1. Critical ability to analise and select the most accurate source to solve information needs in any context. 2. Skill to manage technologies for managing information. 3. To know the basic work in media and communication libraries 4. Ability to search, select, retrieve, organise and process any document or information source (text, audio, image, video...) useful to create media content at any format or medium. 5. To understand basic countable data and statistics, for managing them properly and offering them to a main audience. 6. Ability to use media and communicative technologies and techniques, at any support, format and channel, including multimedia

This course emphasizes the importance of digital information sources on the Internet, as a tool for the construction of journalistic and audiovisual speech aimed at the truth and explanation of the news and other informational messages. We intend to show why the information should be documented and what is, what are the main tasks of a documentation center within a journalistic medium, where they can be major sources of information and how to access them, how to reuse information already recorded for journalistic purposes, producing new information and, finally, how to organize personal information by journalists. A more in-depth list of the main covered areas includes the following subjects: Lesson 0: Basico concepts about information and communication technologies Lesson 1: Basic concepts of digital information Lesson 2: Information sources for journalists Lesson 3: Information analysis: Quantitative data, graphics and bad practices in the use of non-text information. Lesson 4: Text, image, sound, multimedia: how to obtain, manage and reuse contents Lesson 5: Tools for Data journalism: how to understand, combine, describe and represent big datasets

Acquisition of knowledge (2 ECTS), through lectures, teaching materials prepared by the teacher, online tutorials, readings, and personal study of the students. It relates with competences 1, 2, 3. Acquisition of skills and abilities (4 ECTS) to search, locate, edit and reuse all types of digital content in different media, presented within all formats. It relates with competences 4, 5, 6.