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Broadcast Journalism

BA(Hons)
UCAS code: PL52

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Become the next national news reader presenting news bulletins from our hi-tech broadcast newsroom or report from the latest trouble spots around the world
Broadcast Journalism Training Council accredited
Learn the cut and thrust of broadcasting with a team of tutors with top professional backgrounds within the BBC and Independent broadcasting

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Read Broadcast Journalism course information (PDF, file size: 337.72KB)

What our students say

"The radio newsroom at the University is very modern. A lot of the equipment is better than that used at Signal Radio where I have been working since I graduated.”

Katie Helliwell, BA(Hons) Broadcast Journalism

What it’s about

BA(Hons) Broadcast Journalism is a very popular course accredited by the BJTC. It is mostly taught in our state-of-the-art bi-media Broadcast Newsroom.

We teach how to write the news and present it on TV, radio and online, how to be a reporter, how to interview, how to use a TV camera and how to produce and direct in a studio. You’ll be learning on the latest, industry-standard equipment, with feeds from PA and IRN and access to digital TV output. Students cover a wide range of stories – reporting on events in their local community, national political stories, international affairs, sports news and even celebrity gossip.

What you do

You will learn to use technical equipment, including radio and TV studios, TV cameras and digital editing equipment. We also teach the politics of broadcast journalism and the media, how national and local government works and the legal and ethical issues involved in airbroadcast journalism. You will be able to take the NCTJ exams in law and shorthand.

The course includes a three-week work placement, usually in a real newsroom. Multi-media news days start in year one, each week and throughout the next two years. During your final year, you will produce and direct a documentary feature. By the end of the course, you should be able to perform a confident piece to camera and sight read a news bulletin.

The teaching staff have many years experience of working in TV and radio journalism.

The course has full accreditation from the Broadcast Journalism Training Council.

BA(Hons) Broadcast Journalism Programme Specification (PDF, file size: 57.33KB)

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Qualification:	BA(Hons)
Faculty/School:	Faculty of Arts, Media and Design
Location:	Stoke Campus
Course Length:	Normally three years full-time; up to eight years part-time.
Entry Requirements:	All applicants are individually assessed on their qualifications, skills and experience. However a typical three A level or BTEC National Diploma offer will be 300 - 260 UCAS tariff points (Plus interview and voice test).
UCAS Code:	PL52