The course aims to provide students with the fundamental tools to know and do news journalism today, from the role of the reporter to the contribution to investigations, up to research tools. Trainees will then be able to
- Learn how to construct an investigative enquiry
- Learning methods for researching sources, access to databases, relations with press offices, new media resources
- Compare the right and duty of freedom of information in Italy and in the major western countries
- Equip themselves with fact-checking tools in the age of disinformation and post-truths
- Challenge themselves with classroom exercises
- Meet reporters specialising in news (crime, legal, pink, sports, the evolution of reporting in emergencies, from terrorism to health and environmental crises).