Course overview
Multi-skilling defines this groundbreaking Bournemouth course– the first in the UK to explore the full potential of multi-platform (convergent) news publishing. It is accredited by the Broadcast Journalism Training Council.
When you leave the course, you will be able to cover any news story for the web, for television, and for radio. You can take a story from one medium and transfer it into another – television to radio – radio to online writing. You can adapt and deepen stories, yet work to the sharpest deadline. And you will be able to edit video, audio and text into packages to international broadcast standards.. Employers are hungry for graduates who can adapt.
Graduates from the course go straight into national and local broadcast news, national and local newspapers, national magazines, and often enjoy an accelerated rate of promotion in their chosen profession. They have a wider choice of career.
Live news publishing, broadcast bulletins across the internet, news stories gathered locally and nationally – all go out from the course news website. Students in professional-standard newsrooms take key roles as editors, news editors, convergence editors, and reporters on the course news website.
As publishers and broadcasters consolidate after the explosion of the internet, core skills are more at a premium than ever. The equal mix of broadcasting and online writing in this intensely practical course sharpens the defining elements of cutting-edge journalism. Your work culminates in a multi-media online documentary project covering a current national or international issue in depth. Meanwhile, the rich mixture of international postgraduates and UK students engage with critical research and ethical controversies at the frontiers of global journalism.
Our selection of students is socially inclusive, and the vast majority at Bournemouth have achieved the qualification they want, once on the course. The course suits new entrants to the profession and those wishing to extend their skills across different media, at home and internationally.
Three students from last year’s M.A. Multi-Media Journalism course have won top awards from the Broadcast Journalism Training Council.
The latest awards include Best Website, which went to Kyriaki Karadelis, and Best Multi-Platform Story, which was jointly won by Simon Essex and Verena Vogt. The course scooped all awards directly connected to multi-media journalism.
Kyriaki’s production project website was about charitable giving. You can see it here
Simon reported on the disappearance of bees
Verena, who came from Germany to study at Bournemouth, decided to investigate the production and use of biofuels in Britain
To see our student online newspaper, Bourne Free
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