Prepare to work in journalism in political environments with the theoretical and practical backing of the best in the industry”

To enter into the world of politics, journalists must be neutral, manage a low profile and identify the right tools that allow them to acquire information, generate opinion and show the truth. However, they must be cautious not to generate discomfort with their colleagues, especially if they belong to such a tight-knit environment. 

In this way, political journalists become authentic actors and defenders of the truth, both externally in the media and newspapers, as well as internally, elaborating the communication plans of the parties that stand for election at the polls. 

The main objective of this postgraduate diploma is the specialization of the professional journalist in the political environment. To achieve this, you will have to go through a practical case study and the completion of complementary activities that generate specialized knowledge. 

The degree of specialization gained in the postgraduate diploma in Journalism in Political Environments allows the professional journalist to achieve a high level of advanced knowledge and development in the political environments surrounding the world of journalism, in the most relevant and significant aspects in any of its professional lines. 

The experience of a solvent and expert university is available to you in this complete program”

This postgraduate diploma in Journalism in Political Environments contains the most complete and up-to-date program on the market. The most important features include:

• The latest technology in online teaching software
• A highly visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents that are easy to assimilate and understand
• Practical cases presented by practising experts
• State-of-the-art interactive video systems
• Teaching supported by telepractice
• Continuous updating and recycling systems
• Autonomous learning: full compatibility with other occupations
• Practical exercises for self-evaluation and learning verification
• Support groups and educational synergies: questions to the expert, debate and knowledge forums
• Communication with the teacher and individual reflection work
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection
• Supplementary documentation databases are permanently available, even after the program

A postgraduate diploma supported by the best technology, which will allow you to learn in a fluent and efficient way”

Or teaching staff is made up of practising specialists. A multidisciplinary team of trained and experienced professionals in different environments, who will develop the theoretical knowledge efficiently, but, above all, will contribute the practical knowledge derived from their own experience to the program. 

This mastery of the subject matter is complemented by the effectiveness of the methodological design, developed by a multidisciplinary team of e-learning experts who integrate the latest advances in educational technology. 

In order to achieve success in this program, the professional will have the help of an innovative interactive video system, through which they will be able to put into practice the telepractice and learning from an expert systems. A concept that will allow them to integrate and fix learning in a more realistic and permanent way.    

An exciting educational process that will allow you to work in one of the currently most dynamic and exciting areas of journalism"

With professors who are experts in this area of work, this program is a unique opportunity for professional development"

The postgraduate diploma in Journalism in Political Environments is aimed at obtaining a higher degree of specialization that allows the journalism professional to develop their career in this area in an optimal way. For this purpose, we have developed the essential theoretical content that will provide students with the necessary knowledge and tools to transfer into practice, which will be developed intensively throughout the program. 

Work as a journalist in political environments with the backing of the most extensive knowledge in the subject”

General Objectives

• Develop specialized knowledge of political communication
• Examine and relate political communication with social sciences and, in particular, with communication theories
• Analyze the role of communication of political institutions in the framework of contemporary democracies
• Analyze the discrimination factors of collectives in societies
• Identify patterns of discriminatory information in information published by the media
• Determine how best to provide ethical and respectful information without losing the value of professional objectivity
• Exercise the journalistic profession ethically within the political environment
• Determine how the journalist’s relationships with parties and institutions work in order to obtain the desired information
• Discern and filter truthful and unintentional information from hoaxes that seek to promote public disinformation

Specific Objectives

Module 1. Parliamentary Journalism and Political Environments

• Justify the need for reliable and honest reporting
• Examine all the tools available in the Chamber for the practice of parliamentary journalism
• Analyze the different activities and events of the hemicycle
• Identify the usual channels of communication between the press and the parties
• Propose new writing styles according to the platforms, format and technology available
• Analyze the tentacles of power of political environments

Module 2. International Political Journalism and Global Structures

• Determine the role of the political journalist within international environments
• Analyze the functioning of different types of states and how they can act politically
• Interpret the consequences of globalization on the development of societies from a communication perspective
• Analyze the position of supranational organizations and their decision-making capacity over the states to which they are addressed
• Develop, with a critical perspective, the most recent armed conflicts and their impact on societies, as well as their treatment by the media
• Examine the relevance of social movements from the French May onwards, and the information that has been given about them
• Analyze the incidence of the new populisms in the different countries where they have taken power and the means used to achieve it

Module 3. Source Journalism, Professional Ethics and Fake News

• Analyze the current situation of the media in the daily coexistence with disinformation processes
• Identify both organic (parties) and individual (politicians) political sources
• Analyze the factors that have developed Fake News in recent years, looking at the major sources of Fake News broadcasting
• Examine the limits of legal journalism with regard to the preparation and elaboration of information, connecting in the same way with the legal perspective
• Determine the need for continuous verification work, based on what has already been developed by the fact checking companies
• Analyze existing legislative initiatives to regulate the propagation of hoaxes and false information
• Praise the work of the fact-checking and objective journalist as opposed to the media that promote disinformation

Realistic and achievable objectives that will allow you to change your professional future with a much more competitive CV and professional profile”