Multi-Media Journalism MA

Course overview

Convergence defines this award-winning journalism course – the first in the UK to explore the full potential of multi-platform news publishing. It is accredited by the Broadcast Journalism Training Council.

With their full multi-skilling, graduates of this course can cover any news or feature story for the web, for television, and for radio. They can easily take a story from one medium and transfer it into another – television to radio – radio to online text.

The equal mix of broadcasting and online writing in this intensely practical course sharpens the defining elements of digital journalism. On the course you will engage with critical research and address the ethical controversies at the frontiers of global journalism. Your studies will culminate in a multi-media online convergence project covering a current national or international issue.

The job successes of graduates cover a range of media as well as news and features – the skills you acquire are easily transferrable to public relations, press work, advertising, multi-media research, and web technical development.

Most of our 200 or more graduates from the course now work in media jobs of their choice and in newsrooms all over the world. They have often enjoy an accelerated rate of promotion in their chosen profession and have a wider choice of career than those that focus on a single area of media training.

Latest success for graduates (May 2012)

MA Multi-Media journalism students this year won two of the prestigious BJTC national awards. Derek English won Best TV News item for his report on Purbeck wind farm. Marta Clayton’s MA project on sites for gypsies and travellers took the award for Website of the Year – making this the fourth year running that the award has been won by students from this course. No other course has rivalled that record. Find out more >>

What does this journalism course offer you?

On the course you will:

• Edit video, audio and text to international broadcast standards
• Undertake a three-week minimum work placement
• Converge content adeptly from one digital medium to others - television to radio – radio to online
• Create cross-platform multi-media packages using the latest web communications
• Benefit from continuous industry links, including guest lectures and hands-on workshops by leading new media journalists
• Run full multi-media 'newsdays' in industry standard studios
• Design a multi-media website and provide and curate all its content
• Creatively exploit emergent social media for international and local journalism.

Who should do this course?

• Graduates from a wide variety of disciplines seeking careers in journalism, with a Upper Second Class Honours (2:1) degree or comparable professional qualifications
• Specifically those who can demonstrate some evidence of prior journalistic endeavour
• Professional journalists who wish to update their knowledge
• Enquiries from non-standard applicants with relevant professional experience are invited, and will be treated on a case-by-case basis.

Where could this journalism course lead?

Graduates from this course would be able to consider future careers, such as:

• International, national and local broadcast news; (UK or international) national and local newspapers (UK or international); and national magazines (UK or international)
• Online content editors, and journalists in any medium
• Multi-Media news producers and broadcast journalists
• Journalists at top international news agencies
• BBC regional radio, or commercial radio, home and abroad
• Web Editors, producers, journalists and digital developers
• Magazine editors
• National multi-media news agency journalists
• Online creative advertising
• Content editors at international news portals
• Commercial radio management
• Freelance work in news and technology websites, news agencies etc.
• International and local Public Relations
• Press Officers; Political speechwriting
• International television reporters
• Digital Media Executives, Content Managers
• Producer/Reporters
• Media Managing Directors

Related courses:

Bournemouth University also offers postgraduate journalism degrees in:

• Journalism and New Media - Study online news and journalism through a fusion of applied research, practice and experimentation
• International Journalism - Study online news and journalism through a fusion of applied research, practice and experimentation