Multi-Media Journalism MA

Course content

Terms one and two

Reporting Skills: News & Features

Alerts you to the need for accurate fair reporting and teaches you how to develop news sense and impact.

Digital Broadcasting Core Skills

Teaches the essential methods and research and recording for all kinds of local and national journalism. Focuses on writing, research and editing as well as dynamic interviewing.

Digital Broadcasting

Develops the key techniques of radio and television broadcasting using traditional and emerging digital formats. You will develop the competences needed to join either a traditional media news company or one based around online activities globally.

Convergence Journalism

This unit allows you to experiment with digital convergence and publish in multi-media, including experience of news roles of editing and sub-editing, and producing broadcast for the web.

Legal and Ethical Context

Provides a critical understanding of media regulation, issues relating to press and broadcasting freedoms, and varying approaches to the role of journalism and journalists, their ethical dilemmas and professional codes of conduct.

Frontiers in Journalism

You will discuss the role and development of journalism in the new century as it goes through some of the biggest impacts of technology and social change ever, and as globalisation takes wing in the cyberworld. Issues of local and regional exclusion and social justice, are assessed in the context of technology and opportunity.

Term three

Production Project and Critical Analysis

You will create a multi-media website on a single topic or linked theme. This allows you to explore your new skillbase and lets you demonstrate digital journalism skills as well as research outstanding showpiece journalism in news, documentry or magazine format.