Course Details

1. Apply theoretical knowledge and develop writing skill
2. Analyse facts, research and prioritise information and articles
3. Evaluate facts and gather news.
4. Interact and work successfully in a team.
5. Create and publish at specific intervals newspapers as a team and on an individual base

Writing for a newspaper. Skills and abilities, Newspaper, layout and design

How to collect facts, effective utilisation and evaluation of sources,

Working as a team to produce a newspaper, roles and responsibilities

Writing life- style features.

Gathering of news, spicing up the facts, limits and liabilities

Titles, photos selection, Columns

Weekly and daily newspapers, Readership and advertisement

Political features

Journalistic Hype, Lies and constructed reality

• Module reader compiled by the Lecturer

• Μayer, Μ.(1993), Making News, Βοστώνη, Harvard Business School Press
• Μπασαντής, Δ. και Στράτος, Κ. (1991), Ο κόσμος των ειδήσεων, Αθήνα, Γνώση
• Poulet, B. (2010) Το τέλος των εφημερίδων , Αθήνα, Πόλις
• Keeble,R, (2005) Print Journalism, a critical introduction,Λονδίνο, Routledge
• Κομiνης, Λ.(1991) Τα μυστικά της Δημοσιογραφίας, Αθήνα, Καστανιώτης

The taught part of course is delivered to the students by means of lectures, conducted with the help of computer presentations. Lecture notes and presentations are available through the web for students to use in combination with the textbooks.

Lectures are supplemented with workshop techniques and in-class exercises