APG5653 International journalism field school

Change and innovation are sweeping through newsrooms around the globe. In this unit, students will travel to the heart of the world’s media industry to observe how industrial crisis and creative responses are transforming news organisations, journalists and audiences in the international context. The program begins online, when students will delve into the history, structure, culture and products of leading and cutting-edge international media outlets. To follow, students attend an intensive workshop to develop skills in research design, methods, analysis and project management. Students will travel to a key journalism city to learn first hand how newsrooms are adapting to change, and to experience journalism internationally. How have outlets responded to the pressures of changing consumption patterns, delivery platforms and business models? What is it like to be a media practitioner in the contemporary era? How are news values shifting to capture contemporary audiences? And are the foundations of journalism in a liberal democracy - notions of independence, objectivity and fairness - changing too? Students will draw from scholarly and popular literature as well their immersive experience to formulate individual research projects, adopting a case-study approach to their chosen topic.