Curricular Unit:			Code:
Specialized Journalism III: Compared Investigative Journalism			793JES3
Year:	Level:	Course:	Credits:
1	Master	Communication Sciences (Journalism)	6 ects
Learning Period:		Language of Instruction:	Total Hours:
Spring Semester		Portuguese/English	78
Learning Outcomes of the Curricular Unit:
To endow the students with competences that will allow them to handle data and information, in order to be able to conceive and elaborate journalistic works resulting from investigative processes. To provide to the students techniques and methods that can be applied to investigative journalism. To study paradigmatic works in investigative journalism. To summarize, it is the aim of this curricular unit to guide the students, so that they can acquire an overview of the value and social, political, ethical and moral implications of the revelations provided by investigative journalism, as well as to prepare them for professional outlets where this area of newswriting work takes place.
Syllabus:
1. Investigation journalism and democracy 2. Investigation journalism and freedom of expression 3. The issue of sources and the concept of objectivity 4. Investigation in the era of ‘entertainment journalism’ 5. The lessons of cinema in the ‘media field’ 6. Comparative analysis of investigative work: to be is to say
Demonstration of the Syllabus Coherence with the Curricular Unit's Objectives:
The programatic contents pinpoint the importance of a theme which still has very little academic research, but which has great social relevance. The module will justify the research journalistic sphere, considering the ethical, moral and political implications. It will also stand out paradigmatic examples and one proposes the revaluation of key concepts of the journalistic practice, such as “objectivity”. It is also proposed the comparative analysis of references in this specialised area of journalism. Using this approach methods and technics to be applied to research journalism will be identified. Also, these stand out social consequences arisen from the content dissemination that reveal public interest secrets and discuss the role of the “sources”. The aspects taught on this module give intellectual conditions and procedures that allow the student to set himself in the perspective of the research journalist, evaluating the impact of editorial decisions, identifying themes with potent
Teaching Methodologies (Including Evaluation):
Exams, projects and oral presentations
Demonstration of the Coherence between the Teaching Methodologies and the Learning Outcomes:
The adopted methodologies focus on the contente analysis and on the explanation of concepts related to the theory of news, which allow one to back up and justify research and its strategic value regarding the media. These articulate exposition, induction and deduction, and develop the right conditions for the student to acquire and back up a consistent perspective about the value of research in journalism. This is a fundamental approach aimed at preparing the student for the professional course in this area of communication.
Reading:
Antologia de textos e filmografia a disponibilizar nas aulas Mouriquand, Jacques, O jornalismo de investigação, Editorial Inquérito, Lisboa, 2002 Rancière, J; O ódio à democracia, Mareantes editora, Lisboa, 2006 Mesquita, Mário O quarto Equívoco, Minerva, Coimbra, 2003 Warburton, N. Liberdade de expressão, Gradiva, Lisboa, 2015