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"This course put me out of my comfort zone and enabled me to really develop my skills as a journalist as no other course could. If there was anything I was struggling with or confused by there was always an excellent team of experienced teachers able to answer my questions and get me back on the right track. I was able to combine what I'd learned as an undergrad with my new rapidly developing skillset to produce a portfolio of work that I'm proud to show employers. I'm so glad I chose BU."聽聽聽

鈥淭he MA Multimedia Journalism programme is great for those wanting to gain hands-on experience in media-related fields. My favourite part is that you鈥檙e not limited to just one sector of journalism and with multiple modes of teaching it really helps prepare you with the necessary skills and knowledge to launch your career.鈥澛�

鈥淏U鈥檚 Multimedia Journalism course was decisive for my personal and professional growth. I learned several skills that I hadn't learned before and that makes me more confident and prepared for the job market.鈥澛�

"Studying MA Multimedia Journalism in 香港六合彩资料网 has been聽truly聽remarkable for me.聽It鈥檚聽a聽great course and I鈥檓 glad I made the choice."聽

"Taking this course is one of the best choices I've ever made. From knowing nothing, Multimedia Journalism helped me understand the principles of modern journalism and also prepared me to throw myself into real situations through practical lessons. My favourite thing about this course is that we have an awarded news feature website, The Breaker, where students can upload stories and features to show their progression day by day, especially when looking back in the future."

• Digital Journalism:聽Insights and practices of multi-media journalism, using a mix of text, radio and TV. You'll become familiar with multiplatform publishing, collaborating in multimedia teams, and develop competence in producing and analysing evolving styles of journalism in many digital forms,聽including the use of Generative AI in text and visual formats.

• Journalism in Global Contexts:聽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, which will prepare you to assess journalism in today鈥檚 predominantly digital media environment.

• Legal & Ethical Context:聽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 situations including 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 deadline, develop contacts and sources using traditional and emerging social media techniques, consider intellectual, 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:聽You'll complete a self-conceived piece of independent research and produce an extended journalistic production under the guidance of a nominated supervisor. You鈥檒l critically explore key issues and debates in journalism studies and develop a more specialised understanding in an area of your choice. There will be an opportunity to consider the relationship between journalistic practice and digital technologies. You鈥檒l produce a reflective submission linked to your practical project. You鈥檒l also be integrating, synthesising and extending the skills and knowledge you鈥檝e gained so far and be able to prove you've met the intellectual, technical and personal skills demanded of a Master鈥檚 graduate.

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:聽This unit explores the function and role of the media in the context of shared global challenges, and specifically those defined by the UN鈥檚 Sustainable Development Goals 2030 Agenda. It will also examine the role of media and journalism to empower communities to respond to and reduce the risks posed by the challenges defined in the SDGs.
• Immersive & Interactive Storytelling:聽The unit aims to explore existing and emerging digital technologies which put the audience 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 a variety of writings and approaches to the genre and gain insights into the key issues and debates around such journalism.
• New Media Innovation:聽You'll engage with key 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 will be at the forefront, including data journalism, increased transparency and accountability, mobile news applications and augmented reality,聽and the use of GenAI in media production. You'll gain an understanding of how to undertake developing online civic media projects for journalistic purposes.

*Please note that option units require minimum numbers in order to run and may only be available on a semester by semester basis. They may also change from year to year.

You are required to undertake a minimum three-week placement during the course (usually during the Easter break), providing an opportunity to apply your acquired knowledge and skills in the workplace. You are required to find your own placement; however, our Careers & Employability Service and your faculty placements office are on hand to support you.

Programme specifications provide definitive records of the university鈥檚 taught degrees in line with Quality Assurance Agency requirements. Every taught course leading to a BU Award has a programme specification which describes its aims, structure, content and learning outcomes, plus the teaching, learning and assessment methods used.

Whilst every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the programme specification, the information is liable to change to take advantage of exciting new approaches to teaching and learning as well as developments in industry. If you have been unable to locate the programme specification for the course you are interested in, it will be available as soon as the latest version is ready. Alternatively please contact us for assistance.

We will provide a great deal of help and support to ensure you achieve a rewarding and satisfying placement as we are dedicated to giving you the best possible start in your future career.

