Entry requirements

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.

After you submit your application, we will undertake an initial shortlisting process. If you are successful at this stage, we will invite you to an interview with a member of the MA Journalism teaching team, who will assess your suitability for the course. This will involve discussing your passion for journalism and any relevant skills you may already have. It will also give you the opportunity to learn more about the course and ask any questions. Following the interview, offers will be made to suitable candidates.

We assess each application on the basis of the applicant’s preparation and achievement as a whole. We may accept applicants whose qualifications don’t meet the published entry criteria but have other experience relevant to the course.

Months of entry

September

Course content

Learn how to find, publish and create your own stories across a multitude of platforms, including web, TV, radio and social media, ensuring you gain the essential skills and knowledge to become a top-class multimedia reporter or producer.

Course description

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, 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.