Requisites: Pre-requisite: All modules from TRI1 and TRI2 from MA Journalism or MA Sports Journalism

The Journalism Major Project needs a strong subject, one that sells to editors and publishers as a work destined for prime airtime or publication.The Journalism Major Project gives you the chance to mobilise the skills and academic understanding you have acquired on the taught part of the programme to produce a journalistic artefact or series of artefacts of publishable and / or broadcast quality, which is to be accompanied by a professional pitch, with accompanying documentation and a critically reflective essay of 4000 words.The artefact / series of artefacts produced by you must represent a substantial piece of original investigative research which can be dealt with through print, broadcast or online-journalism of a high-quality professional standard. The total volume of this journalistic artefact / series of artefacts will be equivalent to 11000 words, or technical equivalents (for broadcast, or work presented in InDesign etc). This word-count volume can be found in the Journalism Major Project Handbook.

Upon completion of this module you will be able to

LO1: Critically engage with the professional techniques of an extended, industry orientated, research project.

LO2: Critically evaluate and analyse extensive and complex information relevant to the students’ own journalistic practice.

LO3: Display mastery in producing and pitching a piece/pieces of journalism to a professional standard.

LO4: Critically explore and apply the news values, newsgathering and interview skills.

LO5: Critically engage with the theoretical frameworks and key arguments used in the analysis of journalism.

LO6: Plan and execute a major project.