Journalism MA

Program Overview

This journalism program focuses on developing skills in newsgathering, verification, and content creation. Students explore digital news innovation, business models, and entrepreneurial mindset. The program culminates in a substantial journalistic project or product/service, preparing graduates for careers in journalism, content creation, and related fields.

Program Outline

Creative Professional Practice

• Explores key political, regulatory and creative issues affecting journalists
• Develops skills in newsgathering, verification and ideas generation
• Produce a social media digest of verified trending news stories
• Produce news content that includes original data analysis
• 30 credits
• Mobile Journalist
• Focuses on digital news innovators reporting in the field
• Gain fluency in key creative tools and strategic approaches
• Explores effects of these technologies and processes
• Develop an entrepreneurial mindset
• 30 credits
• Journalism Innovation and Enterprise
• Examines a range of business models
• Creates a proposal for a viable news media service
• Considers essential components like branding and financial planning
• 30 credits
• Audiovisual Storytelling
• Develops technical expertise, confidence and flexibility
• Train in video, photography, audio recording, and mixing/editing
• Produce original editorial content and a podcast on a legal/ethical/regulatory challenge to media freedom
• 30 credits
• Final Major Project
• Conception, plan and execute a substantial journalistic artifact or product/service on a platform of choice
• Encouraged to follow story beats you may be developing for future professional practice

Careers

• Graduates can work professionally as journalists