ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Communication Sciences
Areas: Journalism
Center Faculty of Communication Science
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin docencia (Extinguida)
Enrolment: No Matriculable | 1st year (Yes)
The main Objective of the Subject is that the Student acquires Knowledge that allows him to understand how are produced the Events and the “pseudo-events” in the Society, how are converted in Information and what steps he must give for the Construction of the Messages and so that these achieve the Efficiency Communicative. The Subject will foment the Curiosity in the Student to know the Turns of the Functioning of the Complex Current Society, the Necessity of searching those Events that have a great Interest for the Citizens, the Criteria of Valuation and the Elaboration Techniques of the Messages.
Writing for the media. The value of the present time as main element of the informative discourse. Study and training in technology, analysis and expression forms in printed and digital media. Theory and technique of journalistic message treatment. Journalistic style elements. Approximations to Galician Journalists reality and to another reference ones. The integral construction of journalistic message and its variants by support and expressive mode.
The Contents of the Course will turn on the study and Capacitating in the Technology, the Analysis and the Expression of Forms and Printed and Electronic Means. The Programme includes Questions relation with the Theory and the Technique of the Journalistic Message.
Theoretical Contents:
The Central Theoretical Contents will turn on the Basic Concepts of the Journalistic Procedure and the Questions relation with the Theory and the Technique for Writing in the Mass Media. The Descriptor of the Subject includes the next Aspects:
- The Value of the Present Time as Central Element of the Informative Discourse.
- Study and Capacitating in the Technology, in the Analysis and in the Expression of Forms in Printed and Electronic Means.
- Theory and Technique of the Journalistic Message.
- Elements of the Journalistic Style.
- Approximations to the Reality of the Galician Journalists and other Journalists of Reference.
- The Integral Construction of the Journalistic Message and the Variables of Gender and Models.
Practice Contents:
The Central Practice Contents will turn on the News Writing Techniques for the Mass Media. These Practice Contents are relation with the Theoretical Contents.
Themes of the Programme:
Unit 1: Elements of the Journalistic Culture: the Communicative System and the Cultural Industry.
1.1. How society works. Who's who. The role of the media
1.2. Galician information ecosystem. Press agencies, radio, television and new media.
1.3. The European information ecosystem. Press agencies, radio, television and new media.
1.4.Teorías speech: the media and the media as to the real builders.
Unit 2: The Journalistic Writing Today.
2.1. Journalists and activity.
2.2. Ethics and journalistic ethics.
2.3. Professional secrecy.
2.4. Binding rules: style books.
Unit 3: The News: searching a current definition.
3.1. As a born news.
3.2. News values or criteria of "newsworthiness."
3.3. Types news.
3.4. Information and publicity
Unit 4: Components of the News.
4.1. The "topoi" and the "law of diminishing interest."
4.2. Structure of the news.
4.3. The wording from the professional.
4.4. The text, context and the user.
Unit 5: The lid.
5.1. Functions and Format.
5.2. Historical origin and current projection.
5.3. Types.
5.4. Guidelines for writing a good lid.
5.5. Keys to differentiate the lid of the intro
Unit 6: The Body of the News.
6.1. The articulation of each reporting unit
6.2. The news type: start-development-contextualization or explanation or background.
6.3. Uniqueness and multiplicity in the news: the issue of subtopics.
6.4. Second model the types of news.
Unit 7: The Headlines.
7.1. Origin and functions.
7.2. Head of Certification and its elements.
7.3. Classification, styles and titration techniques.
7.4. Tips for a good degree.
Unit 8: Information Sources.
8.1. Definition and classification.
8.2. Location, use and allocation.
8.3. Collection, sorting and verification: the paradigm of the three sources.
8.4. Its role in the construction of the messages.
Unit 9: Valuation of the News.
9.1. Selection process and thematic agenda.
9.2. Professional practice and settling routines.
9.3. Organization of the writing and production of information.
9.4. Elements for a current selection and ranking in the information product planning.
Unit 10: Graphic Presentation of the News.
10.1. The page and its elements.
10.2. Typographic resources.
10.3. The new identity of the press.
10.4. The identity of the information in each of the supports.
Unit 11: The Connection between Information, Interpretation and Opinion.
11.1. Type of informational texts.
11.2. Differences between and: the examples of short and billet.
11.3. Treating us media materials.
11.4. The role of editorial principles.
Unit 12: The Influence of the Current Technologies in the Messages Construction.
12.1. Characteristics of current tools and application in industry media.
12.2. The social impact of technological innovation in newsrooms.
12.3. The online media and new organizational model for newsrooms.
12.4. Current technologies and user participation in the construction of messages.
Unit 13: The Influence of the Techniques and Literary Styles in the Writing Journalism.
13.1. New journalism and narrative nonfiction.
13.2. The return of subjectivity to the media.
13.3. Figure writers means us.
13.4. Trends in border areas of journalism and literature
Unit 14: The Role of the Journalist in the Current Society.
