The University of Sheffield
Prospective Postgraduates

MA/Postgraduate Diploma Broadcast Journalism

Journalism student

Key facts

  • Department of Journalism Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences
  • MA - 1 year full-time
  • Postgraduate Diploma - 9 months full-time

Fees and funding

Financial information for postgraduate taught courses

Entry requirements

A 2:1 degree, but we will consider mature students with relevant professional experience.

Excellent writing and communication skills are essential. Good computing and word processing skills are desirable.

English language requirements: overall IELTS grade of 7.5 with a minimum of 7.5 in each component, or equivalent.

Entry requirements for international students

Any questions?

If you'd like to know more about any aspect of our courses, contact us:

Mrs Susie Whitelam
E: journalism@sheffield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)114 222 2500

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About the course

Accredited by the Broadcast Journalism Training Council.

Learn how to write for radio and television news: how to find your own stories and turn them into sharp and imaginative broadcast material. You'll record and film material and edit it using a desktop software package. You'll also learn media law and public administration, ethics and regulation.

We'll prepare you for the multimedia environment by teaching you how to create audio and video for the web and how to use social media effectively.

Core modules

  • Researching News
  • Law for Journalists
  • Ethics and Regulation
  • Power and Society
  • Broadcast News
  • Advanced Broadcast Journalism
  • Broadcast Journalism dissertation/portfolio (PGDip students don't take this module)

Optional modules

A range including:

  • Global Journalism
  • Media Audiences
  • Persuasion, Reasoning and Argument
  • Journalism, Globalisation and Development
  • The Media in Europe and its Neighbouring States

Teaching

  • Lectures
  • Seminars
  • Group workshops
  • Individual and team assignments

Assessment

  • Essays
  • Examinations
  • Practical broadcast journalism – producing news stories, radio and TV news items and features, web pages and portfolios

Your career

A masters from Sheffield is the mark of someone who thinks differently. Graduates from our courses are creative, disciplined journalists. In television they're working for the BBC and Sky News; in radio for the BBC and independent radio stations around the country.

The Press Association recruits Sheffield graduates each year.

About us

Our teaching staff are professionals who have worked at the highest level in newspaper, magazine, radio, television and online journalism. This is a great place to learn practical skills.

Three quarters of our research is rated world-leading or internationally excellent. The discussion of ideas about journalism, its past, present and future, is part of all our courses.

We have strong links with the industry. We send our masters students on a three-day field trip to London, visiting national news organisations for briefings on current developments with senior editors and meeting politicians and political journalists.

Guests from the media industries, regulators, campaigning groups and research institutes give lectures in the department. Broadcast editors run radio and television newsdays.

Our graduates work for major organisations including the BBC and Sky.

Work experience opportunities

We encourage you to go on a work placement of one to three weeks during vacation time. Employers regularly notify us as opportunities come up and we have a dedicated work placement administrator to help you find a placement that’s right for you. Our students often find a work placement leads to a job after graduation.

Professional accreditation

This course is accredited by the Broadcast Journalism Training Council.

Real world learning environment

Our facilities are designed to simulate a real-life working environment. We have separate newsrooms divided into broadcast, print and web.

The broadcast newsroom is equipped with industry standard software for radio production. We have a state-of-the-art radio studio and digital audio recorders. You'll learn how to create packages and put together live news bulletins. We teach you how to shoot professional news pieces on HD TV cameras, and how to use Apple Final Cut X to cut rushes together.

You'll also have access to a Press Association newsfeed, telephones, daily newspapers and Sky TV.

Apply now

You can apply for postgraduate study using our Postgraduate Online Application Form. It is a quick and easy process.

Postgraduate Online Application Form