Sport Broadcast Cardiff Metropolitan University

Overview

The Sport Broadcast course at Cardiff Metropolitan University has been written in collaboration with sport broadcast journalists from the BBC, ITV, and Sky Sports. We teach traditional sports broadcast journalism for the digital, new media age. Emphasis is given to live event production, broadcast news journalism and multi-platform digital storytelling.

Quick Facts:

• Students will develop and master a wide spectrum of broadcast journalism production skills, learn to self-shoot and edit, record and produce audio, create digital content while sharpening their journalistic instinct, news values and editorial judgment. 
• They will critically examine the reciprocal relationship between socio-political issues, modern media coverage and professional sport. Students will also study media law, and analyse how ethics, a sense of fairness, impartiality, accuracy and a robust knowledge of regulations and rights play a crucial part in operating within the modern fast-changing sport broadcasting landscape.
• A 60 credit work placement is designed to ensure that graduates of the programme have had significant “real world experience” and engagement with the industry that will make them uniquely prepared for work in the Sport Broadcast Industry. With its focus on skill acquisition together with academic reflection on the socio-political implications of Sport, graduates from this programme will be able to meet the needs of a rapidly developing Sport Broadcast industry.
• Our graduates now work as reporters, presenters, researchers, content creators, producers, marketing executives and social media managers with a range of broadcasters, brands and governing bodies. They are at Sky Sports, BBC, S4C, Whisper Films, WRU, FAW, Hockey Wales, Glamorgan Cricket, Bath Rugby, Livewire Sports, Sunset and Vine, BT Sport, DAZN and IMG. There is also the opportunity to pursue further study in the area of Sports Media and Sport Broadcast should any students wish to explore a PHD.