Teaching Innovation Experience for COVID-19 Times: A Case Study on Blended Learning of Television Journalism Courses with Moodle

The effective implementation of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in higher education is not guaranteed without serious and rigorous pedagogical reflection. It is essential to maintain an ongoing debate on the effectiveness of the learning process. A debate accelerated by the impact of the COVID-19 crisis and the growing role of virtual and remote learning in universities worldwide. This research aims to overcome the quantitative approach of previous work with qualitative evidence to contribute to the field knowledge. The designed case study is based on a Moodle teaching experience in communication studies at a Spanish university. This innovative methodology is developed within a hybrid teaching ecosystem (blended learning) with the support of a virtual platform (Aula Virtual). The sample analysed is composed of 77 students enrolled in the subject ‘Television Journalism’. The design of an original and novel data collection instrument has supplied various quantitative and qualitative data. The triangulation of four data collection techniques has provided a demographic profile, an activity report, a grading report and a satisfaction report. The findings suggest a high degree of student satisfaction, with the experience and a significant improvement in students’ television writing skills, thanks to the implementation of Moodle.

Synchronous and diachronic angles of the behavior in front of a camera (Bulgarian television practice)

The article discusses retrospectively certain established models of behavior in television news programs. In parallel with this it shows some innovative trends in the behavior in front of a camera. The main contribution of this text is the definition of an up-to-date model of behavior in front of the camera. Its characteristics are derived from the observation of the trends in the current period of television journalism development in Bulgaria; a typological parallel between the European and American television environments is drawn as well.

Television journalism, crime news and sourcing practices: findings from Argentina

This paper presents the results of a research project on the new modes of production of television crime news. The enquiry involved monitoring television newscasts of the five major channels in Buenos Aires City and interviews with news workers. We analyze the news content, the ways of narrating and enunciating crime news on television, the role played by the police in the structure of the news, the emergence of new sources of information and the production routines of crime news. Our findings suggest that most of the newscasts on television give prominence to crime news within their agendas and that its production and presentation has changed as the result of the spread of digital technologies as sources of information.

“Ether” and “broadcasting”: Etymology, essence, characterization of concepts

The article discusses two basic concepts of modern television broadcasting (in Russian and Arabic), their etymology and evolution in the development of television journalism in the system of mass communication. An attempt was made to determine which well-known television tools are primary, how and why the concepts of “ether” and “broadcasting” are identified, what are their similarities, why is there a substitution of their essence and, as a result, an erroneous interpretation. Examples of the interpretation of both concepts by well-known researchers of journalism are given, with the help of which an attempt was made to concretize the functions, forms and contents of one or another phenomenon.

Oksana Pushkina: TV presenter, public and statesman

Despite the multifaceted study of television journalism "perestroika", researchers have not paid much attention to deep analysis of the creative development of Oksana Pushkina as a journalist. Bridging this scientific gap is important for modern television journalism, because the main emphasis in the works is on the well-known program "Women's View with Oksana Pushkina", but its materials have not been considered for the most part until that time. We see only the flowering of the work of a journalist, and for the younger generation of this profession it is important to trace the path of its formation in the conditions of gradual publicity of the media in Russia.

PLACE AND COMMUNICATIVE LOAD OF THE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN WORD IN TELEVISION JOURNALISM

The spread and expansion of the communicative and reproductive, artistic spheres of television requires the establishment of a permanent two-way communication between the viewer and television.Based on the emerging theory and practice of television, taking into account the experience of past years, in the article a) the composition of the script, writing technique; b) analysis of the demonstration process; c) a TV program with the participation of a TV viewer; d) media preparation and tape sealing; e) We sought to retrospectively study issues related to broadcasting

THE PLACE OF TV JOURNALISM TERMS IN THE MODERN KAZAKH LANGUAGE

The article gives a brief overview of the period of formation of the Kazakh television journalism, tells about the state of the names given to scientific concepts in this field. The current language problems of modern electronic media, including Kazakh television journalism, will be discussed. Examples of some indistinguishable, illogically formulated terms of Kazakh television, which has more than sixty years of history, and the opinions of television industry professionals and foreign scientists on this issue are given. The terminological problems of the Kazakh TV journalism are analyzed. An overview of the conclusions of scientists, formed in the scientific community to this day, is given by the terms.

Self-censorships in Ukraine: Distinguishing between the silences of television journalism

This article builds on biographical interviews with public service broadcasting journalists, who have earlier worked for mainstream private media in Kyiv, Ukraine, to argue that journalists, according to their own understandings, engage in several different forms of self-censorship that do not necessarily have a direct relationship to external censorship. I identify and analyse three different forms of self-censorship – pragmatic, ethical and affective – that are simultaneously present in the same professional community of Ukrainian television journalists at a single historical moment, despite the fact that they operate in accordance with distinct logics. Taken together, they offer an empirical basis to challenge scholarly accounts that understand self-censorship as a singular phenomenon. The article proposes some initial analytical parameters and questions for a more nuanced analysis of the empirical heterogeneity of self-censorship.