14.1. Report, interpret and mediate what happens.
14.2. Specialization, research and versatility.
14.3. Disseminate knowledge on the Information Society.
14.4. Challenges for journalists in the Information Society.
Unit 15: The Influence of the Different Technologies in the Message. The Risk of the Manipulation.
15.1. The message adapted to different communication media.
15.2. The specificity of the audiovisual media.
15.3. The manipulation through the hierarchy and management.
15.4. Deviations of communication: sensationalism.
Basic:
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ARMENTIA, J.I./CAMINOS, J.M. (2003). Fundamentos de periodismo impreso. Barcelona: Ariel.
DIEZHANDINO, M.P. (2009): El quehacer periodístico ante el desafío digital. Criterio noticioso. Madrid: Pearson.
FONTCUBERTA, M. (2011). La noticia. Pistas para percibir el mundo. Madrid: Ediciones Paidós. (Nova edición revisada e ampliada).
LÓPEZ, X./GARCÍA, B. (2009): Construíndo a realidade. Santiago: Edicións Lea.
LYON, W. (2014): La escritura transparente. Cómo contar historias. Madrid: Libros del K.O.
NÚÑEZ LADEVÉZE, L. -coordinador- (2015): Periodismo en la red: Géneros, estilos y normas. Madrid: Editorial Universitas.
Complementary:
DÍAZ NOCI, J./SALAVERRÍA, R. (2003). Manual de Redacción Ciberperiodística. Barcelona: Ariel.
DIEZHANDINO, P. -Coord.- (2012): El periodista en la encrucijada. Barcelona: Ariel. Colección Telefónica.
MARTÍNEZ ALBERTOS, J.L. (2002). Curso general de redacción periodística. Madrid: Editorial Paraninfo.
ROITBERG, G; PICCATO, F. -Comps.- (2015): Periodismo disruptivo. Buenos Aires: La Crujía Ediciones.
SAMPEDRO, V. (2014). El cuarto poder en red. Barcelona: Icaria
The main Objective of the Subject is that the Student acquires Knowledge that allows him to understand how are produced the Events and the “pseudo-events” in the Society, how are converted in Information and what steps he must give for the Construction of the Messages and so that these achieve the Efficiency Communicative. The Subject will foment the Curiosity in the Student to know the Turns of the Functioning of the Complex Current Society, the Necessity of searching those Events that have a great Interest for the Citizens, the Criteria of Valuation and the Elaboration Techniques of the Messages.
The Subject must contribute so that the Student has Competences and Abilities for the News Writing Techniques and the Construction of Information Pieces from Current Events.
The Teaching Methodology will combine Different Techniques ( it will include Theoretical Magisterial Classes, Theoretical Seminar Classes, Practices Seminar Classes, Individual and Group Tutorial Works, Studies of Case…), favouring in all moment the Implication of the Student in his Formative Process. Also, the Student will realize Practices of Laboratory in Classes of Writing Techniques.
Remote activities are planned through the virtual campus.
The Assessment will be Continuous, so there will be a constant Control of the Knowledge that acquires the Student.
The Assessment Instruments of Contents and Attitudes will be basically:
a) Theoretical Exams.
b) Practices realized during the Practices Classes.
c) Active and Positive Participation in the Seminars.
d) Assessment of the Projects or Studies of Case formulated along the Course.
If the face-to-face exam is not possible, the final evaluation will be the result of continuous evaluation throughout the semester.
The Student will have to devote 51 Hours of Presence Work and 99 Hours of Preparation Work and Realization of the Programmed Activities.
- Control of the Present Time in the Mass Media, Control of the Programmed Activities and Control of the Material that will be actualized in the Page of the Subject (www.novosmedios.org/periodismo) and virtual USC.
Contingency plan
In accordance with the three scenarios that the USC contemplates due to the health emergency, the teaching methodology will be gradually adapted by combining face-to-face and virtual or only-virtual teaching initiatives, through the e-learning platform (in the third scenario it will be all virtual).
Regarding the assessment system, if face-to-face examination on campus is not possible, ir will be continuous, through different initiatives programmed throughout the four-month period.
Xose Lopez Garcia
Coordinador/a- Department
- Communication Sciences
- Area
- Journalism
- Phone
- 881816536
- xose.lopez.garcia [at] usc.gal
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Hermenegildo José Casas García
- Department
- Communication Sciences
- Area
- Journalism
- j.casas [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: LOU (Organic Law for Universities) Associate University Professor
Ángel Antonio Vizoso García
- Department
- Communication Sciences
- Area
- Journalism
- Phone
- 881816544
- angel.vizoso [at] usc.gal
- Category
- Ministry Pre-doctoral Contract
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| 05.18.2021 10:00-14:00 | Expositivo 1 | Classroom 1 |
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| 06.29.2021 10:00-14:00 | Expositivo 1 | Classroom 1 |