Microcredential in Economic Journalism in Times of Uncertainty

This microcredential offers specialized and up-to-date training in economic journalism, combining knowledge of various areas and current macroeconomic issues with knowledge related to the processes of documentation, analysis, production, and dissemination of information related to economic facts and processes. It is aimed at professionals in journalism and social communication who are interested in deepening or updating their knowledge in economic journalism, particularly in the current geopolitical context, which has placed the economy at the epicenter of the reconfiguration of the global order, and at specialists in other fields of social sciences who wish to train in this subject. Given its interdisciplinary nature, this microcredential is jointly coordinated by the departments of Media, Communication and Culture and Applied Economics at UAB. The design and teaching also involve the Association of Economic Information Journalists of Catalonia (APIEC), the course's promoting entity, which provides a necessary and enriching practical and empirical vision of the knowledge to be imparted. Thus, the microcredential program combines sessions focused on explaining fundamental macroeconomic concepts, topics, and issues, such as the labor market, competition and regulation, taxes and public accounts, or capital markets, with sessions aimed at familiarizing with the origins and evolution of economic journalism, the social influence of economic narratives, the ethical debates that traverse the journalistic coverage of economic events, and the procedures and journalistic routines of documentation, analysis, interpretation, and communication of facts, data, phenomena, and economic processes of public interest, presented in an accessible and comprehensible language and explained with criteria of technical rigor and social responsibility. It includes practical activities for applying the knowledge that will be explained.

Contents

- Economic aggregates, national accounting, and productivity measures.
- Elements of business accounting: income statement and balance sheet.
- Public sector and budgets.
- Fiscal policy and public debt.
- Competition policy and economic regulation.
- Labour market and employment policies.
- Financial system, capital markets, and monetary policy.
- The relevance of economic journalism for understanding major global changes and the need to ensure rigorous, contextualised, and locally-aware journalistic coverage.
- Social functions of economic journalism. Economic narratives: nature, production and dissemination dynamics, and social and economic impact.
- Sources in economic journalism: official and institutional, companies and private entities, markets and stock exchange, academia and economic research centres, trade unions and sectoral associations, etc.
- Journalistic coverage of the economic impact of decisions made by European institutions.
- Persuasive communication strategies with media and economic journalists from corporate and marketing perspectives.
- Ethical dilemmas and conflicts of interest in the journalistic coverage of economic information.
- Practical workshops in data-driven socioeconomic journalism: access, analysis and interpretation of statistical sources, and production of journalistic pieces based on real economic data.

Career opportunities

Economics journalist in general or economic media, both in local and national newsrooms; economic analyst or communicator in press offices of companies, public institutions, trade unions, or third sector organizations.

Scholarships and financial aid

Chek all the information on the possibilities for grants and scholarships in the page for UAB financial aids, grants and calls.

Coordinating centres

Escuela de Formación Permanente

Collaborating centres

Associació de Periodistes d'Informació Econòmica de Catalunya

Contact

Fco. Javier Asensio Ruiz De Alda

Phone: 935812290

Ana Isabel Fernandez Viso

Phone: 935811195

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