Program Overview

You will be challenged to create content for your favoured sports including cricket, rugby, football, golf, tennis, cycling, boxing, MMA and global sports of your choosing, across your period of study.

This content will be assessed within modules, but will also then be tailored to deliver maximum impact through your portfolios, showreels and future job applications. You can expect to learn the practical application of law and regulation in journalism as well as ethics.

• Develop a deep understanding of essential theory and best practice.
• Provide technical training to enable remarkable multi-media reporting and production.
• Potential access to major sports industry events and live reporting opportunities.

Why you should study this course

The course aims to offer you:

• The focused training required to become precisely what is required in modern sports journalism. This will include skills to create remarkable news, feature and next-generation creative content, on all platforms.
• Tuition from experienced industry professionals in the use of camera and audio capture, Adobe’s edit suite, content management systems (CMS), social media platforms and law (staff subject to change).
• Regular on-location reporting opportunities including press conferences, events and sports industry launches2.
• Connection with, and guidance from, notable industry writers and broadcasters as well as high-profile sports industry figures2.
• Opportunities to contribute to and shape creative social media campaigns for local sports businesses, for platforms such as YouTube, TikTok and Twitter2.