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Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Undergraduate BSc (Hons)
Explore your passion for storytelling and learn how to spot and communicate a story to create a digital presence.
Learn to spot stories and tell them effectively by creating high-quality digital journalism.
Choose from one of the pathways using the links and UCAS codes below:
As part of this course you’ll:
You will be taught by a teaching team with multidisciplinary expertise in journalism, filmmaking, and photography. Your tutors maintain an active involvement in industry and this practice will inform your course experience.
We place significant focus on providing you with skills that will make you attractive to employers – not only as a content maker and storyteller, but also as a well-rounded and resilient individual who will thrive in a fast-paced and changing industry.
This course has strong links with employers, including BBC Yorkshire and JPI Media, publishers of Yorkshire Post and the Yorkshire Evening Post. Your learning will be supported by employers throughout the academic year, who will offer the opportunity to work on a series of live briefs. In recent years this has included social media and photography for the Radio Academy’s ARIAS awards and content production for Latitude and Deer Shed festivals.
You will also have opportunities to meet journalists, content creators and publishers from industry through guest lectures and workshops. Recently, this has included the award-winning conflict photographer Sean Sutton, photographer Marc Langley whose work has appeared in National Geographic, Russ Ellis from Team Sky and Ineos and journalist and publishing director Rob Orchard.
Your learning will be grounded in real-world experiences such as work placements and internships. You could work with a local newspaper or pitch your ideas to an online publication and get your stories in the path of professionals.
You’ll also be able to practise your skills with Be Media, our Students' Union's student-led media project. They provide support and industry links for budding writers, designers, presenters, producers, editors and photographers.
*Graduate Outcomes 2020
BSc Digital Journalism | Course insights