Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 year
Journalism today is shaped by global forces: digital transformation, new technologies, shifting political contexts, and challenges to press freedom and public trust.
On this course, you’ll explore how journalism operates across borders and cultures, and how it responds to the challenges presented by disinformation, artificial intelligence (AI), censorship, political conflict and inequality.
Alongside critical analysis, you’ll build digital skills that are essential in today’s media landscape. You’ll work with different types of data to analyse news content, audiences and producers, and learn how to interpret and present complex findings clearly. Training in multimedia storytelling will give you the ability to share insights through engaging formats across text, audio, video and digital platforms.
The course places strong emphasis on communication. You’ll practise presenting your own research and ideas to different audiences, whether academic, professional, policy-focused or the general public, and learn how to adapt your work for diverse contexts and platforms.
By the end of the course, you’ll be confident not only in researching global journalism, but also in demonstrating its relevance beyond the classroom.
Minimum 2:1 undergraduate honours degree in any subject.
Within 15 months of graduation, our students launch straight into roles such as:
Many of them find work in private companies, local government, the third sector and news organisations. Workplace destinations include:
Find out more about our graduates and where they go on to work.
Core modules:
Dissertation
Digital Journalism
Writing for the media
Journalism in Britain
Global Journalism, Media and Communication Ethics
Understanding Global News
Research Methods
Optional modules:
Journalism and Society
Weaponisation of the media: abuses of the principle of publicity
Media freedom: European, UK and US perspectives
The Use (and Abuse) of Radio and Digital Technologies in Conflict-Affected Areas
Critical Incidents in International Journalism
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