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In this course, we will identify, learn about and practice the Literary Journalism style, which falls within the Reportage genre, and learn narrative writing techniques that help tell a good story without ever neglecting the facts and reality. We will cover narrative medicine, but also neuroscience and podcasts.
In addition to reading and identifying national and international literary journalism texts, there will be discussion and production of texts of this kind, as well as sharing of students' readings, in a logic of group learning, in which we can all participate based on our reading tastes.
Isabel Nery
Online, 15pm, in Portuguese.
7 - 23 October 2025
175 EUR
• Identify News Journalism, Literary Journalism and Reporting, Literary Journalism and Narrative Journalism;
• Recognize Literary Journalism as an antidote against fake news and misinformation;
•Development of aesthetic sensitivity in writing;
• Promote national and foreign authors;
• Conceive a work idea using literary journalism techniques;
Presentation. Reading, critical thinking, emotions and cognition.
From news writing techniques to narrative techniques. How emotion influences our understanding of a text and how this experience can vary depending on whether it is a purely informative text or an informative text written using literary techniques.
What it is, how and who practices it. Its origins, North American influences and Polish references. The Portuguese case. From the pioneers to the present day.
Authors, foundational texts and current affairs. From the classics of Ryszard Kapuściński to Nobel laureates such as Svetlana Alexijevich, passing through Brazil, with Eliane Brum.
From the 80 years (1945-2025) of the text Hiroshima (Hersey) to narrative medicine and other writing techniques to tell the suffering.
Presentation and debate on Literary Journalism projects.
Isabel Nery is an award-winning journalist, essayist and researcher published by Springer-Nature (Our Brain and the News, 2024). Biographer of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (4th edition, 2019), she is the author of several non-fiction works, including Siege of Parliament: when the Constituent Assembly and Democracy were taken by storm (2023), The 5 Men Who Changed Portugal Forever: from the Cradle to Democracy (2022), the reportage book The Prisoners – Mothers Behind Bars (2012) and the essay I Wept on Eve (2016). Two of her books were adapted into short films by Margarida Madeira (The Prisoners, 2015, and Essay on Death, 2019). She holds a PhD in Communication Sciences and collaborates with national and international publications. She is a research chair of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS) and vice-president of the Association for Media Literacy and Journalism (ALPMJ), a topic to which she dedicates much of her research. She was vice-president of the Journalists' Union.
The course will take place at Tuesday and Thursday from 18pm to 20:30pm. Class days are:
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