MA International Journalism for Digital Media
Manchester, United Kingdom
MA
DURATION
3 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
From the BBC’s ‘Breaking News’ stories shared on social media to Al Jazeera's podcasts published on their website, foreign correspondence professionals are taking advantage of digital technology to reach diverse audiences.
In this course, through either full-time or part-time study, you’ll learn how to think and act like an international journalist.
Applicants from different walks of life join our course: you don’t have to be a journalism or media course graduate. Just show your engagement with news, experience in journalism or passion for reporting and we will be delighted to offer you a place once you have met all other criteria such as English language proficiency as set for your course.
You will:
- Study at our MediaCity campus, which is the media hub of the north, home to the BBC and ITV northern headquarters
- Be mentored by our well-connected and experienced broadcast and digital journalism practitioners
- Experience a real-life environment of digital newsrooms, and use our state-of-the-art TV and radio studios
- Explore specialisms such as foreign affairs, health and science reporting, business and finance writing or data journalism
- Network with industry through our special events and live brief journalism projects
This is for you if...
- You’re looking to gain practical experience, explore international journalism specialisms, or learn online journalism skills.
- You’re acting on pursuing your true passion for journalism and intend on changing your career or switching sectors.
- You need to study flexibly, as with our part-time option you can complete this postgraduate degree within three years.
Throughout this postgraduate course, our well-connected lecturers will arrange for you to interact with the industry through guest lectures, events such as Nations and Regions: Media Future, and facilitated workshops.
In the final semester, your focus will be on your Major Project, which gives you the option to deliver a dissertation or journalistic practice-as-research project.
Full time: Trimester one
- Global Perspectives on Journalism
- News and Ethics
Full time: Trimester two
- Journalism Practice in a Multimedia Newsroom
- Specialist Journalism Practice
Full-time: Trimester three
- Major Project
Graduates of our Digital Journalism masters can enter careers in various forms of journalism, including print, broadcast or online. You could work in reporting or management roles, public relations, research, or media analysis, both in this country and abroad. As a journalist, you could work as a UK-based foreign correspondent travelling abroad or full-time in overseas postings.
As well as that, during your time studying, you’ll build a portfolio of work that can be shared with potential employers, as well as develop a number of highly sought-after transferrable skills. Employers are always interested in candidates with strong research, development and delivery skills, as well as the ability to present ideas to a professional standard, all of which you will have used during your studies.
We’ve seen graduates from this course go on to do incredible things in their careers, including one graduate who is a TV anchor on a national TV channel in Indonesia, and another who runs a high-profile news website on the polar regions and Arctic marine life, regularly travelling on icebreakers with the North Pole and Antarctic expeditions.
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