The Faculty of Media &聽Communication has聽a range of established, high-profile contacts which offer excellent placement opportunities. Organisations our students have previously worked with on placements include

• The BBC
• The Press Association
• Sky News
• Associated Press
• The Independent

For MA Multimedia Journalism we are looking for applicants who:

• Enjoy working with other people
• Want to make a difference with their lives
• Are flexible with time and energy levels
• Are creative, and critical
• See their future in journalism
• Are curious and open-minded.

Please see our website for the application deadlines. You should apply as early as possible to be considered for your course of choice.鈥疘f you require a student visa, apply for the visa as soon as you have an unconditional offer and receive your CAS.鈥疶here may be delays in visa processing in your country and you need to be in Bournemouth ready to study for the start of term.

December and January is one of our busiest application periods and therefore it may take us a little longer to process incoming applications. For courses with a January start date, we recommend submitting your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Click the green 鈥楢pply now鈥� button to submit your application free of charge online through myHub, our application portal. You will create your own myHub account so that you can track the progress of your application. Don鈥檛 forget to save your application as you go; you can return to it at as many times as you want before you submit it.聽For more information visit our How to apply section.

This course has compulsory elements involving practical production activities. When required, students must complete a health and safety risk assessment to take part in these activities, for their safety and that of others. As part of that assessment students provide information about any conditions or disabilities that might affect their ability to undertake these activities fully or safely.聽

If you have such a condition or disability, please let us know as soon as possible. You can contact our聽Additional Learning Support聽(ALS) service about this before or after making an application. We will then work with you to identify any support or adjustments you would need. Our ALS team works with the Faculty to seek to put in place reasonable adjustments and health and safety plans.

Exceptionally, it may not be possible to arrange for a student to access these courses without either over-riding their core standards or competencies or creating unacceptable risks to health and safety. If that is the case we will help you explore alternative course choices.

The normal requirements for embarking upon a postgraduate taught degree are:

• A Bachelors Honours degree with 2:2 in any subject

• Applicants encouraged to provide details of relevant work experience

If you lack the formal academic qualifications needed to enter a postgraduate or post-experience degree, there are several alternative routes to follow - some based on experience. Contact the Future Students Enquiry team for more information.

You can find details of the international qualifications we accept, and what level of study they apply to, on our entry requirements for non-UK students' page.

Please see below some examples of the qualifications for entry:

• India: Bachelor鈥檚 degree (4 years) from a recognised HE institution with a minimum overall result of 55%聽
• Nigeria:聽 Bachelor's degree from a recognised institution with a minimum classification of 2:2聽
• China:聽 Chinese Bachelor's (Honours) degree from a recognised higher education institution with 65% or above聽
• Turkey: Bachelor鈥檚 degree (Lisans Diplomasi - four years) with a minimum overall GPA of 2.3/4.0聽
• Vietnam:聽 Bachelor's degree/Bang tot nghiep dai hoc with an average score of 6.5/10, or 2.25/4, or a Master鈥檚 degree/Thac si.聽

All applications will be subject to a minimum grade and your degree may need to be in a relevant subject area.

English language requirements

If English is not your first language, you will need to provide evidence that you can understand English to a satisfactory level. English language requirements for this course are normally:

• IELTS (Academic) 7.0 with a minimum of 6.5 in writing and 5.5聽in speaking, listening and reading, or聽equivalent.

痴颈别飞听further information about our English language requirements.

offers a number of and to prepare international students for postgraduate study at BU. Admission to the degree is guaranteed on successful completion of your course to the required level.聽

Roles our Multimedia Journalism graduates have taken on include:

• TV Reporter
• Radio Producer
• Online Content Editor
• Social Media Consultant
• Multimedia Journalist

Among the companies that our graduates have worked for are:

• BBC
• Sky
• Press Association
• ITV
• ILR
• Al Jazeera
• CNN
• Associated Press
• Reuters
• Bloomberg

• Media
• Journalism
• PR
• Digital
• Management

If you want to continue your studies after achieving your Master鈥檚, you can look into our range of doctoral programmes.

What鈥檚 included in your tuition fee?

Your tuition fee covers expenses associated with your course including tuition materials, access to facilities, mandatory field trips and the following:

• Materials for laboratory and mandatory聽field-based teaching activity.
• Support for finding placements (UK or abroad) and fieldwork, and non-financial support whilst on placement if this is part of your course of study.
• A range of student services 鈥� advisors, help desks, counsellors, placement support and careers service.
• The Library 鈥� access to a wide range of electronic resources (databases, e-journals and e-books), print and multimedia collections, subject librarians and study spaces.
• Access to Brightspace, our virtual learning environment, which offers a responsive and personalised learning experience with powerful learning analytics capabilities, integrated social media and advanced video features.
• IT labs (some open 24/7), wireless network, AV equipment to borrow.
• Disability and additional learning support, according to individual circumstances.
• The BU Language Centre to help you develop/improve foreign or English language skills.
• 24 hours a day, 365 days a year security team.

