Multimedia Journalism (Broadcast) MA

This course offers a hands-on curriculum that allows you to develop core journalistic skills in broadcast and digital media. Youll learn the technical skills to master TV, audio and digital reporting. The course has a very practical focus, so youll develop your own story ideas and gather your own material through research and reporting for journalistic course work.<br/><br/>Youll be given full training in using our up-to-date video, audio, social media management and mobile journalism resources, ensuring that you graduate from the course as a multi-skilled journalist. These practical skills are underpinned with training in media law, ethics and regulation. <br/><br/>Whether your passion is current affairs, arts and culture, investigative features, travel, fashion, sport – or you are still deciding, our aim is to help you to find your first job in journalism. <br/><br/>We assist students to get work placements during the course, provide career advice, arrange media networking events and keep in close contact with potential employers.<br/><br/>This MA has been accredited by the Broadcast Journalism Training Council (BJTC), which means we provide industry-backed journalism training for online, TV and radio. Our students regularly win BJTC awards, and the course has been awarded the BJTC award for excellence in teaching.<br/><br/>Our teaching staff are highly experienced journalism professionals, and our graduates have gone on to work with a variety of leading media organisations including BBC TV and Radio, BBC News Online, CNN, ITN, Russia Today, Al Jazeera, the Financial Times, Rolling Stone, and Cosmopolitan magazine and many other media houses in Britain and around the world.<br/><br/>There is a strong emphasis on learning through hands-on practice, in small class groups. Most of your assessed coursework will be real journalism assignments and you will take part in a number of mock newsdays. <br/><br/>As well as regular classes taught by experienced journalists on our staff, we also invite other media professionals as guest speakers or to critique student work. <br/><br/>Youll have the chance to air your work on Smoke Radio, the Universitys multi-award-winning internet radio station, or post items onto the MAs own news site, Westminster World.<br/><br/>The course is taught over two semesters, and for the Master’s students is followed by the largely self-directed final project in the summer. Unlike many other journalism MAs, you can undertake an extensive practical Final Project. This could be a TV or radio documentary or a digital project. <br/><br/>This MA can be taken as a part-time course (daytime) over two years studying two days a week after initial more intense orientation weeks.<br/><br/>Westminster is a leading provider in this academic discipline and is ranked top 15 among UK institutions for Communication and Media Studies in the QS World University Rankings 2023.