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City, University of London: Magazine Journalism
Institution | City, University of London View institution profile |
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Department | Department of Journalism View department profile |
Web | https://www.city.ac.uk |
scc-admissions@city.ac.uk | |
Study type | Taught |
MA
Summary
Build essential skills in magazine journalism by learning to produce and write for online and print publications. A highly practical course that prepares you for professional journalism. Our MA also requires you to take up to seven weeks of relevant work experience. This is a course primarily focused on getting you a job in the industry.
You will meet and receive advice from leading journalists in various fields and have access to City’s outstanding alumni network.
Recent graduates have gone on to work in publications as varied as Sunday Times Culture, The Economist, Cosmopolitan, Time Out, Vice, Stylist and The Independent, as well as hosting hit podcasts and writing bestsellers.
This programme covers everything from writing news stories, longform features and reviews to producing profile pieces and multimedia content. You will also leave the course with skills in magazine design, subbing, law and digital publishing.
Part of the course will involve creating and launching a new website brand, as well as producing City’s 160-page print alumni magazine.
Level | RQF Level 7 |
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Entry requirements | You should hold an upper second class honours degree or the equivalent from an international institution. You should also have a minimum of four weeks’ work experience in magazines or newspapers. Student journalism or self published journalism, such as a good quality blog, is also considered relevant and may be enough to secure a place on the MA. |
Location | Northampton Square Finsbury Islington EC1V 0HB |
Fees
EU | 22733 GBP for Year 1 |
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International | 22733 GBP for Year 1 |
England | 11361 GBP for Year 1 |
Scotland | 11361 GBP for Year 1 |
Wales | 11361 GBP for Year 1 |
Northern Ireland | 11361 GBP for Year 1 |
Summary
This course is suitable for anyone with a first degree in any subject who wants to be a first class magazine journalist. Students must have excellent general knowledge and be prepared to work across print and digital platforms with a variety of content. Students will have passion for communicating in words and pictures - and an appetite for fun and hard work is essential.
Magazine Journalism students write, design and produce the department’s showcase magazine XCity and its website Xcityplus.com. Read the latest digital edition and check out the listings at the back to find out where our graduates are working now.
This hugely successful and well-established course prepares students for a wide range of careers in magazine and features journalism, both print and online, from glossy consumer titles to international news journals.
Skills taught range from writing long form investigative features to arts and culture reviews; polished profile pieces to podcasts and video editing for online; designing and subbing print and online pages and picture editing.
There is a strong entrepreneurial angle to the course and students learn how to research, create and launch new media products and to engage audiences. Accredited by the Professional Publishers Association, students learn from magazine and specialist journalists and around 30 visiting editors, commissioning editors and editorial directors from the UK’s leading publishing houses.
We have been running Journalism courses at City since 1976. In the years since, over 5,000 students have graduated and are now working in the media in the UK and internationally.
Level | RQF Level 7 |
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Entry requirements | You should hold an upper second class honours degree or the equivalent from an international institution. You should also have a minimum of four weeks’ work experience in magazines or newspapers. Student journalism or self published journalism, such as a good quality blog, is also considered relevant and may be enough to secure a place on the MA. |
Location | Northampton Square Finsbury Islington EC1V 0HB |
Fees
EU | 21650 GBP for Year 1 |
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International | 21650 GBP for Year 1 |
England | 10820 GBP for Year 1 |
Scotland | 10820 GBP for Year 1 |
Wales | 10820 GBP for Year 1 |
Northern Ireland | 10820 GBP for Year 1 |
City’s School of Communication & Creativity is a socially engaged and politically conscious centre of educational excellence and world-changing interdisciplinary research which shapes and influences professional practice.
We support and develop the next generation of practitioners and entrepreneurs who work across, the cultural, creative, music, heritage and media sectors. We are deeply committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, and we are working to transform these sectors by educating and empowering students from under-represented backgrounds, and supporting them to excel.
The School brings together our renowned Department of Journalism, with two new Departments: The Department of Media, Culture and Creative Industries; …
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