Master in Investigative Journalism and Social Media
Campeche, Mexico
Master degree
DURATION
LANGUAGES
Spanish
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Jul 2027
STUDY FORMAT
Key Summary
About: You'll train as an investigative journalist in cybernetic media, combining investigative praxis, digital communication and social media to reveal truth and drive change. The programme focuses on Mexico and Campeche, emphasizing socio-historical analysis, environmental issues, and sustainable development challenges that affect local communities. You'll learn web content production, online reputation management, multimedia storytelling, fact-finding and ethical reporting, developing skills in digital journalism, investigative methods, data-informed reporting and community engagement.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can work as investigative journalists, digital reporters, social media editors, data journalists, fact-checkers, multimedia producers, community managers, communications officers in public newsrooms, NGOs, government and digital agencies.
Assume with commitment and responsibility the role of social communicator, having experienced reflection and dialogue in their investigative journalistic praxis, in the cybernetic media, based on a change in the paradigm of their socio-historical narrative, which impacts on the transformation of the environment, by revealing "the truth so the world can change." (Hunter, 2013, p. 8).
In this framework, it will also be able to investigate and propose solutions to the problems of current Mexico, of a social, environmental, cultural, educational, political and economic nature, in particular the one that directly impacts the life of Campeche and prevents the sustainable development of the society. In this vein, through the exercise of their digital communication skills, endowed with their own languages and with “socially acceptable thoughts, feelings and actions (…)” (Corrales, 2016, p. 61-62), you will be able to communicate periodically, in a timely manner, Truthful and objective the events of public interest investigated, using web content and social networks, tending to achieve an online social media reputation.
