Journalism for teenagers

There are no homework assignments in the course, which is important given the students’ workload. However, each lesson is an intensive work that leads to independent analysis, the need to think critically, ask the right questions, and verify your conclusions; it clearly proves the importance of a logical presentation of thoughts, accuracy and relevance of every word. Much attention is paid to the topic of reputation and responsibility of a journalist.

From our experience, we can say that all these points become important topics for reflection for the participants and significantly change their attitude to learning in general.

We recommend the course for students aged 10 to 15.

Key topics of the course

• The function and importance of journalism;
• Fact and evaluation;
• Principles of journalism;
• Objectivity;
• Relevance;
• Presence;
• Credibility;
• Completeness of information;
• Impartiality;
• Balance of opinions;
• Significance and public interest;
• Responsibility;
• Speculation and manipulation;
• Television forms and methods of storytelling;
• Genres;
• Specialization;
• Conflict of interest;
• The risk of working as a journalist;
• Language as a working tool.