MA Multimedia Journalism

• Digital Journalism: Insights and practices of multimedia journalism, using a mix of text, radio, and TV. You'll become familiar with multiplatform publishing, collaborating in multimedia teams, and developing competence in producing and analyzing evolving styles of journalism in many digital forms.

• Journalism in Global Contexts: This unit explores journalism in global contexts, offering insights into the issues relating to gathering and distributing news in - and for - varied news cultures. You'll be challenged to debate the ethical, political, social, and cultural dimensions involved in journalism products for national and transnational audiences. This will prepare you to assess journalism in today's predominantly digital media environment.

• Legal & Ethical Context: Gain an understanding of media regulation, issues with press and broadcasting freedoms, and approaches to the role of journalism and journalists, along with their ethical dilemmas and professional codes of conduct. You'll learn what you're legally allowed to report in the UK in court proceedings and council meetings and how to avoid being sued, and consider what might be justified for publication in the public interest. This unit continues in Semester 2.

• Multimedia Reporting Skills: Develop your skills in researching and reporting news and current affairs in radio, TV, and online formats. The unit will nurture your ability to write fluently, concisely, and coherently to the deadline, develop contacts and sources using traditional and emerging social media techniques, consider philosophical, ethical, and professional issues associated with news reporting and execute depth of research and imaginative presentation. Tasks include researching, interviewing, and editing in professional standard newsrooms and studios.

• Journalism Project: You'll complete a self-conceived piece of independent research and produce an extended journalistic production under the guidance of a nominated supervisor. You'll critically explore critical issues and debates in journalism studies and develop a more technical understanding in an area of your choice. There will be an opportunity to consider the relationship between journalistic practice and digital technologies. You'll produce a reflective submission linked to your practical project. You'll also be integrating, synthesizing, and extending the skills and knowledge, you've gained so far and be able to prove you've met the intellectual, technical, and personal skills demanded of a Master's graduate. You can take this unit as distance learning, subject to your supervisor's approval.

Choose two of the following option units:

• Documentary Journalism: Examine documentary forms and practices in radio and television. Technical workshops in recording and production techniques are also included, and you'll produce an audio or video documentary.

• Media & Global Challenges: This unit explores the function and role of the media in the context of shared global challenges, specifically those defined by the UN's Sustainable Development Goals 2030 Agenda. It will also examine media and journalism's role in empowering communities to respond to and reduce the risks posed by the challenges defined in the SDGs.

• Immersive & Interactive Storytelling: The unit aims to explore existing and emerging digital technologies that put the audience's experience of a story at the heart of storytelling.

• Investigative Journalism: The history and practice of investigative journalism and how it's applied to traditional and online media. You'll gain skills for reporting this way, be exposed to various writings and approaches to the genre, and gain insights into the key issues and debates around such journalism.

• New Media Innovation: Explore areas where journalism and new media overlap. There's a focus on how new media innovation helps different forms and practices for news production, distribution, consumption, and interaction. You'll engage with critical issues and debates facing a networked media landscape, where audiences as passive consumers make way for collaborative reporting and crowdsourcing. Ways new media can complement and improve existing journalistic processes, including data journalism, increased transparency and accountability, mobile news applications, and augmented reality, will be at the forefront. You'll gain an understanding of how to undertake developing online civic media projects for journalistic purposes.