MA Journalism – University of Sheffield

Ink and paper may be a medium in decline, but in newer digital formats more people are accessing journalism than ever before. To be a successful news reporter your social media, camera and content management skills must be as sharp as your nose for a story.

The Journalism MA degree will fully prepare you for life in a fast-paced digital newsroom. Professional journalists will show you essential skills like web publishing, shorthand, video, and page layout. You’ll learn media law, ethics and public affairs from academic experts who lead their field. On production news days you’ll go out into Sheffield (or beyond) to hunt down stories and write them up to meet real-time deadlines with your team.

By the end of the course our Journalism postgraduates are agile, intelligent journalists who excel at traditional newswriting and can also create and publish an entire multimedia story online while on the move, using just a smartphone and their own savvy.

This degree is professionally accredited by the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ), a key benchmark of quality recognised throughout the UK media industry. In November 2017 the NCTJ rated Journalism MA at Sheffield as the UK’s top-performing postgraduate course.

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

Job destinations of recent graduates include:

• BBC News
• Cosmopolitan
• The Guardian
• PA Media
• Sky Sports News