Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
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Study Details: 1-2 Years
This pathway on the MA Global Journalism will prepare you for career paths in investigative journalism and human rights reporting.
It is led by Iain Overton, former award-winning current affairs producer for the BBC, founding editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, and current director of Action on Armed Violence.
As well as getting to grips with the fundamentals of investigative research techniques, you will learn to address the complex ethical, safety and funding challenges that are often at stake in this kind of journalism, and understand its unique contribution to democratic life.
Our course content as well as teaching methods are rooted in a conception of journalism’s potential to speak truth to power, and a concern for the different ways in which that is under threat: from disinformation to emergent forms of censorship and repression.
We will consider all applications with a 2:2 (or international equivalent) or higher in a relevant subject.
In addition to degree classification in a relevant subject we take into account other elements of the application such as supporting statement. References are optional, but can help build a stronger application if you fall below the 2:2 requirement or have non-traditional qualifications.
The MA Global Journalism and specialist pathways prepare students for freelance careers and journalism roles within conventional news organisations as well as NGO and campaigning organisations. Students will also acquire crossover skills applicable to a range of career pathways within broader fields including communications, human rights law and politics.
Core
Investigative Newsgathering Techniques - 15 credits
Open
Conflict and Human Rights Reporting - 15 credits
Open
Investigative and Human Rights Project - 60 credits
Open
Compulsory
Global News: Theory and Practice - 30 credits
Open
Electives
Introduction to Data Journalism - 15 credits
Open
Data Visualisation and Storytelling - 15 credits
Open
Photojournalism and Social Change - 15 credits
Open
Writing for Visual Media - 15 credits
Open
Documentary and Social Change - 15 credits
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