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MA - Master of Arts
Northampton Square
Full Time
SEP-25
10 months
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MA - Master of Arts
Northampton Square
Full Time
SEP-25
10 months
MA - Master of Arts
City, University of London
Full Time
SEP-25
10 Months
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Find your path into the visual journalism industry with our unique Television Journalism MA. You will learn practical skills and develop vital knowledge from seasoned professionals and through work placements. We will teach you how to find, research, develop, write, shoot and edit visual stories for short and long form platforms including social videos, TV and digital news and documentaries. You will learn practical multimedia skills through weekly news days. Working as producer, presenter, correspondent, or director to create a half-hour studio programme with live reports and self-shot packages and accompanying social and digital content. We will equip you with the skills to originate, develop, script, film and edit a 28-minute documentary, with powerful visual sequences. You will learn how to work legally and ethically, but with a strong creative visual flair. Your coursework will involve journalistic assignments produced to a deadline, as you would work in a real news organisation. You will learn practical and core journalism skills in groups of 15 and upwards through lectures, workshops and broadcast-simulated news days. Some modules are held in lecture theatres but most are small-group workshops allowing you to develop journalistic skills and knowledge. The course is delivered by a wide range of professionals in their field who have worked across the industry.
Here at City we have an alumni network that is second to none in UK television journalism.
As one of our graduates you will have among the best employment opportunities of any journalism graduate in the UK.
Recent graduates have been employed or hired by the following organisations, often as researchers, producers or reporters:
Applicants should hold an upper second-class honours degree or the equivalent from an international institution. Consideration will also be given to mature applicants with substantial work experience in radio and/or television journalism. Students whose first language is not English are advised to apply for the International Journalism MA, which is designed specifically for students from outside the UK.
Students living in
Domestic
£11,930 per year
Students from Domestic
The fee for 2024/25 entry is: £11930. There might be slight increase in fee for 2025/26 entry.
£24,440 per year
Students from EU
The fee for 2024/25 entry is: £24440. There might be slight increase in fee for 2025/26 entry.
£24,440 per year
Students from International
The fee for 2024/25 entry is: £24440. There might be slight increase in fee for 2025/26 entry.
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