Magazine Journalism MA

Who is it for?

This course is suitable for anyone with a first degree in any subject who wants to be a first class magazine journalist. Students must have excellent general knowledge and be prepared to work across print and digital platforms with a variety of content. Students will have passion for communicating in words and pictures - and an appetite for fun and hard work is essential.

Objectives:

This hugely successful and well-established course prepares students for a wide range of careers in magazine and features journalism, both print and online, from glossy consumer titles to international news journals.

Skills taught range from writing long form investigative features to arts and culture reviews; polished profile pieces to podcasts and video editing for online; designing and subbing print and online pages and picture editing.

There is a strong entrepreneurial angle to the course and students learn how to research, create and launch new media products and to engage audiences. Accredited by the Professional Publishers Association, students learn from magazine and specialist journalists and around 30 visiting editors, commissioning editors and editorial directors from the UK’s leading publishing houses.

Placements:

We actively encourage all our journalism student to undertake work placements during their studies with us. Placements are an essential step in developing their career in journalism as they help students put their learning into practice and make contacts in the industry.

Work placements are not formally assessed or arranged as part of the MA Programme but your personal tutor can advise you of suitable organisations to approach.

Career prospects:

Alumni of City’s MA Magazine Journalism course occupy top positions in:

• BBC Panorama
• Bloomberg TV
• Bureau of Investigative Journalism
• Buzzfeed
• CNN
• Greenpeace
• Health Service Journal
• ITN
• Mobile News
• New Statesman
• October Films
• Sky News
• The Art Newspaper
• The Daily Telegraph
• The Financial Times
• The Guardian
• The Spectator
• The Times
• Vice News

This degree is accredited by the Professional Publishers Association (PPA). The 2019 PPA reaccreditation panel described the MA Magazine programme as “a phenomenal course that consistently produces enthused, confident, highly-competent journalists with the correct knowledge, creativity, and capability to thrive in the modern magazine media workplace.