Course overview
This course is accredited by the Broadcast Journalism Training Council
What does this course offer?
- Multiple skills enabling you to cover any news story for the web, for television and for radio when you leave
- Teach you to take a story from one medium and transfer it into another – television to radio – radio to online writing
- Learn to adapt and deepen stories; yet work to the sharpest deadline
- A chance to edit video, audio and text into packages to international broadcast standards
- Built upon the excellent reputation of The Media School which has a long-established national reputation for the excellence of its journalism courses and many of its alumni hold senior positions in the media industries
- The School also has strong industry links, including guest lectures by industry professionals
Where could this lead to?
- Go straight into national and local broadcast news, national and local newspapers, national magazines
- Trainee journalists
- Journalists for Associated Press
- Supervising Editor
- Manager of a radio station
- Freelancer, for publications, such as Campaign magazine
- A TV reporter
- A multimedia journalist
- An Online Journalist
- Editor
Who should do this course?
- Graduates from a wide variety of disciplines seeking careers in journalism, with a Upper Second Class Honours 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.
Tell me more
BU offers three distinct Journalism postgraduate degrees including:
In the past two years the MA Multi-media Journalism course has taken three of the four BJTC internet category awards in the UK for excellence in journalism.
This year, graduate, David Murray won the award for the best multi-platform story at the Broadcast Journalism Training Council annual awards presented at the BBC in London.
After completing his MA at Bournemouth University, David went to the BBC as Digital Design Executive in Internal Communications and is now Ad Formats Developer at the internet portal Yahoo!, based in London.
This is the second year in a row that a student from the Bournemouth course has won the multi-platform category, which looks for the most effective treatment of a single news story showing the power of multi-media.
Multi-skilling defines this groundbreaking Bournemouth course– the first in the UK to explore the full potential of multi-platform (convergent) news publishing. It is accredited by the Broadcast Journalism Training Council.
When you leave the course, you will be able to cover any news story for the web, for television, and for radio. You can take a story from one medium and transfer it into another – television to radio – radio to online writing. You can adapt and deepen stories, yet work to the sharpest deadline. And you will be able to edit video, audio and text into packages to international broadcast standards.. Employers are hungry for graduates who can adapt.
Graduates from the course go straight into national and local broadcast news, national and local newspapers, national magazines, and often enjoy an accelerated rate of promotion in their chosen profession. They have a wider choice of career.
Live news publishing, broadcast bulletins across the internet, news stories gathered locally and nationally – all go out from the course news website. Students in professional-standard newsrooms take key roles as editors, news editors, convergence editors, and reporters on the course news website.
As publishers and broadcasters consolidate after the explosion of the internet, core skills are more at a premium than ever. The equal mix of broadcasting and online writing in this intensely practical course sharpens the defining elements of cutting-edge journalism. Your work culminates in a multi-media online documentary project covering a current national or international issue in depth. Meanwhile, the rich mixture of international postgraduates and UK students engage with critical research and ethical controversies at the frontiers of global journalism.
Our selection of students is socially inclusive, and the vast majority at Bournemouth have achieved the qualification they want, once on the course. The course suits new entrants to the profession and those wishing to extend their skills across different media, at home and internationally.
To see our student online newspaper, Bourne Free
