This discipline seeks to offer a general comprehension of the journalistic field regarding its morphology, structure, actors' practices and the logics of production-circulation-reception of information. In the end of the curricular unit, students should be able to: understand journalism as a field of scientific research and professional activity; know the similarities and specificities of print, television and digital journalism; understand the main concepts and theories of journalism studies; discuss the main challenges of contemporary journalism as regards the question of "truth" and the relations between mediatic and political fields; understand the impact of the digital environment on the definition of journalistic production and on the relationship between society and journalism.