ZUR734 News

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2018
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 8 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jaroslav Čuřík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Samuel Prílepok (assistant)
Mgr. Aneta Přadková (assistant)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Jaroslav Čuřík, Ph.D.
Department of Media Studies and Journalism – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Bc. Pavlína Brabcová
Supplier department: Department of Media Studies and Journalism – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Fri 2. 3. 10:00–11:30 AVC, Sat 7. 4. 8:30–11:45 AVC, Sat 5. 5. 12:30–15:45 AVC
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course offers basic information about news reporting. In particular, the aim is to familiarise students with basic news genres in printed (and online) media, to teach them how to work with sources, and familiarise them with essential rules of editing journalist texts written by other authors, as well as agency news. After completing the course, the students will have the knowledge of contemporary news reporting and characteristics of genres, and will have an overview of using the genres in contemporary (mainly Czech) printed (and online) media. In the course, the students will also gain and acquire the knowledge for producing texts on a professional level. The course focuses mainly on the currently most frequently used news genres.
Syllabus
  • Basic themes of lectures:
  • 1a. Defining the issues of news reporting, basic terms, news genres used in printed media, and a short news item
  • 1b. News reporting requirements (objectivity, balance, and impartiality), language of news, overlapping of genres, and a news report
  • 2a. Selection of sources and working with them, survey
  • 2b. Selection of topics, relevance, news values, columns and sections, thematic areas of news, and agency news
  • 3a. News editorial team, reporter's profession, organisation of work, routines, and emergency and crisis situations
  • 3b. Journalism and public relations, press releases issued by authorities, offices, institutions and organisations, and press conferences
  • 4a. Impact of technologies onto news reporting and multimedia news reporting
  • 4b. News feature and emotions in the news
  • 4c. Ethics and law in the news and authorisation
  • 5a. News interview
  • 5b. Investigative journalism
  • 5c. Editing
Literature
    required literature
  • ČUŘÍK, Jaroslav. Zpravodajské žánry v tištěných a online médiích (News coverage genres in print and online media). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, 156 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-7589-4. URL info
  • ČUŘÍK, Jaroslav. Nové trendy v médiích I : Online a tištěná média (New Trends in Media I : online media and the press). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2012, 240 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-5825-5. URL info
  • MINÁŘOVÁ, Eva. Stylistika pro žurnalisty (Stylistics for the newspapermen). 1st ed. Praha: Grada Publishing, a. s., 2011, 296 pp. Žurnalistika a komunikace. ISBN 978-80-247-2979-4. info
  • KASARDA, Martin. Praktická príručka písania pre profesionálov. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Eurokódex, 2012, 208 s. ISBN 9788089447688. info
  • TUŠER, Andrej. Praktikum mediálnej tvorby. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Eurokódex, 2010, 368 s. ISBN 9788089447169. info
  • RUSS-MOHL, Stephan. Žurnalistika : komplexní průvodce praktickou žurnalistikou. Translated by Hana Bakičová. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2005, 292 s. ISBN 8024701588. info
  • Mediální servery (kontinuální sledování): https://www.mediaguru.cz/, http://mam.ihned.cz/, http://www.mediar.cz/, http://www.ceskamedia.cz/.
  • Důležitá česká média, především tištěné deníky a online zpravodajské servery (typu Hospodářské noviny, iHNed.cz, MF Dnes, iDnes.cz, České noviny.cz apod.), ale i zpravodajské relace hlavních rozhlasových a televizních stanic (kontinuální sledování).
    recommended literature
  • REMIŠOVÁ, Anna. Etika médií. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Kalligram, 2010, 310 s. ISBN 9788081013768. info
  • TOMANDL, Jan. Public relations a zpravodajství : vliv hluboké proměny žurnalistiky na teorii a praxi vztahů s médii. 1. vyd. Zlín: VeRBuM, 2012, 152 s. ISBN 9788087500286. info
  • MENCHER, Melvin. Melvin Mencher's news reporting and writing. 12th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011, xx, 618. ISBN 9780073511993. info
  • STOVALL, James Glen. Web journalism : practice and promise of a new medium. Boston: Pearson Education, 2004, xv, 239. ISBN 0205353983. info
  • BECH-KARLSEN, Jo. Být přitom :reportáž jako žánr a metoda. 1. vyd. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1991, 208 s. ISBN 82-7147-094-9. info
  • TRAMPOTA, Tomáš. Zpravodajství. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2006, 191 s. ISBN 8073670968. URL info
  • TUŠER, Andrej. Ako sa robia noviny. 4., prepracované vyd. Bratislava: Bratislavská vysoká škola práva, 2010, 288 s. ISBN 9788089447237. info
  • BURNS, Lynette Sheridan. Žurnalistika : [praktická příručka pro novináře]. Translated by Hana Antonínová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2004, 186 s. ISBN 8071788716. info
  • OSVALDOVÁ, Barbora. Zpravodajství v médiích. 2., upr. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 2011, 144 s. ISBN 9788024618999. info
  • Media and convergence management. Edited by Sandra Diehl - Matthias Karmasin. Berlin: Springer, 2013, xxv, 376. ISBN 9783642361623. info
  • Making online news : newsroom ethnographies in the second decade of internet journalism. Edited by David Domingo - Chris Paterson. New York: Peter Lang, 2011, xx, 185. ISBN 9781433110641. info
Teaching methods
Lectures in which students are familiarised with individual topics according to the course syllable.
Assessment methods
The course may be completed successfully by only those students who submit, within deadlines and in sufficient quality, all the tasks assigned in lectures, pass the final test based on the lectures.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2019.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2018, recent)
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