Journalism and digital media: the Sole 24 Ore Business School’s master’s programme gets underway
Six months of classroom-based training, either in person or via live stream, followed by a six-month work placement. In total, the programme comprises 164 hours of training, spread over 27 days – Fridays and Saturdays – followed by a six-month work placement
Journalism, Digital Media and New Forms of Expression: the Master’s programme at Sole 24 Ore Business School is set to begin in Rome on 20 November 2026. In an ever-evolving world of information, the Master’s programme offers the opportunity to train and keep up to date, in order to tackle the new challenges facing the sector, where multimedia journalists are increasingly in demand. It is therefore essential to acquire new, up-to-date forms of expression and to know how to use new platforms. The aim is to train a new generation of journalists capable of rising to the challenges of multimedia and the technological innovation sweeping through the sector.
Course accredited by the OdG
Six months of classroom-based training, either in person or via live stream, followed by a six-month work placement. In total, the programme comprises 164 hours of training, spread over 27 days – Fridays and Saturdays – followed by a six-month work placement. The Master’s programme is accredited by the Order of Journalists and leads to the award of a Master’s Certificate, subject to attendance of at least 80 per cent of the hours.
There are eight modules on the programme: from print to the web, digital journalism, podcasts and radio, video and TV, political and economic journalism, foreign policy and international journalism, institutions and the media, public speaking, as well as investigative journalism, legal reporting and professional ethics. The course culminates in the students’ presentation of a multimedia project, incorporating all the elements learnt during the Master’s programme. This long-form project will, in fact, bring together texts, videos, podcasts, infographics and photographs produced by each student.
The Master’s programme benefits from the expertise of two academic coordinators with a long-standing association with *Il Sole 24 Ore*: Fabio Carducci, head of the newspaper’s Rome editorial office, and Nicoletta Cottone, a parliamentary correspondent and former editor-in-chief at *Il Sole 24 Ore*.
New languages and ‘social function’
“In a world that is changing at breakneck speed,” observes Fabio Carducci, “journalism needs more than ever to strengthen its analytical skills, clarity of expression and transparency in its interpretation of events. By developing new tools and updating traditional ones, we can meet the public’s information needs within the current media ecosystem and continue to fulfil that ‘social function’ which constitutes the very raison d’être of all journalism in a democracy.”
