Our Broadcast Journalism BA(Hons) is designed to prepare you for an exciting career in TV news, radio, podcasting, social media – or all these areas.

 

Like society and technology, these industries are constantly changing, and we’ll give you the best possible grounding to succeed in the future.

 

You’ll build your creative and technical skills in video and audio journalism and make the most of online and social tools. Meanwhile, by analysing the media and how we use it today, you’ll better understand 21st Century journalism.

 

Why study Broadcast Journalism BA(Hons)

The course is accredited by The Broadcast Journalism Training Council (BJTC).

 

On this course, you’ll get hands-on with our impressive facilities, including TV and radio studios, professional cameras, editing software and more.

 

You’ll learn from our leading academics about the challenges and opportunities facing broadcast journalism. Work placement opportunities will help you gain skills in a professional newsroom, where you’ll have chance to produce news content across TV, radio and online - and to real-world deadlines.

 

An impressive 100% of graduates from this course are in work and/or further study 15 months after graduating (Unistats 20/21 data, UK domiciled graduates). Following this degree, you may go on to pursue a career within broadcasting, both digital and on TV, digital journalism, multimedia journalism, radio or more. You could opt to continue your postgraduate education instead, on a television production course, in music journalism, sports journalism, media and popular culture, or publication studies.

 

Recent graduates work at the BBC, ITV, and for a variety of other broadcasters*.

 

Journalism at Huddersfield is also top in Yorkshire for Assessment and Feedback, scoring 93%, based on experimental statistics from the National Student Survey 2023.