Program Description

Good journalists need traditional skills like spotting big stories and excellent newswriting and digital skills like video editing and social media. The program faculty have decades of journalistic experience, and teach all these techniques expertly.

As part of this course, students will practise journalism for real, covering their own patches in the city. Every assignment will present a different challenge. Students could be on location filming for a documentary. Students may be reporting from a courtroom on the details of a criminal prosecution. Another day, students might be interviewing a politician or a sports star. Their work experience will build up their portfolios and CVs. The University of Sheffield's many connections in the media industry help to open up a huge range of work experience opportunities.

The best journalists aren't just good at working a camera and note-taking in shorthand. The best journalists understand the difference between good and bad journalism. They also grasp the responsibilities of their profession and its rich history. They know that journalism is about right and wrong, war and peace, liberty and democracy. It's about the life stories of people, societies, and entire continents.

Our BA Journalism Studies course is currently accredited by the National Council for the Training of Journalists and the Professional Publishers Association.