MA Broadcast JournalismOur broadcast courses will give you the edge in that all important search for your first job. You'll be immersed in radio and television news and thinking like a broadcast journalist right from the start. And you'll discover how broadcast techniques work online.
What does the course involve?You'll learn how to write for radio and television news, how to ask the questions that matter, how to find your own stories and turn them into sharp and imaginative broadcast material. You'll learn how to record and film material and edit it using a desktop software package and how to tell stories on the web. You'll learn media law and public administration, ethics and regulation. At the heart of the course are newsdays, where students work together to produce radio and television bulletins under conditions that simulate a professional newsroom. You'll suggest your own stories, follow up others and always be working against the clock. Many of these newsdays are led by working journalists from around the region. |
Meet the course leaderMarie Kinsey explains how she became a journalist – and why she loves teaching the course |
What do you need to get on the course?You'll have a passion for news and current affairs, an aptitude for broadcast and a determination to succeed. If you've experience in a broadcast newsroom, or of student journalism, so much the better.
FacilitiesYou'll be taught in our dedicated newsrooms under conditions that replicate industry practice and by staff with extensive professional backgrounds as well as by leading journalism academics. Our facilities are those you'd find in any modern newsroom. They include Burli and ENPS script and audio management systems, digital audio and video editing software, portable digital video cameras, audio recording equipment, radio studio and production booths, a two-camera television news set and dedicated gallery.
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