This course focuses on the present challenges of journalistic practice from the perspective of the newsroom. The course starts with an introduction to the present professional standards, mission and identity of journalists in Finland. We will then move on to discuss journalistic practice as one of the professional practices facing the challenge of powerful market forces and audience?s rapidly changing sense of time and place due to the internet.
Working Method:
Participation in lectures (18 hrs) and an assignment (2 ECTS)
or
Participation in lectures (18 hrs), an assignment and a book exam (4 ECTS)
Group size: 20 students. (Priority to the international exchange students of the Department of Journalism and Mass Media. Available also to other students, if there is place.)
Programme and Litterature: to be announced
BINDING registration by Monday February 8, 2010 by the registration form.