Journalism with Media Studies

This is a Connected Degree

Portsmouth is the only University in the UK with the flexibility to choose when to do an optional paid placement or self-employed year. Either take a placement in your third year, or finish your studies first and complete a placement in your fourth year. You can decide if and when to take a placement after you've started your course.

Overview

Are you a budding critic, publisher, or journalist?

Our BA (Hons) Journalism with Media Studies degree course gives you a critical understanding of the media field while providing a grounding in journalism disciplines and techniques.

You'll learn from published media researchers and expert journalists, as well as using professional-grade media analysis and production facilities. You’ll also develop transferable skills you'll be able to use in any profession.

With the option of taking industry placements and the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) qualifications, you can tailor your study on this course to fit your ideal journalistic or media career.

Course highlights

- Get further professional qualifications by taking National Council for Training Journalists (NCTJ) exams

- Refine your practice by learning from published media researchers and journalists with written and broadcast experience in local, regional, national and international journalism

- Learn more about the journalism and media industries by meeting visiting professionals from industry bodies – past guests include Dream Team FC, The Times, Novara Media, Sky News, and the Cabinet Office at 10 Downing Street

- Gain valuable industry experience by taking optional placements throughout your degree

- Enhance your teamworking skills by collaborating with other students on other courses within the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries

- Capture information at up to 100 words per minute by taking shorthand training

Work towards your NCTJ Diploma
On this course, you can choose to take the examinations that lead to the industry-recognised NCTJ Diploma in Journalism.

If you want to do the full NCTJ diploma alongside your degree, apply for our BA (Hons) Journalism course instead.

Careers and opportunities
Writers, journalists, and media professionals are needed across a wide range of sectors, with communications and marketing being the most popular. Due to the shift to digital and online platforms to adapt to the pandemic, this demand has grown. The non-specialist skills you'll graduate with will also help widen your career options.

The majority of our graduates are in professional roles within two years of graduating, with some progressing to postgraduate study or taking further teacher training to become educators.

Graduate areas

Our graduates have gone on to work in areas such as:

- online, newspaper, magazine and broadcast journalism

- social media

- public relations

- marketing

- corporate communications

- publishing

- teaching (with further study)

Graduate roles

Job roles our graduates have taken on include:

- campaign assistant

- editorial assistant

- PR and marketing assistant

- trainee reporter

- journalist

After you leave the University, you can get help, advice and support for up to 5 years from our Careers and Employability service as you advance in your career.