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  • DeadlineStudy Details: MA 1 year full-time 2 years part-time

Course Description

You will be challenged to create content for your favoured sports including cricket, rugby, football, golf, tennis, cycling, boxing, MMA and global sports of your choosing, across your period of study.

This content will be assessed within modules, but will also then be tailored to deliver maximum impact through your portfolios, showreels and future job applications. You can expect to learn the practical application of law and regulation in journalism as well as ethics.

  • Develop a deep understanding of essential theory and best practice.
  • Provide technical training to enable remarkable multi-media reporting and production.
  • Potential access to major sports industry events and live reporting opportunities

Entry Requirements

Applicants should hold an honours degree of 2:1 or above in any subject. Applications from candidates with relevant experience will be considered on an individual basis.

Successful applicants are usually expected to hold a good honours degree, or equivalent. Applicants may be invited to interview or to provide a portfolio of work.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

Funding opportunities including scholarships available

Student Destinations

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

  • create sports content to professional standards for digital, broadcast, print and social media
  • understand how the sports journalism industry works and how it connects with the broad and rapidly evolving sports industry including authorities, clubs, talent/athletes, brands, PR firms and agencies
  • source news and feature content ahead of packaging this to engage a large audience
  • develop stories beyond their news core for multiplatform roll-out, to ensure coverage reaches the maximum audience
  • build relationships across the sport and sports media spectrum
  • apply a wide range of journalism and communication skills and knowledge to the production of sports content to professional standards.

Module Details

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