postgraduate open evenings

Feb 2012

15

Wednesday

Postgraduate Open Evening

Find out more about our Masters degree courses, and meet academic staff and students.


Sign up now for our next Postgraduate Open Evening on Wednesday 15 February 2012.

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Student work

Follow what our current students are saying, writing and producing.
 

Read their published articles, some of their personal blogs and websites, their group projects, and their Tweets.

Global alumni network

Apply now for our Journalism BA degrees

City has launched the careers of over 4,000 graduates and postgraduates including James Harding (Editor, The Times) and Sophie Raworth (BBC News). Former Guardian editor Peter Preston calls City "the passport to a successful career in journalism". Find out more about our Journalism BA and Journalism and a Social Science BA.

Department of Journalism

City is a world leader in Journalism education

Has accrued legendary status within the media. The Independent

Graduate prospects

Our graduates have an unrivalled employment rate - 96 per cent of City Journalism MA  graduates from 2010 found employment within six months of completing their course

Formidable alumni network

Our 4,000-strong alumni network includes national newspaper and magazine editors, news anchors and renowned journalists including: James Harding (Editor, The Times); Sophie Raworth (presenter, BBC News); Fraser Nelson (Editor, The Spectator); Will Lewis (general manager, News International); John Mullin (Editor, Independent on Sunday); Dermot Murnaghan (Sky); Faisal Islam (Channel 4 News); Ben Preston (Editor, Radio Times Magazine); Caroline Faraj (Head of CNN Arabic); Saeed Kamali Dehghan (2010 Foreign Press Association Journalism of the Year).

See our City Journalism alumni Twitter list

See the top Tweeters among our alumni on the City Journalism Alumni Peer Index group.

City seems to be the journalism school with the most clout among media employers. Francis Beckett, The Times

Outstanding academic staff

Our academic staff, led by Professor George Brock (former managing editor of The Times), includes Professor Roy Greenslade (media commentator), Visiting Professors Paul Bradshaw (blogger and online journalist) and Heather Brooke (journalist and FOI campaigner), Professor David Leigh (investigations editor of The Guardian), Lis Howell (former Managing Editor of Sky News) and Professor Stewart Purvis (former Editor-in-Chief of ITN)  

Studios and newsrooms

Our state-of-the-art facilities include a television studio, four radio studios and six multimedia newsrooms

London location

Our central London location puts you on the doorstep of the world's major news and media organisations

High-profile public lectures

We regularly hold public events featuring prominent figures in the world of journalism. In the Autumn Term 2011, Wadah Khanfar (former Director-General of the Al Jazeera network), Heather Brooke (journalist and FOI campaigner), Baroness Buscombe (then Chair, Press Complaints Commission) and the Attorney General, Dominic Grieve QC MP, all gave public lectures.

What's the passport to journalism? The dreaming spires of... City University. Peter Preston, former Editor of The Guardian
 

Download a prospectus

MA Journalism 2012 course brochureDownload our latest MA Journalism prospectus to:

- read course outlines
- see detailed module information
- get top tips from City Journalism graduates
- read about our alumni
- find out how to prepare for the MA

Click on the prospectus, right, to download a PDF.

If you are interested in taking an undergraduate (Bachelor) course in Journalism at City, download our undergraduate prospectus or find out more about the BA Journalism degree course online.

Meet this year's students

Chart the progress of Callum Winterford (Journalism BA) and Erica Buist (Magazine Journalism MA) during their studies by following their video diaries. You can watch their first diary entries below, and subscribe to the City Journalism YouTube channel for updates.