Mentor's Seminar "International News Production"

2024/2025

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

3

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Institute of Media

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

1 year, 2-4 module

Instructors

Dmitriev, Oleg

Христенко Александр Викторович

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The Mentor Seminar for Master students on the Professional Trajectory “International News Production” (second module of the first year) is designed for the Master students to work on developing professional skills relevant to their future work and to master the disciplines of the trajectory together an academic mentor. This includes writing news briefs, producing oral presentations and developing on-camera communication skills, conducting interviews, gathering, and analysing facts and previous events in news briefs, formulating key research points for coursework and graduation thesis, presenting research findings to the programme supervisors and leading practitioners in international journalism and at the end of each year of study.

Learning Objectives

• The key goal is to develop students' understanding of the new Master's degree standards, the specifics of the professional trajectories of the Contemporary Journalism programme, and communication innovations in the profession. This also includes mastering the skills of oral presentation, searching for meaningful information, and the fundamentals of future international news production professionals.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• know and understand the issues of the contemporary international environment
• have basic communication skills on-camera, enabling them to produce quality online content
• be able to plan a communication conversation on various professional topics
• possess the basic skills of searching for and verifying information in the contemporary media environment
• have the scientific skills to summarise operational information for research in journalism and international news production

Course Contents

• Introduction to the workshop
• Technology of communication “on camera”
• Specifics of selecting quotations
• Developing a script for communicating “on camera”
• Planning a conversation with experts
• Technology for retrieving and verifying information
• Technology of scientific research in international news production
• Workshops by HSE professors and representatives of the business media industry

Assessment Elements

• Conducting two mini-interviews — as a journalist and an expert
• Attendance and activity
• Recording a story on camera for no more than half a minute
• Activity in practical classes. Presentation of achievements
• Completion of final assignments

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 2nd module
  0.2 * Attendance and activity + 0.5 * Conducting two mini-interviews — as a journalist and an expert + 0.3 * Recording a story on camera for no more than half a minute
• 2024/2025 4th module
  0.3 * Activity in practical classes. Presentation of achievements + 0.1 * Attendance and activity + 0.1 * Attendance and activity + 0.5 * Completion of final assignments
• 2025/2026 2nd module
  0.15 * Attendance and activity + 0.15 * Attendance and activity + 0.7 * Completion of final assignments
• 2025/2026 3rd module
  0.3 * Attendance and activity + 0.7 * Completion of final assignments

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Pavlik, J. V. (2001). Journalism and New Media. New York: Columbia University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=68573
• Ratilainen, S. (2018). Digital media and cultural institutions in Russia: online magazines as aggregates of cultural services. Cultural Studies, 32(5), 800–824. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2018.1429003
• Russ-Mohl, S., Wilczek, B., & Nienstedt, H.-W. (2013). Journalism and Media Convergence. Berlin: De Gruyter. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=604258

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Nicholas Diakopoulos. (2019). Automating the News : How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media. Harvard University Press.
• Roy Bendor. (2018). Interactive Media for Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan.

Authors

• Uvarov Fedor Maksimovich
• FEDOROVA KSENIIA ALEKSANDROVNA
• DMITRIEV OLEG ARKADEVICH