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Journalism at University of Sheffield - UCAS

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Course summary

Learn how to find, publish and create your own stories across a multitude of platforms, including web, TV, radio and social media, ensuring you gain the essential skills and knowledge to become a top-class multimedia reporter or producer. Course description Our alumni are highly successful journalists who excel at all forms of multi-platform digital storytelling, including TV, radio, podcast, web and social media content. Journalistic reporting and storytelling requires expertise in creating and publishing multi-platform content, alongside a solid grasp of traditional skills and knowledge - take this degree and you’ll develop both. You will harness your knowledge in our newsrooms and out in the city during our production news days. You'll also work with a team to publish your content on Sheffield Wire – a real, public-facing news website with its own social media channels. You'll apply your learning in a huge variety of ways: news writing, web publishing, shorthand, social media management, audio, podcasts, short-form and long-form video production and presentation skills alongside media law and ethics - all in the process of hunting down and creating and producing stories to meet real-time deadlines with your team. As well as the core reporting skills required by employers, you’ll also be exposed to innovative journalism techniques, including ethical and appropriate use of AI, which will put you a step ahead when it comes to landing your first job. The course is accredited by the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) and is renowned within the industry as one of the best in the UK. Our course provides you with optionality within this NCTJ accreditation. We'll give you access to international, national and regional news providers across a myriad of platforms, including news, features and broadcast, during both teaching sessions and through exciting work placements. Our alumni are highly successful journalists who excel at all forms of multi-platform digital storytelling, including TV, radio, podcast, web and social media content. Accreditation Accredited by the National Council for the Training of Journalists Please see our University website for the most up-to-date course information.

Professional bodies

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

  • The National Council for the Training of Journalists

How to apply

International applicants

English language requirements: IELTS 7.5 (with 7 in each component) or University equivalent

Entry requirements

Minimum 2:1 undergraduate honours degree in any subject. We may also consider your application if you do not meet the standard academic requirements but you have considerable work experience in a media-related role. Audio task This course requires an audio task which you can record on your phone, desktop or laptop/tablet. A 60 to 90 second MP3 or WAV audio file which identifies and explains a Yorkshire regional or UK national story, and discusses how the story could be adapted and produced for social media channels, with a focus on storytelling and content. Please upload this file as part of your application.


Fees and funding

Tuition fees

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Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

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Journalism at University of Sheffield - UCAS