This Unit draws to address the specifics of freelance journalism, with regard to rules, techniques and modalities. It will analyze the media system and market, at national and international levels, in synchronic and historical perspectives, and the situation of freelance journalism in these contexts. The purpose of the Unit is also to propose and to propose personal strategies suitable for the development of a freelance occasion career, full-time management techniques, determining the value of work, cultivating sources, creating contacts and "client portfolio". The journalistic genres suitable for freelancers and ways of transforming journalistic pieces into long term and far reflecting projects will be analyzed. Project financing modalities, the importance of specialization and reputation, as well as well as promotion strategies through social media will also be approached.
- Teacher: Joana Vilela