Immersive learning experience at the School of Communication to strengthen journalistic observation and storytelling.
Students participate in real coverage accompanied by journalists and some of their professors, who are also working journalists.
17 | 10 | 2025
The School of Communication of the University of Navarra includes in the first course an immersive learning experience to strengthen journalistic observation and storytelling. The premise of the activity is that they have to know how to watch and tell what is happening in the world. This is something that cannot be taught in the classroom, and that is why this project has been created, with the financial aid of professionals who accompany them and teach them how to do it. The goal is to learn to look, identify what is relevant and develop their narrative capacity.
The activity, known within the subject of Oral and Written Communication (COE I), as a chronicle, took place between September 30 and October 9, and seeks to promote experiential learning through immersion in professional environments. Students have attended trials, concerts, sports training sessions, parliamentary sessions, operas and news coverage, always accompanied by journalists and teachers of reference letter.
The aim is for students to learn to observe with a journalistic eye, to go out into the field and understand how a story is constructed from reality. Beatriz Gómez, teacher manager of the initiative, emphasized that "the activity not only enhances reporting skills, but also work and the connection between different generations of professionals and future communicators".
A total of 82 students participated, with the altruistic partnership of more than a dozen journalists and professors. Among them, Gabriel González (Diario de Navarra), Miguel Ángel Iriarte and Paola Bernal (University professors and members of the magazine Nuestro Tiempo), Andoni Irisarri and Javi Gómez (Diario de Noticias), Javier Erro (RTVE), Josetxo Imbuluzqueta (Diario de Navarra), Carmen Remírez (Diario de Navarra), Matt Kolff (professional photographer) and Lucía Gastón and Iñaki Llarena (University of Navarra). The students, from Journalism and Audiovisual Communication, previously answered a survey to select the topics or coverage they were most interested in.
During the first two weeks of October, students have participated in coverage as varied as a popular jury trial, the representation of La Traviata at the University Museum of Navarra, a session of the Parliament of Navarra, Osasuna training in Tajonar, the Osasuna-Getafe match, RTVE territorial news, a handball match in Anaitasuna, the workshop of the National Police, a photo chronicle of Pamplona and a concert in Zentral.
In addition, some students have had the opportunity to carry out "shadowing" experiences, working hand in hand with working journalists, as is the case of Sonsoles Echavarren (Diario de Navarra), Andoni Irisarri and Javier Gómez (Diario de Noticias), who have been accompanied by students who are temporarily integrated into their newsrooms.
The program will continue in the coming weeks with a second phase of outings, this time focused on life storytelling in nursing homes, in partnership with the organization Profesionales Solidarios.
