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Course: 2024/2025

Local Journalism
(13458)
Dual Bachelor in Journalism and Humanities Studies (Plan: 414 - Estudio: 282)


Coordinating teacher: HERRERO CURIEL, EVA

Department assigned to the subject: Communication and Media Studies Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course: 5º
Semester: 1º



Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
- News Reporting - Interpretative reporting - Information Skills - Online Journalism
Objectives
- Know how local journalism works. - Be able to search for local news. - Access to relevant journalistic sources at the local level. - Know the dynamics of the local media. - Design and prepare a publication in any local format.
Skills and learning outcomes
Link to document

Description of contents: programme
1. What is Local Journalism 2. An Approach to the Industrial Situation in Spain 3. The Agenda Setting at Local Press 4. What is Important in a local newspaper 5. Press Offices in Local Government 6. The Relationship Between the Media and the Local Government 7. The Local Journalism as a Vehicle for Transmission of the Interests of Society 8. The Impact of Internet on Journalism 9. The Uniformity of Content 10. Facing a Global World with Glocal Journalism 11. Approaches and Genres of Journalism in the Coming Years 12. Social Networks
Learning activities and methodology
- Master Classes - Reading - Development a local newspaper
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 30
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 70

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Extraordinary call: regulations
Basic Bibliography
  • Harte, D., Howells, R. y Williams, A.. Hyperlocal journalism. The decline of local newspapers and the rise of online community news. London: Routledge. 2019
  • Abernathy, Penelope M. . Saving Community Journalism. The Path to Profitability. North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press. (2014)
  • Aldridge, Meryl. Understanding the Local Media. New York: Open University Press ¿ McGraw-Hill.. 2007
  • Alexander, Jeffrey C., Breese, Elizabeth Butler and Luengo, María (Eds.). The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered. Democratic Culture, Professional Codes, Digital Future. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.. 2016
  • Clayton Powell, Adam . Reinventing Local News. Connecting Communities through New Technologies. Los Angeles: Figueroa Press.. 2005
  • Franklin, Bob. Local Journalism and Local Media. London: Routledge. 2006
  • Fuller, Linda K. The Power of Global Community Media. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. 2007
  • Harcup, Tony. Alternative Journalism, Alternative Voices. London: Routledge. 2013
  • McChesney, Robert W. and Pickard, Victor . Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights. The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It. . New York: The New Press.. 2011
  • Nielsen, Rasmus K.. Local Journalism. The Decline of Newspapers and the Rise of Digital Media.. London: I.B. Tauris. 2015
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The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.