Journalism

Serving as an introduction for advanced courses, this class will focus on journalistic professionalism and practices of the news media. At the end of the semester, students will:
  • Understand the history of journalistic practice;
  • Understand the basic concepts of journalism;
  • Explore the structure and development of news media industry in Taiwan;
  • Explore the key dimensions of journalistic professionalism, including public interest, fact and objectivity, freedom and independency, monitoring the powerful elites, as well as diversity; 
  • Compare the genres of journalistic texts;
  • Explore the ethics, law, intuitional self-regulation mechanism of journalism;
  • Explore the future of journalism in a postmodern society.

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