International Journalism Brunel University London

Overview

From the moment you start the International Journalism program at Brunel University London, you will learn to deliver high-quality video, audio, online, and print journalism geared towards global audiences. You will also learn some of the tools and techniques that fact-checkers and open-source investigators use to check claims and verify or debunk images, increasingly essential skills in an age when misinformation and disinformation proliferate.

Brunel’s course content aims to equip you with digital, multi-platform journalism skills and an advanced understanding of the context of journalism in the fast-changing world of news media. You will study a mix of practical and theory modules contextualising different forms of journalistic practice within a world of technological, political, and cultural change.

Brunel offers you a challenging, employment-orientated programme on a leading journalism course at a London university focusing on international reporting.

Careers and your future

As a graduate of International Journalism MA your skills will be well suited to a variety of roles within journalism, particularly those with an international context, such as:

• Reporters for international news agencies 
• War and foreign correspondents
• Online journalists
• Magazine journalists
• Investigative journalists
• Content producers for mobile platforms

• Communication officer in non-government and private sector organisations

You’ll have a set of media skills that are easily transferred to fields like public relations, marketing, advertising, as well as non-governmental organisations and the public sector.