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Bachelor 2022/2023

News and Information Management

Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'
Area of studies: Public Policy and Social Sciences
When: 4 year, 1, 2 module
Mode of studies: distance learning
Open to: students of one campus
Instructors: Oleg Dmitriev
Language: English
ECTS credits: 5
Contact hours: 32

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Television, radio and online news are conversational media. The international news has changed greatly for the past 20 years. With the help of the latest technological innovations news can be transmitted on various platforms with a great speed. The course teaches students the latest trends in the production and management of international news. Besides, the students will try their skills in a conversational news writing that would be attractive to a worldwide audience. Besides, the students will also grasp basic ideas about 21-st century principles of journalism. In addition they will learn more about key principles of story planning for various platforms
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • The students are expected to broaden their knowledge about international news media and test news writing skills which would give the students the idea about the activities at international newsrooms.
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • The students will be able to analyze international media, news content, produce media text suitable for various media in proper English with full understanding of the way the text is perceived in different media and platforms
  • They also should know basic ideas about various international news platforms, including social networks.
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Unit 1. News consumers: How they perceive news and whom they trust
  • Unit 2. What is a short news item?
  • Unit 3: Planning the news coverage
  • Unit 4. Breaking news
  • Unit 5. Codes of Ethics an Editorial Policy
  • Unit 6. Radio and Podcasts
  • Unit 7: Television Landscape in the Digital Age
  • Unit 8. News online
  • Unit 9. Data journalism as modern extension
  • Unit 10. Alternative media
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Individual tasks
  • non-blocking Work during seminars and attendance
  • non-blocking Final tests
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2022/2023 2nd module
    0.5 * Final tests + 0.2 * Work during seminars and attendance + 0.3 * Individual tasks
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Anand, V. E., & Jayanthi, K. (2018). A Handbook of Journalism : Media in the Information Age. New Delhi, India: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1739149
  • Hemmingway, E. (2008). Into the Newsroom : Exploring the Digital Production of Regional Television News. London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=211937

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Eide, M., Sjøvaag, H., & Larsne, L. O. (2016). Journalism Re-examined:Digital Challenges and Professional Reorientations : Digital Challenges and Professional Reorientations. Bristol: Intellect. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1406720
  • Ермолаева, О. Я. (2017). Mytton G., Diem P., van Dam P.H. “Media audience research. A guide for professionals” (book review) ; Как исследовать аудиторию медиа в современных условиях? (рецензия на книгу Mytton G., Diem P., van Dam P.H. ’Media audience research. A guide for professionals’). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.CE7D8C8B

Authors

  • DMITRIEV OLEG ARKADEVICH