Power Relations 1, News ReportingLaajuus (3 ECTS)

Objective

Students gain an understanding of the basics of TV news reporting and its role in society. Students identify economic, social, global and historical connections. Students analyse the status of different members of society and the way society and the global community exercise power over them and classify them.

Content

Understanding the structures of society
Forms of power
Financial and other ties
Media consumption, habits and needs
Principles of news and current affairs work.
Icons and rituals of contemporary news reporting.
Reporting criteria.
Sources and acquisition of information TV news stories: selection, structure and form
Media workers: their work and who do they work for
Work ethics, media power and journalistic responsibility

Qualifications

Media, subjects and recipients
From Idea to Story 1