Digital Journalism

Goldsmiths, University of London
Postgraduate MA Full-time 1 Year Digital media, production, and technologyPR and communicationsComputer scienceJournalism

About this course

With an industry-informed curriculum, this future-focused MA/MSc combines computing and media and communications to reflect digital journalism at its most current.

  • Imagine getting your work recognised by Tim Berners Lee, having your project featured in the The New York Times, or winning the Guardian’s student digital journalist awards. These are the kinds of things that happen on this dynamic programme.

  • It’s really important for us that you graduate with a set of core digital journalism skills so half of the degree focuses on the computing side of the discipline and half on media and communications. This means you get a holistic MA, where you study the foundations of digital journalism and practise it in its most current forms.

  • From delivering news on wearables, to the latest developments in live reporting, the questions we ask are informed by an industry panel featuring the heads of digital at organisations including The Guardian, the Financial Times, and the BBC. We want to define the transformative nature of digital journalism so we explore critical and entrepreneurial approaches and get hands-on, experimenting with the latest journalistic innovations.

  • You’ll have the chance to study multimedia and interactive journalism, look at interactive documentaries, data journalism, digital reporting, and video journalism. You’ll learn coding and data analysis techniques, so you can get to grips with web production, data-led investigations and using visualisation in stories. Modules cover specialist skills such as OSINT, verification, generative AI, machine learning and social media analysis to monitor what’s going on behind the screens and break new stories.

  • Through our partnerships with BBC news labs and The Times’ development team, we make sure we’re keeping up with industry but also working with it.

  • We want you to reimagine the medium while you’re here, so you get the chance to specialise in your own area of interest for your final project. This could be anything from an interactive website to a video production using interactive story telling and text. We offer a lot of support when it comes to the coding side of the course.

  • What you go away with are the core skills for news writing, video, and computational techniques and some amazing industry contacts.

  • This degree is part of our School of Journalism.

  • The Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies has been ranked second in the UK for 'world-leading or internationally excellent' research (Research Excellence Framework, 2021) and 16th in the world (third in the UK) in the 2024 QS World Rankings for communication and media studies.

    • Study Options

    This course is available in 4 study options:

    Full-time Shown above

    Duration: 1 Year

    Qualification: MA

    Location: London

    Part-time

    Duration: 2 Years

    Qualification: MA

    Location: London

    Full-time Shown above

    Duration: 1 Year

    Qualification: MSc

    Location: London

    Part-time

    Duration: 2 Years

    Qualification: MSc

    Location: London

    Career Prospects

    Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

    5244 Computer system and equipment installers and servicers
    2139 Information technology professionals
    2134 Programmers and software development professionals
    3417 Photographers, audio-visual and broadcasting equipment operators
    3412 Authors, writers and translators
    3131 IT operations technicians

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    Course Details

    Qualification
    MA
    Study Mode
    Full-time
    Duration
    1 Year
    Start Date
    2025
    Academic Year
    2025
    Campus / Location
    London
    Scheme
    Postgraduate
    Subjects
    Digital media, production, and technology, PR and communications, Computer science, Journalism

    Offered by

    Goldsmiths, University of London

    Lewisham

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