Master
2023/2024
Mentor's Seminar "International News Production"
Category 'Best Course for Career Development'
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Compulsory course (Contemporary Journalism)
Area of studies:
Journalism
Delivered by:
Institute of Media
When:
1 year, 2-4 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Master’s programme:
Contemporary Journalism
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
24
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The Mentor Seminar for Master students on the Professional Trajectory “International News Production” (second module of the first year) is designed for the Master students to work on developing professional skills relevant to their future work and to master the disciplines of the trajectory together an academic mentor. This includes writing news briefs, producing oral presentations and developing on-camera communication skills, conducting interviews, gathering, and analysing facts and previous events in news briefs, formulating key research points for coursework and graduation thesis, presenting research findings to the programme supervisors and leading practitioners in international journalism and at the end of each year of study.
Learning Objectives
- The key goal is to develop students' understanding of the new Master's degree standards, the specifics of the professional trajectories of the Contemporary Journalism programme, and communication innovations in the profession. This also includes mastering the skills of oral presentation, searching for meaningful information, and the fundamentals of future international news production professionals.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- know and understand the issues of the contemporary international environment
- have basic communication skills on-camera, enabling them to produce quality online content
- be able to plan a communication conversation on various professional topics
- possess the basic skills of searching for and verifying information in the contemporary media environment
- have the scientific skills to summarise operational information for research in journalism and international news production
Course Contents
- Introduction to the workshop
- Technology of communication “on camera”
- Specifics of selecting quotations
- Developing a script for communicating “on camera”
- Planning a conversation with experts
- Technology for retrieving and verifying information
Assessment Elements
- Conducting two mini-interviews — as a journalist and an expert
- Attendance and activity
- Activity in practical classes. Presentation of achievements
- Completion of final assignments
- Recording a story on camera for no more than half a minute
Interim Assessment
- 2023/2024 2nd module0.2 * Attendance and activity + 0.5 * Conducting two mini-interviews — as a journalist and an expert + 0.3 * Recording a story on camera for no more than half a minute
- 2023/2024 4th module0.3 * Activity in practical classes. Presentation of achievements + 0.1 * Attendance and activity + 0.1 * Attendance and activity + 0.5 * Completion of final assignments
- 2024/2025 2nd module0.15 * Attendance and activity + 0.15 * Attendance and activity + 0.7 * Completion of final assignments
- 2024/2025 3rd module0.3 * Attendance and activity + 0.7 * Completion of final assignments
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Pavlik, J. V. (2001). Journalism and New Media. New York: Columbia University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=68573
- Ratilainen, S. (2018). Digital media and cultural institutions in Russia: online magazines as aggregates of cultural services. Cultural Studies, 32(5), 800–824. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2018.1429003
- Russ-Mohl, S., Wilczek, B., & Nienstedt, H.-W. (2013). Journalism and Media Convergence. Berlin: De Gruyter. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=604258
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Nicholas Diakopoulos. (2019). Automating the News : How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media. Harvard University Press.
- Roy Bendor. (2018). Interactive Media for Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan.