The University for business and the professions MA Broadcast Journalism/ Television Journalism MA Financial Journalism MA Interactive Journalism MA International Journalism MA Investigative Journalism MA Magazine Journalism MA Newspaper Journalism MA Political Journalism MA Science Journalism Erasmus Mundus Masters: Journalism, Media and Globalisation Po stgra duate cou rses in Jou rnalism Detailed course and module descriptions MA Broadcast GEFFPFG COURSE FEES NFULLPTIMEO:* UK/EU: £L,KEE Jou rnalism/Television INTERNATIONAL: £FK,HEE GEFFPFG COURSE FEES NPARTPTIMEO:* Jou rnalism UK/EU: £J,EEE NBROADCAST ONLYO City University London has been training aspiring broadcast journalists since 1981, and our broadcast training courses are among the best-known and Welcome to the Graduate School of Journalism at City University most highly-regarded in the UK today. London. We hope in these pages to convince you that we offer not only the best journalism courses in Britain but in the world. Alumni from City’s MA Journalism courses are newspaper and magazine editors as well as anchors and reporters on national and global television channels. They work all over the These two MA courses prepare Please refer to this course if your MODULES INCLUDE: world’s media. Here at City you will be taught tested skills and principles as well as the latest you for a first job in radio or interest is primarily in television • Editorial production for TV multi-channel and new media techniques. You will learn from top practitioners in their fields television journalism. Both are journalism of any kind. You (Television MA students only) and have opportunities for internships in a city which is one of the world’s media capitals. accredited by the Broadcast will benefit from state-of-the-art • Editorial production for One London newspaper said that City’s Graduate School enjoys “legendary status” in the Journalism Training Council facilities including a purpose- TV and radio (Broadcast media. Journalism is adapting to significant changes. We equip our Masters students to be (BJTC). As a Broadcast built digital television studio, Journalism only) thinking journalists who can succeed and lead in the news media of the future. Journalism student you will be two digital editing suites, • Entrepreneurial journalism given practical training in radio four radio studios, and two • Final project Professor George Brock and television through lectures, broadcast newsrooms. • Journalism practice Head of Journalism workshops and broadcast • Journalism and society 1 simulation. As a Television • Journalism and society 2 Journalism student you will • Media law cover television only, from • Online journalism news to documentaries. • Public administration Course descriptions Page: 1 • Radio and television technique Module descriptions Page: 11 (Broadcast Journalism only) Study format Page: 20 • Research for TV current affairs Reading list Page: 21 programmes (Television Career paths Page: 22 Journalism only) Showcase Page: 24 • Television studio programme making. Academic profiles Page: 26 Application procedures Page: 32 Why choose City University London Page: 34 *Fees listed are for 2011/12. Fees for 2012/13 will be listed on our website in due course. City University London Postgraduate Courses in Journalism page 1 Detailed course and module descriptions (cont.) MA Financial GEFFPFG COURSE FEES:* MA Inte ract ive GEFFPFG COURSE FEES:* UK/EU: £M,JEE UK/EU: £L,KEE Jou rnalism INTERNATIONAL: £FM,EEE Jou rna lism INTERNATIONAL: £FK,HEE This course is aimed at producing a This Masters course prepares you to alongside essential journalistic skills generation of outstanding journalists work in the developing and expanding of writing, reporting, newsgathering, who will excel at covering the next field of online journalism, with a focus interviewing and feature-writing – core financial crisis – and understand on two key areas: data journalism and elements of City’s renowned Journalism the ramifications of the current one. community and social media. You will MA course. develop these online specialisations The field of financial journalism This course is taught in MODULES INCLUDE: As the media increasingly treat involves expert input from Growing numbers of City has expanded rapidly, and has collaboration with Cass Business Core modules: readers more as active leading practitioners at news graduates are working in now moved to the front page of School and is led by Professor • Editorial production – practical participants and less as passive organisations such as the data journalism and many newspapers to become the Steve Schifferes, former BBC production skills for radio, consumers, so journalism is Telegraph, Reuters, the BBC, community/social media, centre of the political