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Study Details: 1 year 3 months full-time (45 weeks across a four-term model)
MA Journalism: Arts and Lifestyle Journalism is a multimedia course with a strong industry focus that supports you to develop solid multiplatform journalism skills.
You’ll explore journalism about creative disciplines and popular culture in areas such as art, food, fashion, music, photography, film and travel.
You’ll learn how to tell stories about societal changes that reflect the ways in which we live, work and perceive ourselves.
You’ll have the opportunity to work on projects with industry partners, drawing on our close links with organisations such as The Guardian, Vice, Dazed and Women in Journalism. You’ll also be given guidance in freelancing and entrepreneurship and you will gain insights from guest speakers representing a range of national newspapers, magazines, broadcasters and websites.
MA Journalism is in Full Time mode which runs for 45 weeks over 15 months. You will be expected to commit 40 hours per week to study.
Offers will be made based on the following selection criteria, which applicants are expected to demonstrate:
Graduates of the course go on to work in a range of roles. Some become journalists across newspapers, broadcasters, online publications, or art, design, lifestyle and food magazines, or become editors for magazines and other publications.
Others take on communications roles for fashion and lifestyle brands or major art institutions, choose to set up their own publications, or work as freelance journalists across a range of different titles.
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We are committed to ensuring that your skills are set within an ethical framework and are embedding UAL’s Principles for Climate, Social and Racial Justice into this course.
This unit will introduce you to the core practical journalism skills of research, interviewing, reporting, and pitching, along with basic legal principles.
You’ll also develop skills in idea generation and development, primary and secondary research, understanding audiences and their interests through data and analytics, narrative, editing, and promoting work on social media. Throughout this unit, you’ll produce a portfolio of journalistic work for submission.
You’ll explore ethical, theoretical and contextual issues relating to Arts and Lifestyle Journalism including its definitions and possibilities, discussing how it could be a robust and potentially disruptive form of storytelling.
Particular attention is given to issues of globalisation, consumption, representation, diversity, travel, aesthetics, and taste. You’ll also explore issues of creativity and experimentation in journalism, and discuss its position within the wider creative industries.
In this unit, you'll develop in-demand skills in mobile video journalism, learning how to shoot, edit and embed eye-catching short-form video for social media to build engagement with online audiences.
You’ll develop skills in a range of journalistic forms relating to Arts and Lifestyle Journalism, focusing on primary and secondary research, building narratives and promoting your work on social media.
This will include reviewing, profile writing and reported features for print and online, and you’ll also be encouraged to experiment with creative approaches to your journalistic practice.
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