions and evolution of the concept of cultural journalism
What is expected of a cultural journalist? Skills and routines.
PART II
Journalistic genres in culture: the brief, the preview, the news, the report and the interview.
Specificities of the sub-areas of cultural journalism
Techniques and practices in the coverage of cultural news, follow-ups and features
New editorial approaches and innovative formats of cultural journalism in a digital environment
Programs
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