debate. economics correspondent, and TV, online and print evolving. This course prepares The Guardian, BreakingNews including: Simon Rogers, James This course benefits from close will include practical training • Financial journalism practice you for roles in journalism that and Reed Business Information Ball and Laura Oliver ( The proximity to the City of London, in multimedia journalism skills – how to cover markets, reflect this change to a more (a leading B2B magazine Guardian ); Kate Day, Conrad one of the world’s leading as well as a more analytic companies and the economy participatory, interactive publisher). Quilty-Harper and Sebastian financial centres, with guest approach to contemporary • Key issues in financial approach, equipping you with Payne ( Telegraph ); Martin lecturers drawn from the world issues. Other lecturers include journalism – how the skills that are in short supply in Work placements are an Stabe ( Financial Times ); of banking and major media former correspondents for financial crisis is shaking journalism and related fields. integral part of the Interactive and Tom Barfield (Demotix). organisations. You will also Reuters, the Scotsman and the world economy. Journalism course, giving you benefit from the first-class producers/reporters for BBC The Data Journalism module is the chance to put your learning MODULES INCLUDE: facilities at the Graduate School News and IRN. Students on Elective modules: taught by Paul Bradshaw, a into practice, develop this • Community and social media of Journalism and will share this course will be taking it • Corporate reporting pioneer in this field (who also further and to widen your • Data journalism lectures and seminars by the alongside Financial Times • Entrepreneurial journalism leads the Online Journalism contacts and experience in the • Entrepreneurial journalism distinguished faculty in one of journalists who are taking the • Global investment module), and James Ball, a data industry. You will undertake • Final project the UK’s top journalism schools. course on a part-time basis. • Global political economy journalist at The Guardian, with at least two placements. • Journalism practice • The City and financial Simon Rogers, data editor at • Journalism and society All students on the course institutions. The Guardian. The module on • Media law receive placements (internships) Community and Social Media • Online journalism at the Financial Times group in • Public administration. December and January. *Fees listed are for 2011/12. Fees for 2012/13 *Fees listed are for 2011/12. Fees for 2012/13 will be listed on our website in due course. will be listed on our website in due course. City University London Postgraduate Courses in Journalism page 2 City University London Postgraduate Courses in Journalism page 3 Detailed course and module descriptions (cont.) MA Inte rnational GEFFPFG COURSE FEES:* MA Investi gat ive GEFFPFG COURSE FEES:* UK/EU: £L,KEE UK/EU: £L,KEE Jou rna lism INTERNATIONAL: £FJ,FEE Jou rnalism INTERNATIONAL: £FK,HEE This course places an emphasis on and you will leave with a global contacts This pioneering course will provide developing practical skills, and is book, a more profound understanding you with the essential skills for designed to enable you to embark on of other cultures and greater insight employment in print, Internet or a career in international journalism into international news. broadcast journalism, together with or return to a career with enhanced innovative and in-depth research knowledge and skills. It is designed and investigative techniques. for students from outside the UK Graduate employment rates All students will take a course MODULES INCLUDE: The course teaches advanced It is taught by leading MODULES INCLUDE: are excellent, with alumni in print, radio, television • Advanced journalism practice research skills including investigative journalists, • Editorial production working for international news and online journalism before • Final project computer-assisted reporting, the including: David Leigh, • Investigative reporting 1 organisations like Al-Jazeera, specialising in either print • International news effective use of public records investigations editor of • Investigative reporting 2 CNN, APTN, BBC World Service and online; radio and online • Journalism and society and databases, the Freedom of The Guardian and Professor • Journalism practice and Dow Jones. As well as or television and online • Journalism practice 1 Information Act and analysing of Reporting at City; Gavin • Journalism and society 1 faculty who are experienced journalism. All students (Multi-platform) data to find stories. It provides MacFadyen, director of the • MA project journalists and academics, complete an internship, • Journalism practice