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This one-year vocational course equips postgraduate students with the essential skills and knowledge to pursue a career in radio and television journalism in the UK. The Masters degree builds on the strengths of the prestigious postgraduate diploma course and offers students the opportunity to produce a radio or television documentary, or dissertation. The course is accredited by the Broadcast Journalism Training Council. Entry into the profession is competitive and most employers recruit new journalists only if they have completed a recognised postgraduate course. The course provides training and support in an environment that enables students to reach the high standards of professional competence demanded by the industry. Don't just take our word for it- listen to what our top Journalism graduates have to say on U-tube. The Masters degree builds on the strengths of the prestigious postgraduate diploma course and offers students the chance to produce a radio or television documentary or dissertation. The course has a reputation for the quality of its students and their success in obtaining employment in the broadcast industry.The programme has been running since 1981 and is accredited by the Broadcast Journalism Training Council. Entry into the profession is competitive and most employers recruit new journalists only if they have completed a recognised postgraduate course. The course provides training and support in an environment that enables students to reach the high standards of professional competence demanded by the industry.The journalism elements of the course are taught mainly in a practical way, with the emphasis on learning by doing. Students work in a newsroom atmosphere and undertake real tasks involving live issues in the city and surrounding area. It is a challenging and enjoyable way to learn. In radio, students learn how to report and write news stories for radio and the web conduct interviews produce news packages present news programmes and live broadcasts compile news bulletins edit digital audio and use the professional studio equipment. In the television studio students produce news magazine programmes, learning all roles from presenting, reporting, scripting and producing to digitally editing and transmitting programmes from the TV gallery. In the third semester (May to September) you will choose either to produce a radio or television documentary, or a 15,000 word dissertation on an important issue facing the broadcast industry. You will also study Law and Public Administration. The course has five sound studios, each with professional mixing desks and computers, a large talks studio, and a television studio, with remote cameras, lighting, Autocue, control room and AVID digital editing suite. The broadcast newsroom is equipped with telephones, digital editing workstations, ENPS and Burli news management systems, AVID iNews and news feeds from Independent Radio News and the Press Association. The course enjoys excellent support from the broadcast industry. Students benefit from frequent guest lectures and excellent work placement opportunities. News editors and producers from radio and TV visit regularly to work with students. The work placements in the Spring are an essential part of the course and students are expected to spend at least three weeks in a BBC or commercial radio newsroom and one week at a television programme or company. Most assessed work is in the form of practical assignments. For radio, students submit a portfolio of work, including a news bulletin, interview and news package. For television, students work on a variety of assignments. For Law and Public Administration students must produce an essay and pass a final examination.