MA Journalism – University of Sheffield

Journalistic reporting and storytelling requires expertise in creating and publishing multi-platform content, alongside a solid grasp of traditional skills and knowledge – take our Journalism MA degree and you’ll develop both.

Our course will fully prepare you for life in a fast-paced multi-platform digital newsroom. You’ll apply your learning in a huge variety of ways: news writing, web publishing, shorthand, social media management, audio, podcasts, short-form and long-form video production and presentation skills alongside media law and ethics – all in the process of hunting down and creating and producing stories to meet real-time deadlines with your team.

You will harness your knowledge in our newsrooms and out in Sheffield during our production news days, hunting down stories and producing them up to meet real-time deadlines with your team. You will publish your content on Sheffield Wire – a real, public-facing news website with its own social media channels.

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.

The course is accredited by the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) and is renowned within the industry as one of the best in the UK. Our course provides you with optionality within this NCTJ accreditation. We’ll give you access to international, national and regional news providers across a myriad of platforms, including news, features and broadcast, during both teaching sessions and through exciting work placements. In November 2017 the NCTJ rated Journalism MA at Sheffield as the UK’s top-performing postgraduate course.

Our alumni are highly successful journalists who excel at all forms of multi-platform digital storytelling, including TV, radio, podcast, web and social media content.

NCTJ elective modules offered:

• Public affairs for journalists
• Media law court reporting
• Shorthand for journalists
• Journalism for a digital audience
• Introduction to PR for journalists
• Videojournalism for digital platforms
• Broadcast journalism

Job destinations of recent graduates include:

• BBC News
• The Guardian
• The Telegraph
• The Mirror
• ITV News
• PA Media
• Sky Sports News
• The Athletic