Additional costs

We are committed to offering you value for money and ensuring there are no hidden costs while you are studying with us, therefore we have listed below any additional costs you may incur that are not covered by your tuition fee:

• Laptops, tablets and mobile devices聽and any software used on personal devices. Access to a personal computer is strongly recommended for your study. If you are experiencing financial difficulty, visit our website for information regarding hardship funds.
• 鈥婽extbooks, general stationery and other supplies. Our award-winning library is stocked with a large range of text books and online resources, free of charge. The Students鈥� Union shop stocks a wide range of stationery supplies.聽
• Accommodation and living costs. Please visit our for more information.
• 鈥婽ravel costs for optional field trips, outdoor wear and footwear for mandatory and optional field trips (if applicable).
• Travel costs to and from the University campus. An annual bus pass can be purchased alongside your rent if you are living in halls of residence/Unilet accommodation or may be purchased separately.
• 鈥婽ravel costs to and from your placement (both in the UK and overseas) if this is part of your course of study. Placement year funding information can be found on our website.
• Clothing or equipment costs required for your placement if this is part of your course of study.聽
• SportBU membership.

While all aspects of the programme, including required field trips, are included in the fee, additional, optional or extra curricula activities may be available for which a student contribution is required.

If you need to repeat one or more units during the course of your studies (with or without attendance) the pricing will be pro-rata of the full time fee.

International (not Rep. of Ireland) students need to pay a non-refundable deposit to secure their place on a postgraduate course. For September 2024 and January 2025 entry, a 拢5,000 deposit is required. You will need to pay your deposit by the date stated in your offer letter. The remainder of your fee will be payable on registration/enrolment. There are two exceptions to the non-refundable rule on the deposit:

• You fail to meet the academic or English requirements of your offer
• You are refused a visa to enter the UK, provided the reason for the refusal is not a fraudulent application.

We offer a range of scholarships to eligible students who are beginning their studies at BU. Please visit our funding pages聽for details on living costs, budgeting and paying your tuition fees.

Before returning to university to complete a PhD, Max worked for twelve years as a journalist, writer and researcher in Italy, Germany and Venezuela. In 2014, he was awarded a FIFA Research Scholarship to conduct a study on migrant youth, football and belonging, which led to the publication of the book 鈥淭he Balotelli Generation. Issues of Inclusion and belonging in Italian football and society鈥�. In 2019, he completed a follow up to his PhD ethnographic research carried out in Dublin, Ireland, and published the book 鈥淵outh sport, migration and culture. Two football teams and the changing face of Ireland鈥�. His work has also been published in journals, including Media, Culture and Society, Communication and Sport, Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies, Sport in Society, Soccer and Society.

Parallel to his academic work, he has published in Italian two cycling travel books (about a solo cycling trip through Patagonia, and about Berlin, the German capital) and a journalistic investigation on migration to and from Italy.

He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK).

Max's research interests encompass sport and processes of racialisation; mass media and national identity; youth cultures; journalism and ethnographic writing.

Dr. Antje Gl眉ck is a Lecturer in Multimedia Journalism at 香港六合彩资料网. She teaches on the BA(Hons) and MA courses for Journalism and Digital Media. She holds a PhD from the University of Leeds and a double MA in Journalism and Arabic Studies from the University of Leipzig in Germany. Her studies led her to spend time abroad in Egypt, Spain and France. Parallel, she has been working as a freelance journalist since 1998 for various print, radio and television media in Germany, France, Egypt and India.

Mike Sunderland is a lecturer in video, television and documentary journalism at 香港六合彩资料网. He was a producer and reporter at Sky News, where he specialised in foreign news. He was later a freelance video journalist and filmmaker covering East Africa. He has spent much of his career in Africa, both as a journalist and during two stints managing media relations for Save the Children. He has covered wars in Somalia, Nigeria, DRC and Ivory Coast, as well as humanitarian crises across the continent. His video content has been used by the likes of Sky News, ITV News, Associated Press, Voice of America, Reuters, Al Jazeera and France 24. His research interests focus on the media framing of humanitarian crises.

