Face-to-face , first term, 30 hours of theory and 15 hours of exercises.

First term
Friday from 08:30 to 10:30 at 119 Marais 1200

French

The course aims to :
1) To bring the students to apprehend as well on a reflexive mode as practises the various facets of the journalistic environment (its actors, its structures, its logics, its practices...).
2) To familiarize students with some major conceptual and theoretical frameworks for analyzing journalism practices.
3) To sharpen the students' critical sense of the logics and processes of journalistic information production, of the evolution of the media landscape within which journalistic information is likely to develop, and of the constraints specific to the socio-economic context that currently weigh on this information.
4) To highlight the requirements of the journalistic approach in relation to the choice of information, its treatment, the search for sources and the rules of ethics.
5) To introduce students to journalistic writing practices, experiment with different techniques specific to written journalism (at work in the written press, but also at the basis of any audiovisual or multimedia production) and different journalistic genres.

For the Bachelor in Information and Communication :

For the Bachelor in French and Romance Languages and Letters : General :

For the Bachelor in Political Sciences: General :

For the Bachelor in Sociology and Anthropology :

None

The course “Issues and practices of journalism” address the following themes, objects or issues :
- the journalistic profession (professional status, professional identities, working conditions, changes in the profession, etc.);
- the production of information (the role of news agencies, the hierarchy of information, framing, staging...)..;
- editorial practices and journalistic writing (its genres, codes...) ;
- the relationship to sources (or information in the face of communication);
- the rights and duties of journalists, the ethical and professional aspects of journalism;
- some current journalism issues: the transformation of relations with the public, the question of diversity, the question of objectivity (bias, partiality, neutrality), the new genres or formats of journalism (e.g. narrative journalism, comic journalism, transmedia journalism)...

Description of the lecture course (30h) :
The main objective of the "theoretical" course is to familiarize students with some key conceptual and theoretical frameworks for analyzing journalism practices, as well as to provide benchmarks on the journalistic environment and to sharpen students' critical thinking skills in this field.
The course sessions benefit from audiovisual supports (available on Moodle) and a paper support which will be made available for reprography as well as on Moodle in pdf format.
The course is organized along the lines of the "Translated Classroom" which invites students to read/study the material for the next session at home each week or to conduct documentary research or preparatory work. The time spent in the session can then be devoted to case study, modelling, analysis and application. Students will therefore be expected to participate very actively in the sessions and enter into an active learning role: presentations, syntheses, discussions and peer reviews. The philosophy and organization of the translated class will be explained in detail in the first session and students are invited to read the Moodle explanatory document.
In order to deepen certain themes (journalistic ethics, for example) while giving them a more concrete consistency, the teacher calls on external interventions (speakers from the journalistic profession who will share their experience and reflections on the theme and who will exchange with students), parts of documentaries, videos, press articles, concrete cases from regulatory authorities, etc. All resources mobilized during the sessions are an integral part of the examination material. They are all available for those absent on Moodle.
Students will also need to inquire about current events throughout the course, i.e., a four-month period, in order to be able to prepare a news post or a short podcast news sequence (sound or video). This achievement will be noted (see below).
Description of the exercises (15h) :
Attendance at exercise sessions is mandatory and will be subject to attendance.
The EU exercises part takes the form of practical journalistic writing assignments.
During the 15 hours of classroom exercises, students will be led to experiment with the different writing techniques specific to the written press and the different journalistic genres related to it. Through group analyses in the session and practical exercises (in and out of the sessions), students will be led to practice information research and the use of sources, to determine the choice of a specific subject and angle, to choose the appropriate journalistic genre for the chosen information processing and to write several articles according to the specific codes of journalistic writing.
Finally, the drafting of an end-of-seminar editorial file on a topical issue will be carried out alone or in pairs, outside the sessions and presented orally during a session.

The evaluation has three components:
1) The realization of a news post or a short podcast news sequence (sound or video): 10% of the overall score ;
2) a written examination, in session, on all the material seen in the "theoretical" course: 40% of the overall mark;
3) the writing of articles and participation during the exercise sessions (20%) and the production of an editorial file (30%): 50% of the overall score.
The ticket or sequence must be deposited on Moodle in the "duty" section provided for this purpose by Friday, December 6, 2019 at the latest. The instructions are explained in the session and in writing on Moodle.
Writing exercises and articles will be given during the exercise sessions and the editorial file will be given by Monday 2 December 2019 at the latest (a paper copy in the ESPO secretariat's workbox and an electronic copy posted in the required section on Moodle). This editorial file must also, by the same date, be submitted to the plagiarism detector (see instructions and link on Moodle). Any plagiarism will be severely punished.
As provided for in the implementing provisions of the General Regulations for Studies and Examinations for the ESPO Faculty (Article 6 § 2), unjustified absence from more than two sessions[in the case of this EU, for exercise sessions only] and/or unjustified failure to submit any real work within the prescribed time limit may result in a score of 0/20 on the final examination.
In the event of registration for the second session: the student must represent any party for which he or she has not obtained the equivalent of at least 10/20. The evaluation will be distributed as follows:
1) The realization of a news post or a short podcast news sequence (sound or video) different from the one realized in the first session: 10% of the overall score ;
2) a written examination, in session, on all the material seen in the "theoretical" course: 40% of the overall mark;
3) the production of an editorial file: 50% of the overall score.

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- Estienne, Y., Le journalisme après Internet, L'Harmattan, 2007.
- Grevisse, B., Écritures journalistiques. Stratégies rédactionnelles, multimédia et journalisme narratif, Éditions De Boeck, 2008.
- Grevisse, B., Déontologie du journalisme : enjeux éthiques et identités professionnelles, Editions De Boeck, 2016.
- Le Bohec, J., Dictionnaire du journalisme et des médias, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2010.
- Neveu, E., Sociologie du journalisme, La Découverte, 2006.
- Scherer, E., A-t-on encore besoin des journalistes? Manifeste pour un journalisme augmenté, PUF, 2012.