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 / The relevance of economic journalism.
- National accounting and productivity measures / Social functions of economic journalism and economic narratives.
- Labor market and sources of economic journalism.
- Competition defense, economic regulation, and journalistic coverage of EU economic decisions.
- Practical workshop on data-based economic journalism.
- Financial system, capital markets, and monetary policy.
- Ethical dilemmas in the coverage of economic information.
- Business accounting.
- Practical workshop on economic journalism.

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

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