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Study Details: 1 year 3 months full-time (45 weeks across a four-term model)
MA Journalism: Social Justice Journalism is a multimedia course with a strong industry focus that will support you to develop your journalistic skills.
Focusing on journalism that aims to make the world a better place, you’ll address topics that may include the environment and climate justice, gender and racial equality, and the refugee crisis.
You’ll have the opportunity to work on projects with industry partners, drawing on our close links with organisations such as The Guardian, Vice, Dazed, Hacked Off, The Rory Peck Trust and Women in Journalism.
Offers will be made based on the following selection criteria, which applicants are expected to demonstrate:
Graduates of the course go on to work in a range of roles. Some become journalists across newspapers, broadcasters or online publications, while others take on roles in marketing and communications with NGOs, choose to set up their own publications, or work as freelance journalists across a range of different titles.
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We are committed to ensuring that your skills are set within an ethical framework and are embedding UAL’s Principles for Climate, Social and Racial Justice into this course.
This unit will introduce you to the core practical journalism skills of research, interviewing, reporting and pitching, along with basic legal principles. You’ll also develop skills in idea generation and development, primary and secondary research, understanding audiences and their interests through data and analytics, narrative, editing, and promoting work on social media.
Throughout this unit, you’ll produce a portfolio of journalistic work for submission.
You’ll explore ethical, theoretical and contextual issues relating to Social Justice Journalism including the different ways in which journalists and media practitioners can effect social change. You’ll develop the critical skills necessary to identify societal conflict and inequalities, and also be able to place them in their contexts.
Topics discussed in this unit include humanitarian and peace journalism, journalism and environmental justice and journalism and sexual and racial equality.
In this unit, you'll develop in-demand skills in mobile video journalism, learning how to shoot, edit and embed eye-catching short-form video for social media to build engagement with online audiences.
You’ll develop skills in a range of journalistic forms relating to your chosen pathway, focusing on primary and secondary research, building narratives and promoting your work on social media. This will include developing the techniques required to deliver journalism that supports social change and addresses societal inequalities.
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