Journalism

It all starts here. Become a professional journalist, learn how to tell great stories, and how to prepare your work for publication across a range of different media platforms.

Skills

Get industry ready on a course designed with your future in mind. 

During this course, you’ll study the key elements of journalism and navigating the media. You’ll also have chances to shape your degree around your own interests and ambitions, with modules around:

• Storytelling
• Reporting
• Working with new media
• Magazine production 
• The media industry

Learning

Enjoy hands-on, accessible learning that prepares you for an exciting career. 

• Master the art of delivering delivering compelling stories, utilising industry-standard digital tools.
• Specialise in subjects and formats that grab your interest by creating your own multimedia production.
• In your final year, you will develop a multimedia magazine or create an audio-visual web project.

You will be taught by seasoned academics from different parts of the world, each with extensive industry experience at the BBC, Reuters (the world's largest international multimedia news provider), the Financial Times and more. We also bring professional journalists and newsmakers to the campus to participate in workshops, and advise students on their projects and career options.

Careers

Use stories to make the world a better place.

Whether you want to work in print, radio, television or online media, or become a social media influencer, our BA Journalism will provide you with the skills to pursue a broad range of career options. You could go on to work as a:

• News reporter
• Writer
• Editor
• Producer
• Broadcaster in local, national or international media
• Independent content producer

Many Journalism graduates are also employed in communications, public affairs and public/media relations.

A strong understanding of what makes a good story and how to build narratives and press releases is important to the communications and PR efforts of businesses, charities, political parties and pressure groups.

The creative skills and journalistic nous developed over your degree will be highly valued by employers outside of the media industry.