MA Journalism

at Edinburgh Napier University

If you have a passion for news and an interest in media, along with an instinct to find and produce stories across different platforms: We will teach you to develop skills to make sense of the 24-7 online news schedules, while reporting a story accurately with honesty, integrity and creativity.

Our broadcast studios and multimedia newsrooms provide an industry setting for you to experience journalism first-hand. You’ll gain a firm understanding of media law, ethics and regulations. Furthermore, you will develop your analytical and critical skills to hone your writing, communication and research techniques.

You'll also benefit from studying in Edinburgh, the political, legal, cultural and economic capital of Scotland and recently celebrated as the UK’s leading tech hub. This gives ENU unlimited access to accommodate guest lectures and work placements to help you develop industry contacts and give you the opportunity to work in publishing/broadcasting before you graduate. 

We've used our 40 years’ experience of teaching journalism to shape this degree into one of the most modern courses available. Our curriculum is developed with employers, industry contacts and our teaching staff who have extensive experience as practitioners.

We have a record of close links with BBC Scotland and STV , Bauer media and The Scotsman publications.

Our Subjects include:

• • TV & Multimedia News
• • News Writing – Online & Long Form
• • Radio News & Podcast commentary
• • Media Law, Court & Crime reports & Commentary
• • Magazine publishing: Digital – Investigative – Long Form 
• • Global Current Affairs – critical analysis and theory
• • Major Project – in-depth journalism

How you’ll be taught
• This is a one year (full-time) course, starting in September 2022 and split into three trimesters. Teaching methods combine lectures with specialist workshops in our newsrooms and independent study.
• You will be taught to use software such as Burli (audio), Avid (video) Adobe InDesign (publishing) to edit and broadcast and have access to Radio ENRG and out TV studio.
• The course is taught by a team of media professionals-academics with a background in newspapers/online and broadcasting both in the UK and abroad for such news organisations as BBC, STV, Channel 4, Sky News, Al Jazeera, Swiss TV, Talk Radio, RTE, Vanity Fair, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Scotsman, The Herald, Daily Record, The Conversation etc. Read more to learn more about their professional background

Undergraduate and postgraduate taught degrees 
 

IELTS (Academic)
6.0 overall, with no component below 5.5

TOEFL Internet Based Test
80 overall with a minimum of 17 in listening, 18 in reading, 20 in speaking and 17 in writing

Pearson’s Test of Academic English
56 overall with a minimum of 51 in each component

Cambridge C2 Proficiency (formerly Cambridge English Proficiency (CPE))
169 overall with a minimum of 162 in each component

Cambridge B2 First (formerly Cambridge English First (FCE))
169 overall with a minimum of 162 in each component

Cambridge C1 Advanced (formerly Cambridge English Advanced (CAE))
169 overall with a minimum of 162 in each component

Trinity Integrated Skills Test (ISE)
ISEII, ISEIII, ISEIV with a pass in each component

LanguageCert English language qualification
B2 Communicator Test with overall 39 or above, and 25 or above in all skills

Please note that the tuition fees liable to be paid by EU nationals commencing their studies from 1 August 2021 will be the Overseas fee rate. The University offers a range of attractive Tuition Fee bursaries to students resident in specific countries. More information on these can be found here.    

Careers:-

• Reporter
• Commentator
• News Editor
• Digital Editor
• Feature writer
• Political correspondent
• Producer for broadcast and online