Multi-Media Journalism – (M.A.)

Convergence defines this award-winning Bournemouth course – the first in the UK to explore the full potential of multi-platform news publishing. It is accredited by the Broadcast Journalism Training Council.

With their full multi-skilling, postgraduates can cover any news or feature story for the web, for television, and for radio.

They can take a story from one medium and transfer it into another – television to radio – radio to online text.

Graduates from the course go straight into international, national and local broadcast news, national and local newspapers, national magazines, and often enjoy an accelerated rate of promotion in their chosen profession. They have a wider choice of career than single media training.

Graduates this year won all three top web awards run by the Broadcast Journalism Training Council for excellence in convergence journalism. In the two years before they won three of the four awards in this category. No other course has rivalled this record.

What does this course offer?
You will:

* Edit video, audio and text to international broadcast standards.
* Undertake a three-week minimum work placement.
* Converge content adeptly from one digital medium to others - television to radio – radio to online.
* Create cross-platform multi-media packages using the latest web communications.
* Benefit from continuous industry links, including guest lectures and hands-on workshops by leading new media journalists.
* Run multi-media newsdays in industry standard studios
* Gain expertise applicable to a range of media and communication employment
* Acquire key expertise to project work in unique multi-media formats, news or features.
* Work fast with full multi-skilling in all digital news media.
* Design a multi-media website and provide and curate all its content.
* Creatively exploit emergent social media for international and local journalism
* Understand digital rights and ethical issues of multi-platform journalism.

Where could this course lead to?
* International, national and local broadcast news; (UK or international) national and local newspapers (UK or international); and national magazines (UK or international);
* Online content editors, and journalists in any medium;
* Multi-Media news producers and broadcast journalists; e.g. BBC, Sky, CNBC, CNN, ITV, Deutsche Welle, Germany and many others;
* Journalists at top international news agencies –Reuters, Bloomberg, AFP;
* BBC regional radio, or commercial radio, home and abroad;
* Web Editors, producers, journalists and digital developers; e.g. Channel Four, BBC;
* Magazine editors – (e.g. Asian Life; Deputy Editor, Marketing Magazine)
* National multi-media news agency journalists – e.g. Press Association, UK;
* Online creative advertising – (e.g. Yahoo.co.uk);
* Content editors at international news portals (e.g. Yahoo! Rede de Contribuidores, Brazil);
* Commercial radio management;
* Freelance work in news and technology websites, news agencies etc;
* International and local Public Relations;
* Press Officers – e.g. (Chief Press Officer, Department for Energy and Climate Change
* Political speechwriting (e.g. European Commission)
* International television reporters (e.g. Star Television)
* Digital Media Executives, Content Managers (e.g. Lovefilm)
* Producer/Reporters, (e.g. Voice of America)
* Media Managing Directors – (e.g. Jayson Emerald Media Corporation; and Secretary General, India Centre Foundation)

Who should do this course?
* Graduates from a wide variety of disciplines seeking careers in journalism, with a Upper Second Class Honours degree or comparable professional qualifications
* Specifically those who can demonstrate some evidence of prior journalistic endeavour
* Professional journalists who wish to update their knowledge
* Enquiries from non-standard applicants with relevant professional experience are invited, and will be treated on a case-by-case basis.

Tell me more
The equal mix of broadcasting and online writing in this intensely practical course sharpens the defining elements of digital journalism.

Postgraduate work culminates in a multi-media online convergence project covering a current national or international issue.

The international postgraduates and UK students engage with critical research and ethical controversies at the frontiers of global journalism.

The course includes full newsdays in broadcast and online journalism in industry-standard facilities.

The job successes cover a range of media as well as news and features – skills are transferrable to public relations, press work, advertising, multi-media research, and web technical development. Most of the 200 or more graduates from the course now work in media jobs of their choice and in newsrooms all over the world.