This workshop is designed for students from both the humanities and communications. Seats are limited, but students from all fields and stages are welcome. In the humanities, workshops usually employ analytical, reflective, and text-based methods; in communication-more practical (hands-on) communication skills and work with rhetoric and media are featured. This post-Soviet media workshop will bridge the gap between these two types of workshops. Students should be excited to learn and engage with the complexities of news journalism in the current era.
Prior to the workshop, materials will be shared with registered students. Participants will prepare by reviewing these materials: watching online recordings of news stories about post-Soviet media and interviews by Mr. Kiselev. We expect participants to come to the session with questions and thoughts on: 1) strategies for effective interviews; 2) journalistic practice while in exile; 3) different kinds of sources; 4) ways to interpret events from afar and in a comparative way; 5) and anything that strikes them as important.
