The course aims at providing the student with advanced knowledge of theory and practice of political and economic journalism, with reference to skills for multimedia news writing

Knowledge and understanding: The course will offer key theoretical tools to understand how media interpret political and economic current events, as long as professonal writing skills for the different types of article (news story, analysis, commentary) and sections of a news organization. Applying knowledge and understanding: The students will be able to write a news story or a newsanalysis for a news website. Theoretical tools will be applied either to review professional media articles or to write original articles during laboratory classes Making judgements: We expect students to develop a critical awareness toward news articles and the way news organization produce them. Communications Skills: This course will give the students the possibility to improve their capability to write and debate in an effective way. Learning skills: This course will contribute to empower learners giving them the tools to gather, select and re-elaborate information about current events in an original writing for a newspaper or a news website

The course will illustrate the most recent evolution of political and economic journalism but will also focus on the professional tools of web newsmaking, through examples and laboratory classes as well

Alessandro Barbano. "Manuale di giornalismo". Laterza Paul Bradshaw. "The online Journalism Handbook". Pearson Davide Mazzocco. "Giornalismo online. Crossmedialità, blogging e social network: i nuovi strumenti dell'informazione digitale" Centro di documentazione giornalistica

-Lectures -Dialectic interaction between lecturers and students: the classroom is a training ground! -Case studies -Guests sharing their professional experiences -Visit to broadcasters

During the course, learning and proficiency will be assessed through active participation in classroom debates and two mid-course written articles (take home). This evaluation will contribute for about 1/3 to the final grade. At the end of the course the student will take the final examination, which will contribute for about 2/3 to the final grade

The topic of the thesis is assigned to the student by the teacher who evaluates the student's proposals The proposal will include: - abstract of the thesis - bibliography (first draft) - table of contents (first draft)