Journalism Project

Journalism Project

Becoming an adult is not a task; it is a process that comes through everyday life experience. Giving students the opportunity to live experiences such as the Journalism Project allows them to act and work as adults.

This three-year-cycle project aims to support our students in developing their writing and creative skills, enhance their knowledge about democracy and politics and facilitate their entrance into the world of work. Thanks to the creation of some TV news reports, our students won second place at the 2015 international competition Giornalisti nell’Erba with a two-language news report (English and Italian). In May 2016, the first school newspaper was printed under the name of Ghianda Standard.

The three-year-cycle project has been developed in the following way:

1^st year – Broadcast news reports
a) Theory of television broadcast journalism

Journalism and democracy
Tasks of journalism
What is news: the 5Ws
Sources and news agencies
Structure and characteristics of news reports
Interviewing
Editorial slang
The television news report
Viewing and analysing news reports
History of television journalism

b) Writing news

Class news report in Italian (writing stand-up and voiceover, recording and interviewing, editing)
Class news report in English (writing stand-up, voiceover, recording and interviewing, editing)
Individual news report in English or Italian (writing stand-up, voiceover, recording and interviewing, editing)

2^nd year – Newspaper journalism

a) Theory of newspaper journalism