The training objective of the Reportage workshop is to delve into the history of investigative journalism, through the technical, aesthetic, and political analysis of two famous reportages. Students will also experience, firsthand, the design and writing of their own reportage, on a topic agreed with the professor, to be developed in synergy with the group of colleagues in the course. The workshop is thus divided into two parts: after an initial phase of in-depth historical and stylistic study on reportage, as a hybrid form straddling journalism, photography, and literature, we will move on to the assignment of individual work. The learning outcome involves the writing of an individual reportage and its eventual publication on the Stori3 website. During the workshop, meetings with reporters, photojournalists and investigative journalists are planned.
teacher profile teaching materials
Walter Siti, Il realismo è l’impossibile. Con una palinodia 2023, nuova edizione, Nottetempo, Rome 2024.
Christopher Vogler, The Writer’s Journey. Mythic Structure for Writers, Michael Wiese Productions, 3rd ed., Studio City (CA) 2007.
Claudio Giunta, Come non scrivere. Consigli ed esempi da seguire, trappole e scemenze da evitare quando si scrive in italiano, Utet, Milan 2018
Programme
Writing a reportage: history of the genre, technical writing analysis; design and conception.Core Documentation
Walter Benjamin, “The Storyteller. Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov,” in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn, Schocken Books, New York 1968.Walter Siti, Il realismo è l’impossibile. Con una palinodia 2023, nuova edizione, Nottetempo, Rome 2024.
Christopher Vogler, The Writer’s Journey. Mythic Structure for Writers, Michael Wiese Productions, 3rd ed., Studio City (CA) 2007.
Claudio Giunta, Come non scrivere. Consigli ed esempi da seguire, trappole e scemenze da evitare quando si scrive in italiano, Utet, Milan 2018
Reference Bibliography
Riccardo Staglianò, Scrivere dal vero. Manuale di giornalismo narrativo, Sellerio, Palermo 2025Attendance
Mandatory attendance. To obtain eligibility, it is necessary to have attended 80% of the classes.Type of evaluation
"Subjects of evaluation will be: the preliminary research work, the organization of materials (interviews, studies, photo reports), the design and the final writing of the reportage."