Taught postgraduate degrees in journalism

Your perfect preparation for the modern newsroom

Journalism is changing. Make sure you're prepared. Take a one-year postgraduate degree at Sheffield and you'll be ready to enter a thrilling profession where the boundaries are shifting every year.

Digital technology is transforming the way news is produced and consumed. Meanwhile, Leveson and the phone hacking scandal mean a rigorous moral framework is needed for journalists to win back public trust.

At Sheffield our superb multimedia newsrooms offer the perfect preparation for the digital workplace. And our expert teaching staff include the leading authorities on journalistic ethics and law.

Interested? Read on to learn more.

Cutting-edge vocational courses

Our suite of four applied postgraduate courses are closely linked. You can specialise in one aspect of journalism – newspapers, broadcast, magazines or web – but you'll have the multimedia skills and underpinning knowledge to work across the breadth of modern newsrooms.

Take one of these cutting-edge courses and you'll get:

• excellent teaching by experienced industry professionals and media academics
• experience in newsrooms equipped with the latest digital media technologies
• training in the full range of multimedia skills needed in today's media
• production work on newspaper pages, radio and television bulletins, magazines and websites in a simulated workplace setting, meeting the challenges of deadlines and professional standards
• an understanding of the legal, ethical and regulatory requirements of the media industries
• the chance to undertake a work placement
• careers advice and regular visits from working journalists and media managers

Use the links to the right to explore the content of these courses in greater depth – or find out how to apply.

Academic and analytical

Our MA courses in International Political Communication and Global Journalism have a strongly academic, analytical focus. This equips you for further study to PhD level, or for a career in political or public communication. The courses offer:

• theoretical insights into political communication or global journalism
• practical experience of communicating with the media
• understanding of the relationship between journalists and media strategists
• subject-specific research training
• specialist study in a range of areas, including media ethics and regulation, censorship and media audiences
• the chance to engage in advanced debates about political communication and global journalism

Your career outcomes

Nothing's certain in the current jobs market. But our masters degrees seem to help a lot. Graduates from our applied MA courses have secured jobs in newsrooms around the UK and abroad, in newspapers, radio and television, and on magazines and websites.

Our broadcast journalists have gone on to work for Sky News, BBC World Service, BBC World, Guardian Online, the Times, BBC local radio, independent radio, ITV Yorkshire, ITV Borders, the ITV News Trainee Scheme, BBC Watchdog, Russia Today, and Hunan TV in China, among others.