MA Journalism: Audio/Visual Journalism
University of the Arts London
About this program
MA Journalism: Audio/Visual Journalism
MA Journalism: Audio/Video Journalism has a strong industry focus and will support you to develop your journalistic skills. As a multimedia course, we cover multiplatform journalism for broadcast, podcast, online and social media
Admission requirements
Language requirements
All classes are conducted in English. If English is not your first language, we strongly recommend you let us know your English language test score in your application. If you have booked a test or are awaiting your results, please indicate this in your application. When asked to upload a CV as part of your application, please include any information about your English test score.
- IELTS 7.0 (or equivalent) is required, with 6.0 in each of the four skills.
- If your first language is not English, you can check you have achieved the correct IELTS level in English on the Language Requirements page.
- For further details regarding international admissions and advice please visit the International Applications page.
In order to be considered, you would have achieved an Honours degree (preferably a 2:1), or equivalent professional qualifications with a minimum of three years relevant professional experience.
For more information about admission requirements, please visit the university website.
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Program content
Multiplatform Journalism
This unit will introduce you to the core practical journalism skills of research, interviewing, reporting and pitching, along with basic legal principles. You’ll also develop skills in idea generation and development, primary and secondary research, understanding audiences and their interests through data and analytics, narrative, editing, and promoting work on social media.
Throughout this unit, you’ll produce a portfolio of journalistic work for submission.
Audio and Video Journalism: Critical Perspectives
You’ll explore ethical, theoretical and contextual issues relating to your chosen pathway, including ethical issues relating to consent and representation.
Mobile Journalism and Short-form Video
You'll develop in-demand skills in mobile video journalism, learning how to shoot, edit and embed eye-catching short-form video for social media to build engagement with online audiences.
Podcasting and Creative Video
In this unit, you’ll develop skills in a range of journalistic forms relating to your chosen pathway, focusing on primary and secondary research, building narratives and promoting your work on social media.
Building skills in longer-form content creation in audio and video, you'll learn how to produce engaging podcasts from first idea to final production using our specialist suite of studios, while video teaching will move from mobile to digital cameras and green-screen studio production. You'll develop location shooting, creative production and editing skills, ultimately crafting your own video documentary feature.
Collaborative Unit
This unit is designed to enable you to identify, form and develop collaborative working relationships with a range of potential partners. These could include other postgraduate students at LCC or UAL; postgraduate students at other Higher Education institutions; or external organisations such as cultural or community groups, NGOs, businesses or charities.
The nature of this collaboration will involve working on a project with outcomes agreed by your tutors, and will take the form of group work that can happen within the College or digitally/remotely.
Audience, Editing and Platform Management
In this unit, you’ll develop skills in multimedia platform management through taught sessions from staff and industry professionals, and by working in one or more editorial roles on the Artefact multimedia brand which includes a print magazine, a regularly updated live website, and audio, video and social media channels.
You’ll also have the opportunity to develop your chosen specialism through your practice.
Final Major Project
You’ll put the skills and knowledge developed during the course into action.
In the first part of the unit, you’ll develop ideas for your personal project and submit a written proposal for an individual journalistic product or portfolio in a medium or media of your choice that’s also relevant to your specialism. You’ll also produce a reflective report looking at your development as a journalist and the direction for your future career.
In the second part of the unit, you’ll work with a supervisor to produce the project, which will be supported and evidenced by a reflective document.
Scholarships & funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Program delivery
Course length: 1 year 3 months full-time (45 weeks across a four-term model)
MA Journalism is in Full Time mode which runs for 45 weeks over 15 months. You will be expected to commit 40 hours per week to study.
Tuition
- The full tuition fee of 2022/23 for local students is £11,220 per year.
- The full tuition fee of 2022/23 for International students is £22,920 per year.
Qualification
Practice-based workshops
Much of the teaching will take place in workshops in which, under the guidance of specialist staff and industry experts, you will develop the practical journalistic skills and apply them to a range of projects.
Integration of theory and practice
The course will be conceptually driven with a detailed study of theoretical issues supporting the development of practice.
Collaborative and independent working
Students will work with other students on the course, on other courses in the college, with industry experts and on the Artefact media brand. They will also work independently on their own projects: in particular the final major project.
Industry engagement and site visits
The course will build on the program’s industry links to involve media professionals in teaching and guest lectures and to arrange visits to newsrooms and other relevant locations.
Continuing studies
You'll have the opportunity to work on projects with industry partners, drawing on our close links with organisations such as The Guardian, Vice, Dazed and Women in Journalism. You’ll also gain insights from guest speakers representing a range of national newspapers, magazines, broadcasters and websites.
Career paths
Graduates of the course go on to work in a range of roles. Some become journalists across newspapers, broadcasters, online publications, or art, design, lifestyle and food magazines, or become editors for magazines and other publications.
Others take on roles in marketing and communications for fashion and lifestyle brands or major art institutions, choose to set up their own publications, or work as freelance journalists across a range of different titles.
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University of the Arts London
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- UAL has a track record for launching and furthering careers across the creative industries and beyond.
- Graduates are frequently shortlisted for national and global awards ranging from the Turner Prize to the Oscars.
- UAL is home to more than 2,400 postgraduate students.
- The university offers a wide range of theoretical and practice-based research programmes leading to a PhD or MPhil.
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- UAL has a diverse student community, with students drawn from over 130 countries across the globe.
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