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Discover your route into visual journalism through our distinctive Television Journalism MA program. Gain hands-on experience and essential insights from industry experts while completing practical work placements. Master the process of discovering, investigating, crafting, scripting, filming, and editing visual narratives for various formats, from social media clips to television broadcasts and documentary films. Develop multimedia expertise during weekly news simulations, taking on roles like producer, anchor, field reporter, or director to assemble a 30-minute live broadcast complete with on-location segments and digital content. You'll acquire the techniques to conceptualize, produce, script, shoot, and assemble a compelling 28-minute documentary with striking visuals. Learn to operate within ethical and legal boundaries while cultivating your creative visual style. Your training will mirror real-world newsroom environments, completing time-sensitive journalistic projects. Develop fundamental journalism competencies in intimate cohorts of 15+ students through interactive lectures, practical sessions, and simulated broadcast scenarios. While some classes occur in lecture halls, most instruction happens in small workshop groups to refine your journalistic abilities. Learn from an extensive roster of active media professionals with diverse industry experience. City University boasts an unparalleled alumni network in UK broadcast journalism. Our graduates enjoy some of the strongest career prospects nationwide, with recent alumni securing positions as researchers, producers, and reporters at premier outlets including Reuters, Sky News, Sky Sports, Al Jazeera, France 24, BBC News, BBC World Service, Euro News, ITV Daytime, CNN, and Associated Press.