Program Overview

• Benefit from our current links with the media industry, that have included the BBC, Al Jazeera, Sky, Africa-based media and online outlets here in the UK and elsewhere including USA2.
• The course is taught by experienced tutors with decades of practical journalism and public relations experience, and in addition, you will have opportunities2 to attend guest lectures by top as well as upcoming journalists and public relations practitioners, including alumni (subject to availability).
• Gaining hands-on experience2, you will be expected to work as part of a team on group projects, such as a magazine (see our Magcloud site) and a global collaborative newscast themed around pressing

Why you should study this course

• You will be taught and mentored very well by a highly experienced teaching team, whose former roles have included contributing to Al Jazeera’s global media analysis show ‘The Listening Post’, managing communications and PR in Oxford, editing commercial magazines. Staff practice and research cover new approaches to digital distribution, the web, photography and videography as well as issues in global media and communication plus digital and social media trends. Example engagements include staff secondment to the University of Cambridge on Politics and Interactive Media in Africa project – researching how radio and TV presenters and journalists give the public a voice via interactive broadcasting (teaching staff are subject to change).
• We have links with the journalism-media industry, including the BBC, in the UK and elsewhere including the USA, so we host high-profile guest speakers (subject to availability), who in the past have included a BBC Director-General, Channel 4 founder, a highly respected Channel 4 News anchor and a famous BBC Newsnight presenter.
• We help you to acquire the essential knowledge and practical skills needed for a successful career in global journalism or public relations as we get you used to working with multiple forms of media – generating traditional print, audio and video content, all the while embracing new technologies and creating parallel digital content, including social media, blogs and web-based content.
• You get opportunities to work individually and as part of a team on live projects such as a magazine, a global collaborative newscast and student union publications-broadcasts, among others2.
• Facilities4 include newsrooms equipped with industry-standard hardware and software, a modern TV studio, radio studios and Media Loan Shop for professional equipment.