Journalism, Media and Culture (Honours) Newcastle University

Overview

The  Journalism, Media and Culture (Honours) programme from Newcastle University focuses on developing your writing, production and communication skills across a range of platforms. You'll be well prepared for a career in a fast-changing media environment as a proactive journalist or media professional. 

This hands-on degree programme ensures you develop the practical skills critical in multimedia journalism, as well as an in-depth academic knowledge across all aspects of journalism and media theory. 

You'll master the ability to write for print, online and broadcast and to produce audio and video content for online multimedia.

Your knowledge of the issues and debates in media and cultural studies will be supplemented with a thorough grounding in cultural studies, journalism history, media law and political communications. 

You'll become a highly skilled media professional with an in-depth and critical understanding of the roles media and culture play in our society, ready for an exciting career working in journalism and media. 

Career opportunities:

You will develop the skills needed to be a successful multimedia journalist. You will also be exposed to a broad commercial and cultural awareness of the media and creative industries, both from academic staff and media practitioners.

Students from our Journalism, Media and Culture degree have followed a variety of career paths in the industry, such as: 

• print, online, broadcast and multimedia journalism

• broadcast production

• social media editing and planning

• script-writing

• public relations, communications and market research