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Study Details: 1 year
Our MA in News Journalism offers a bridge from undergraduate study to employment. The intense course covers the practical skills needed to become a multimedia journalist with students also sitting the NCTJ gold-standard diploma exams.
Accredited by the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ), our MA in News Journalism gives you the opportunity to learn the basics of how to find, produce, and publish a story using the most effective and relevant tools available.
It is an intensive year-long course during which you’ll be taught how to:
Write news and features
Create multimedia packages
Research stories
Build up contacts, and
Work a news patch you will be allocated.
As well as written reporting skills, you’ll learn how to take stills and shoot short videos on mobile and create data infographics suitable to upload to our public-facing news site The Cardiffian. You will also learn how to promote those stories using social media.
In order to be considered for an offer for this programme you will need to meet all of the entry requirements. Your application will not be progressed if the information and evidence listed is not provided.
With your online application you will need to provide:
A copy your degree certificate and transcripts which show you have achieved a 2:2 honours degree in any subject, or an equivalent international degree. If your degree certificate or result is pending, please upload any interim transcripts or provisional certificates.
A copy of your IELTS certificate with an overall score of 7.5 with 7.5 in all subskills, or evidence of an accepted equivalent. Please include the date of your expected test if this qualification is pending. If you have alternative acceptable evidence, such as an undergraduate degree studied in the UK, please supply this in place of an IELTS.
A reference (academic or professional) which demonstrate your suitability for the programme. Ideally these should be obtained before you apply and will be required before we are able to make a decision on your application. References should be signed, dated and less than six months old at the time you submit your application.
For fees and funding options, please visit website to find out more
The range of careers open to those who succeed on this course includes reporting for online providers, from the BBC to local start-ups, and various news organisations with print and online operations in Britain and abroad.
Graduates typically work for local and national organisations, news websites, blogs, news agencies and PR agencies.
Core Modules:
Major Project
Public Administration
Reporters and the Reported
News Reporting and Production
Media Law and Ethics
Data Journalism
Professional Development
News Journalism
Optional Modules:
Lifestyle and Consumer Journalism
Political Reporting
Sports Journalism
Investigative Journalism
Environmental and Scientific Journalism
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