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Digital Journalism at Goldsmiths, University of London - UCAS

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2024 - 2025
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Course summary

With an industry-informed curriculum, this future-focused MA/MSc combines computing and media and communications to reflect digital journalism at its most current. Imagine getting your work recognised by Tim Berners Lee, having your project featured in the The New York Times, or winning the Guardian’s student digital journalist awards. These are the kinds of things that happen on this dynamic programme. The questions we ask

  • From delivering news on wearables, to the latest developments in live reporting, the questions we ask are informed by an industry panel featuring the heads of digital at organisations including The Guardian, the Financial Times, and the BBC. We want to define the transformative nature of digital journalism so we explore critical and entrepreneurial approaches and get hands-on, experimenting with the latest journalistic innovations.
The processes we use
  • It’s really important for us that you graduate with a set of core digital journalism skills so half of the degree focuses on the computing side of the discipline and half on media and communications. This means you get a holistic MA, where you study the foundations of digital journalism and practise it in its most current forms.
  • You’ll have the chance to study multimedia and interactive journalism, look at interactive documentaries, digital reporting, and video journalism. You’ll also learn coding, so you can get to grips with using algorithms and data sets, and do social network analysis to monitor what’s going on behind the screens.
The approach we take
  • Through our partnerships with BBC news labs and The Times’ development team, we make sure we’re keeping up with industry but also working with it.
  • We want you to reimagine the medium while you’re here, so you get the chance to specialise in your own area of interest for your final project. This could be anything from an interactive website to a video production using interactive story telling and text. We offer a lot of support when it comes to the coding side of the course. A boot camp before the start of the programme gives you an introduction to some of the techniques and languages.
  • What you go away with are the core skills for news writing, video, and computational techniques and some amazing industry contacts.
  • The Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies has been ranked 2nd in the UK for 'world-leading or internationally excellent' research (Research Excellence Framework, 2021) and 12th in the world (2nd in the UK) in the 2022 QS World Rankings for communication and media studies.

Modules

Students without a technical background will be encouraged to take our pre-session Digital Bootcamp in September to gain a basic literacy in digital fundamentals, and to get to know fellow students. The degree consists of modules taught by both the Computing Department and the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Department in a truly interdisciplinary and collaborative style. Compulsory modules: Multimedia Journalism 30 credits Critical Social Media Practices 15 credits Media Law and Ethics 15 credits Interactive Data Visualisation 15 credits Digital Sandbox 30 credits MA/MSc in Digital Journalism Major Project/Dissertation News and Power in a Globalised Context 15 credits Please note that due to staff research commitments not all of these modules may be available every year.

Assessment method

You are required to undertake and pass every element of the programme. Each module is individually assessed using a variety of provisions including digital projects, written work, and exam.

Entry requirements

You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least upper second class standard in a relevant/related subject. Applicants with significant work experience and/or a professional qualification in a computing, digital technology or social science-related subject are encouraged. You might also be considered if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that you have the ability to work at postgraduate level. If English isn’t your first language, you will need an IELTS score (or equivalent English language qualification) of 7.0 with a 7.0 in writing and no element lower than 6.5 to study this programme.

Fees and funding

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Additional fee information

Unless otherwise stated the annual fee for part-time programmes is half the full-time fee quoted.
Digital Journalism at Goldsmiths, University of London - UCAS