Program Overview
This one-year MA Journalism program equips students with practical skills and expertise in multi-platform journalism, including TV-video, online, radio-podcast, and social media. Graduates have successfully entered the media industry, working for organizations such as the BBC, ITN, and STV. The program combines lectures by media professionals with hands-on workshops and independent study.
Program Outline
You will learn to develop a range of practical skills along with reporting and production expertise for TV-video, online, radio-podcast, social media, newspapers, magazines and more. We also support and encourage students to start publishing and broadcasting their own work during the course. Recent graduates have gone on to work for media organisations such as the BBC, ITN, STV and across the newspaper and publishing industry as well as public relations, marketing and corporate communications. Typical entry point to this course is in September. You will draft news reports – court, crime, hard news and human interest. You will produce long-form features, supply criticism and analysis in columns, Op Eds and blogs, podcast and pitch to commissioning editors. You will debate and analyse academic theory on the media and news values. You will complete the programme by producing a Major Project, an in-depth piece of journalism either video or audio, text or online.
Teaching:
This is a one year (full-time) course, split into three trimesters. Teaching methods combine lectures with specialist workshops in our newsrooms and independent study. You will be taught to use software such as Burli (audio), Avid (video) Adobe InDesign (publishing) to edit and broadcast and have access to Radio ENRG and out TV studio. The course is taught by a team of media professionals-academics with a background in newspapers/online and broadcasting both in the UK and abroad for such news organisations as BBC, STV, Channel 4, Sky News, Al Jazeera, Swiss TV, Talk Radio, RTE, Vanity Fair, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Scotsman, The Herald, Daily Record, The Conversation etc. Read more to learn more about their professional background.
Careers:
Recent graduates have gone on to work for media organisations such as the BBC, ITN, STV and across the newspaper and publishing industry as well as public relations, marketing and corporate communications.
Other:
top 3 UK university for Journalism, Publishing and Public Relations. (The Guardian University Guide 2023) Hhome to the longest established Journalism programme in Scotland.
