The Turin Journalism Master restarts with Anna Masera and Sree Sreenivasan
Will Sree Sreenivasan, chief digital officer of the city of New York, to inaugurate, Wednesday November 23, the seventh biennium of Master in Journalism from the University of Turin.
Named after Giorgio Bocca, the Master was businesses of the first edition of Festival of Food Journalism. During the event, sophomores wrote, on their newspaper's website, Futura, articles and insights on the panels in the program. And they collaborated directly in support of the Festival staff. Now their university adventure has ended, while the Master has already projected into the future: the scientific direction has been entrusted to the professor Franca Roncarolo, while the direction of the newspapers will be up to the journalist Anna Masera, editor-in-chief and public editor of the newspaper The print.
The twenty new students, who will take the Masters in the two-year 2016 / 2018, have already been selected and are ready to start. The lessons will start already next Monday, 21 November. But the official inauguration will be only two days later, Wednesday 23, from 17 in the Aula Magna of the Luigi Einaudi Campus (Lungo Dora Siena 100). The title of the opening speech, which will be held by Sreenivasan, will be "A better time to journalist or journalism student. Thoughts on the future of journalism, media and communications" (simultaneous translation service in Italian). The event will be streamed live on United Media, the institutional platform of the University's multimedia contents.
Before being chosen by Mayor Bill De Blasio, Sree Sreenivasan he was responsible for digital communication for two years at the Metropolitan Museum and for over twenty years at the Columbia University School of Journalism. It was named among the "Most Creative People" in the 2015 by the magazine Fast Company, and the Cdo (Chief Digital Officer) Club identified him as the most influential director of the 2016.
Il Master of Turin is one of the 11 Italian schools recognized by the Order of Journalists: this means that the two-year period replaces the two-year internship period required by law to take the State exam and obtain the professional title. The program (88 university training credits) provides, in the two-year period, 300 hours of frontal teaching, 1.700 hours of journalistic workshops, 5 months of internships (2 in the first year, 3 in the second), a final exam.
