This course aims at triggering informed class discussions whilst confronting students with main challenges that journalism faces today.

Students should be able to:

i) identify and understand the role of journalists in the media arena;

ii) know different ways of accessing the profession and to lifelong learning;

iii) critically think about media social responsibility and the role of regulation in journalistic procedures;

iv) understand the effects of fragmented audiences on journalistic work;

v) access the main technological transformations and its implications on journalistic practices;

vi) discuss the quality of journalism under demanding needs for journalistic multitasking;

vii) discuss the role of journalism in the construction of citizenship.