Dr Andrew Bissell joined 香港六合彩资料网 as a Lecturer in Journalism in September 2013 having spent 30 years as a newspaper and online journalist. During his journalism career, Andy was employed as a news reporter and feature writer before undertaking editorships. Andrew is a social science graduate of the University of Birmingham where he studied Economic and Social History. He is the author of two social history books that record memories of London鈥檚 East End and Southampton during the 1920s, 1930s and Blitz years. Andrew is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and became a Doctor of Education in 2018.

Chindu Sreedharan is Professor of Journalism at 香港六合彩资料网. His research focuses on 鈥榓bnormal journalisms鈥欌�攔eportage that extends the boundaries of conventional newswork, from crisis and post-disaster situations, news on social media, as well as new forms of nonfictional narratives.

Before moving into academics, Chindu worked as a journalist, combining reportorial and newsdesk experiences in New Delhi, Mumbai, and New York. Till 2003, he was Associate Editor for Rediff.com and India Abroad (a New York-based weekly newspaper), reporting and editing multi-chapter long narratives and political interviews.

Chindu specialised in crisis news, heading the coverage of, among others, the Kashmir conflict, the India-Pakistan Kargil war, and the Maoist insurgency in central India. He holds a PhD in journalism. His doctoral thesis was a longitudinal analysis of the news media coverage of the Kashmir conflict, and was among the first empirical investigation into this topic.

From 2015 to 2018, Chindu worked with the pro-vice-chancellor (global engagement) to contribute to BU鈥檚 international strategy. He was Principal Investigator of Connect India, one of the three 鈥榞lobal hubs鈥� designed to embed internationalisation at BU, which brought together a cross-faculty team of academics to engender research, practice and educational collaborations with HE institutions, businesses, and NGOs in the Indian subcontinent. Prior to that, he was the programme leader of the MA Media and Communication (2015-17) and MA International Journalism (2010-12).

Chindu teaches on the master鈥檚 and undergraduate levels and supervises PhDs. He invites applications from doctoral students interested in: a) journalism and crisis situations (disasters, terrorism, internal conflicts, war), and b) digital narratives and storytelling (longform journalism, multimodality, transmedia鈥攂oth nonfiction and fiction).

An Nguyen is Professor of Journalism and Public Communication and founding Co-Director of the Centre for Science, Health & Data Communication at 香港六合彩资料网. He is internationally recognised for a substantial body of research work in several areas:

• digital journalism and its publics (including citizen journalism)
• news consumption and citizenship
• science and health journalism
• science and health controversies in the post-truth era,
• public communication of data and statistics,
• constructive journalism (esp. solutions journalism) and
• global media and development.

His work has appeared in, among others, Journalism, Journalism Studies, Journalism Practice, Digital Journalism, Public Understanding of Science, Journal of Science Communication, Media and Communication, International Journal of Communication, First Monday, International Journal of Media and Culture Politics, Information Research, Journal of Sociology, and Vaccines.

Dr Dalia Elsheikh is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She completed her doctorate in Political Communication at 香港六合彩资料网 in 2017.

Her research interest includes the study of campaign communication with emphasis on both the professionalisation and its impacts upon citizen engagement in nascent democracies. She is currently working on a research project studying the culture movements in the Egyptian public sphere assessing their impact on the democratisation of Egypt. She is also interested in journalism studies.

David has around 30 years鈥� experience in journalism, training and development, and PR writing. During his career he has been a journalist working in staff or freelance roles for print and online consumer and business titles. He spent four years as editorial training manager at major web and magazine and web publisher Reed Business Information. He has also been a director of two limited companies: Journalism Training Centre, which won a National Training Award in 1994; and PMA Training. In addition, David spent time as consultant to specialist PR agency Simons Communications, working on press release writing and staff development. He is an examiner in Court Reporting and Essential Media Law & Regulation for the National Council for the Training of Journalists.

Stephen Titherington聽worked for more than thirty years at the聽BBC,聽mostly at the BBC World Service, where he served as Editor of the Newsroom, and Executive Editor of Global News. For the last decade he was Senior Commissioning Editor and Senior Head of content at BBC World, looking after many different areas including documentaries and podcasts. He is currently Podcast Editor at聽The Times. He joined BU as a Visiting Fellow in January 2024.聽