We live in a period of continuous change, at least in the media sector. Undoubtedly the structure and the performance of the media systems have changed from the 1980s onwards. This period has been associated with changes in media policy as well as a series of technological developments which have either directly, or indirectly, had an influence on policy choices towards the media sector. Emerging channels, including the Internet, mobile and other interactive media, are outperforming their traditional counterparts and seizing market share from them. In the past, media systems were characterized by simplicity – there were usually only a small handful of public owned TV and radio stations, newspapers were available at specific times of the day and distributed in specific places – but today’s media systems are characterized by complexity; processes of technological convergence and the digitalization have dramatically changed the media landscape. This course examines the changes in both the field of the media in general and journalism in particular. This course is divided into two parts: the first half focuses on the changes and the effects of the changes in the fields of the media and journalism. In the second half the latest skills and techniques for content creation and audience analysis are explored in practical sessions (such as metadata, search engines, cloud storage, data journalism, mobile journalism, news apps, etc.).