The Economics and Organization of Journalism

About this programme

What factors shape contemporary journalism? Free standing course, also part of Master's Programme in Journalism first semester. The course provides an overall understanding of the economic and organizational factors that shape contemporary journalism. Research on public service versus commercial journalism is being noted, as well how different forms of financing and payment models affect journalism's content and production processes. The course also includes research on the impact of technology on the news media's organization and editorial structures. - explain the historical relationship between journalism and various economic and organizationa terms, - critically and systematically analyze and interpret the relationship between journalism and various economic and organizational conditions, as well as how technological change has affected systems for the production of journalism and content. This course run half pace (50%) second half of the semester "Period 2". Courses of this nature usually have one or two days per week with lectures/seminars. This is to enable students - if schedule permits - to also take another advanced level course parallell. Courses second half of the Fall Semester typically start late October/early November and run past New Year until mid January. Teaching consists of lectures and seminars. Course requirements: seminars are mandatory elements of the course. Take home exam. This form of exam is typically a longer text that you get for instance a week to write in an academic style with proper references.