Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 year
Our alumni are highly successful journalists who excel at all forms of multi-platform digital storytelling, including TV, radio, podcast, web and social media content.
Journalistic reporting and storytelling requires expertise in creating and publishing multi-platform content, alongside a solid grasp of traditional skills and knowledge - take this degree and you’ll develop both.
You will harness your knowledge in our newsrooms and out in the city during our production news days. You'll also work with a team to publish your content on Sheffield Wire – a real, public-facing news website with its own social media channels.
You'll apply your learning in a huge variety of ways: news writing, web publishing, shorthand, social media management, audio, podcasts, short-form and long-form video production and presentation skills alongside media law and ethics - all in the process of hunting down and creating and producing stories to meet real-time deadlines with your team.
As well as the core reporting skills required by employers, you’ll also be exposed to innovative journalism techniques, including ethical and appropriate use of AI, which will put you a step ahead when it comes to landing your first job.
The course is accredited by the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) and is renowned within the industry as one of the best in the UK. Our course provides you with optionality within this NCTJ accreditation. We'll give you access to international, national and regional news providers across a myriad of platforms, including news, features and broadcast, during both teaching sessions and through exciting work placements.
Our alumni are highly successful journalists who excel at all forms of multi-platform digital storytelling, including TV, radio, podcast, web and social media content.
Accredited by the National Council for the Training of Journalists
Minimum 2:1 undergraduate honours degree in any subject.
We may also consider your application if you do not meet the standard academic requirements but you have considerable work experience in a media-related role.
This course requires an audio task which you can record on your phone, desktop or laptop/tablet.
A 60 to 90 second MP3 or WAV audio file which identifies and explains a Yorkshire regional or UK national story, and discusses how the story could be adapted and produced for social media channels, with a focus on storytelling and content.
Please upload this file as part of your application.
Within 15 months of graduation, our students launch straight into roles such as:
Many of them find work in impressive news organisations, as well as local government and the third sector. Workplace destinations include:
Thanks to our industry connections, we offer a huge range of work experience opportunities to students on our practical journalism courses. To see what our students get up to during these placements, check out the #JUSPlacement Blog.
You can also find out more about our graduates and where they go on to work.
Core modules:
Journalism Portfolio
Professional Skills and Story Gathering
Public Interest Journalism
Digital Storytelling
Advanced Journalism
Law for Journalists
Optional modules
You will choose one from the list below.
Sports Journalism
Communicating with the Media
Dealing with data for journalists
Critical Incidents in International Journalism
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