Journalism MA

Why study MA/MSc Journalism: Digital, Broadcast, News, Features & Magazines​ at Goldsmiths

This MA gives you a blend of the essential practical knowledge and theoretical skills to work as a journalist for multiple audiences across myriad platforms: online, in print and in broadcast.

Working in specialisms that reflect the major strands of journalism practised around the world, you will have options that extend your knowledge and abilities and in your final project you will showcase your professional level work.

You will choose one of these specialist strands:

* Features and magazine journalism – writing short and long features for print and online and working in groups to create a magazine brand

* Digital Journalism – cutting edge digital tools, data and AI investigations, coding and web development, interactive storytelling

* Broadcast Journalism – audio and visual broadcast techniques for storytelling across multiple platforms

Your studies will combine foundational and fact-based journalistic skills with contemporary multimedia approaches to enable students to enter the workplace with the right abilities and the confidence to succeed in the professional environment. These are transferable skills across a wide range of journalistic and media roles.

You will be taught the latest creative and technical expertise to produce and present compelling multimedia journalistic content in an online environment, whether it is digital or broadcast, magazines or using data and AI to verify and tell stories. You will have the opportunity to take options in media law and politics, data and forensic journalism and how to create news and short features for video and make innovative and information podcasts.

You will discover how different mediums dictate how you create a story and how to adapt your style of reporting to reflect the nature of the platform. You will learn how to interview and ask the right questions of anyone, anywhere and in any context, including those in power. 

You will gain hands-on experience by working in a reporting and editing team for EastlondonLines. This live online news site is run from the School and covers a large and diverse area of East and South London, enabling you to create a portfolio of published work for your CV.

You will complete a final major journalistic project. Depending on the focus of your project, you will be awarded either an MA or an MSc on successful completion of the programme. MA projects will demonstrate a practice-led approach with a critical-creative focus, whereas MSc projects will take a research-led approach and have an analytical focus.

This programme is for globally minded, politically engaged students who are interested in critical and decolonial approaches to journalistic practice. You will be taught by expert academics in the world-leading School of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies which has been ranked second in the UK for 'world-leading or internationally excellent' research (Research Excellence Framework, 2021) and 16th in the world (third in the UK) in the 2024 QS World Rankings.

You will be introduced to wider journalistic networks. We have high-profile guest speakers and industry experts contributing to many aspects of the programme. We also have close connections with the Centre for Investigative Journalism, Airwars and Forensic Architecture, all based at Goldsmiths. 

You will receive expert guidance on your future career and our journalism alumni are working across the national and international media, for organisations around the world. They are the best evidence of the success of our programmes. This is your opportunity to join them.