Class Radio Journalism

Placed on the last year of the course program, the UC matches with other practical Units (Television, Digital and Printed Journalism), each one of them specifically oriented . The two main vectors of the UC (theoretical approach and practical training) allow students to have a qualified understanding of the radio as a specific medium (all along its history, and to its current nowadays presence on the world of the mass communications) at the same time they can learn the tool and procedures of the radio making.

1. Radio in the context of the media
2. Specificities of the radio environment
3. The language of radio
   1. The news and news reportage
   2. The reportage
   3. The interview
   4. The press conference
   5. Editing and presentation

4. Aesthetics of radio language: orality and writing

5. Objectivity and creativity

   1. The accuracy of the text

   2. The enunciation of the text

   3. Techniques for the construction of journalistic text

6. Language and paralinguistic resources

   1. Noise

   2. Silence

7. Internet radio: podcasts, new challenges and the end of ephemeral.

This is a lab unit in which the teacher presents the topics in theoretical and explanatory sessions followed by assignments, so the students can practice.

Part of the work is done in class and another part outside class.

Assessment:

Continuous evaluation distributed as follows:

- participation in classes, including work carried out throughout the school year (50%)

- final work of reportage (50%)

Exams: Exams require mandatory practical work in classroom context

• Albert, P., Tudesq, A. J. (1981). História da Rádio e Televisão. Lisboa: Ed. Notícias

  Arnheim, Rudolph (1980). Estética Radiofónica. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili

  Ganz, Pierre (1995). A Reportagem em Rádio e Televisão. Mem Martins: Editorial Inquérito

  Herreros, Mariano Cebrián (1995). Información Radiofónica. Mediación Técnica, Tratamiento y Programación. Madrid: Editorial Sintesis

  Herreros, Mariano Cebrián (2001). La Radio en la Convergencia Multimedia. Barcelona: Ed. Gedisa

  Meditsch, Eduardo (1999). A Rádio na Era da Informação. Coimbra: Minerva.

  Meneses, João Paulo (2003). Tudo o que se passa na TSF. Porto: Jornal de Notícias