Cardiff, United Kingdom
DEGREE TYPE
MA
DURATION
1 year
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
GBP 22,700 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for overseas | for home: £11,700
Key Summary
Introduction
Suited to those with an international outlook, the course offers a mix of practice and theory for either aspiring journalists or mid-career practitioners to gain a perspective of journalism in different media and different countries.
Our MA in International Journalism aims to offer knowledge and expertise for a career in international media or related fields.
The course offers the opportunity to gain a perspective on 21st-century journalism in different media and different countries. It offers a mix of practice and theory – blending journalistic techniques and advanced academic study.
While the programme offers practical journalism it remains an academic Master’s degree. The practical working environment within the degree aims to deepen professional knowledge and challenge understandings.
You’ll choose to specialise in broadcast, documentary, or multimedia journalism.
Why Study this Course
All-New Facilities
Our new studios and newsrooms use industry-standard equipment and software - ensuring you’re fully prepared for your first day at work.
Never Miss an Interview
You’ll be connected to the entire city with Cardiff’s main train station Cardiff Central just 100 metres away.
Join the Press Pack
Our city centre location means you’re next to Cardiff’s local and national media companies such as the BBC and Wales Online.
A Global Viewpoint
Your fellow students, from a range of national and cultural backgrounds, will provide a richness of exposure to comparative media practices.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
We are committed to investing up to a total of £500,000 in this high-value competitive scholarship scheme to support UK students who are planning to start an eligible Master’s programme in 2024/25.
The Scholarships are each worth £3,000 and will be awarded in the form of a tuition fee discount.
Eligibility
UK students are eligible to apply for the Scholarship. You normally need to have achieved at least a 2.1 or equivalent in your first degree to be eligible. You need to apply to study at Cardiff University and be made an offer to study before your fee status can be confirmed.
Curriculum
The taught component of the course amounts to 120 credits and is taught across two semesters (Autumn and Spring) from the end of September to the beginning of June and combines core and elective modules.
You will submit a dissertation at the end of August. The dissertation carries 60 credits.
The modules shown are an example of the typical curriculum and will be reviewed before the 2024/25 academic year. The final modules will be published by September 2024. Close all
Core Modules for Year One
- Information Gathering and Analysis 1
- Information Gathering and Analysis 2
- International News Production 2
- International News Production 1
- Foreign News Reporting
- Dissertation Project
Optional Modules for Year One
- In the Editor's Chair
- Reporting Business, Finance and Economics
- Citizen Media: Digital Storytelling
- Communicating Causes
- Emerging Journalism
- Media, Science and Health
- Short Form Video Production
The University is committed to providing a wide range of module options where possible, but please be aware that whilst every effort is made to offer choice this may be limited in certain circumstances. This is because some modules have limited numbers of places available, which are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, while others have minimum student numbers required before they will run, to ensure that an appropriate quality of education can be delivered; some modules require students to have already taken particular subjects, and others are core or required on the programme you are taking. Modules may also be limited due to timetable clashes, and although the University works to minimise disruption to choice, we advise you to seek advice from the relevant School on the module choices available.
How Will I Be Assessed?
You will be assessed through a wide range of formative and summative classroom activities, essays and practical assessments throughout the course.
Program Outcome
What Skills Will I Practise and Develop?
You will develop very strong written, spoken and visual communication skills targeted to a career in international journalism but highly transferable to other areas of media and beyond.
You also gain experience working in multicultural, multilingual global teams and will emerge with a valuable combination of research skills spanning academic methods and techniques of investigative journalism.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Graduates of the MA International Journalism programme are employed in a wide and varied range of occupations including editorial positions in International Broadcast and Multimedia Journalism industries such as BBC Worldwide, CNN, NDTV, SABC, Russia Today, Al Jazeera, Reuters and Bloomberg. Graduates have also gone on to work in global marketing and publication industries as well as becoming freelance documentary producers and web content developers.
Program delivery
How Will I Be Taught?
You will be taught through a variety of practical workshops which replicate an industry environment as well as a series of lectures and seminars which complement the academic nature of the course.