Journalism and New Media MA

Overview

Practical and subject skills, are developed and matured during the optional Professional Placement, which students normally complete over the Easter period. (March/April)

This experience will then advance the development of skills and understandings during the remainder of the course. The Professional Placement is a optional part of the course for students on the MA Journalism and New Media course. However we encourage students where possible to engage in a professional placement, as it enables students to show in a journalism workplace the academic understandings and practical journalism skills acquired on the course so far, including an appreciation of the place of theory in the context of practice. Students could also pursue a placement as a communications or research officer for government and non-government organisations.

Students will also be encouraged to be outward-facing, including maintaining their own multimedia blogs and posting their multi-media websites online.

Entrepreneurship will be developed by using contacts with organizations such as the Online News Association and blogging network contacts to explore trends in monetisation and enable you to meet pioneers of independent website work and broaden the remit of your work to include presentational tasks, such as marketing, graphics, and public relations, or understanding and discovery of new applications.

Diversity of experience - innovative and traditional - is a key driver of the course, and are manifested in such events as organised visits to newsrooms.

The placement is an invaluable aid to employability and there is also an opportunity for students on this course to take hostile environment training.