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MA - Master of Arts
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1 Year
Learn how to find, publish and execute your own stories across a multitude of platforms, including print, web and social media, ensuring you gain the essential skills and knowledge to become a top-class multimedia reporter. News reporting requires expertise in creating and publishing digital 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 newsdays. You'll also work with a team to publish your stories 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, video production and media law and ethics - all in the process of hunting down and writing up 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.Our course is accredited by the National Council for the Training of Journalists and is renowned within the industry as one of the best in the UK. We'll give you access to international, national and regional news providers on a myriad of platforms during both teaching time and exciting work placements. Our alumni are intelligent and successful journalists who are excellent at both traditional newswriting and digital mobile journalism.
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.
Students living in
Domestic
£12,310 per year
Students from Domestic
This is the fee you pay if the University is in the same country that you live in (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)
£29,030 per year
Students from EU
The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from somewhere in the EU.
£29,030 per year
Students from International
The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from a country outside the EU.
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