International Multimedia Journalism

Our International Multimedia and Journalism MA is a practice-focused, theory-informed course. Gain the skills, strategies and theoretical understanding for a career in journalism and digital communications.

Overview

Gain the skills, strategies and theoretical understanding for a career in journalism and digital communications.

Our International Multimedia and Journalism MA is a practice-focused, theory-informed course.

This journalism Master's provides an international context. It is suitable for students from across the globe.

You'll have the opportunity to learn alongside and collaborate with professional journalists. We work with a range of organisations to support high-quality journalism. Experts and innovators in journalism provide a series of challenging:

• guest lectures
• masterclasses
• workshops

You'll explore advances in journalism. You'll experiment and develop new ways to do journalism.

You can take part in projects to expand your knowledge and skills. Such projects include our Civic Journalism Lab collaboration with the BBC.

The course covers key areas which reflect the way journalists work today. However, journalism’s role in society, its methods, and careers are all constantly changing. This course is a ‘laboratory of inquiry’ that will prepare you to negotiate these changes through your career.

What you'll learn

Through creative projects, you'll learn how to produce exciting journalism. Your journalism will communicate with and represent people regionally, nationally and globally.

In both digital-first and multiplatform contexts, you'll:

• produce and examine civic and socially minded journalism that affects real change
• consider ways to diversify and develop income
• learn to build digital brands and creative editorial strategies

In Semester 1, you focus on skills and understanding of media contexts. Through a series of creative projects, you learn how to gather, produce and disseminate journalism. You'll use text, visual and audio web-based technologies.

You'll also develop an analytical framework to support strategic decisions. This will ensure your work is legally and ethically sound.

Semester 2 focuses on creativity and individuality. You'll decide on the knowledge, topics and production skills you want to develop further. You consider how to:

• produce ‘self-branded’ journalistic content
• effectively analyse and communicate data
• produce digital features

In Semester 3, you'll complete the International Multimedia Journalism Final Project.