Journalism and Publishing

BA (Hons) Journalism and Publishing will develop your skills in digital and print publishing alongside multiplatform journalism. The course will prepare you for a range of rewarding careers in the media and publishing industries, including in editorial, production and marketing. It will also give you the tools you need to launch your own print and digital magazines or other media product.

You'll start by building your core skills in practical journalism and publishing, learning to investigate, report and create content with an ethical approach. You’ll learn the strategies and theories that inform editorial decision-making and go on to explore how media businesses build audience engagement and generate revenue through subscriptions and paywalls.

This is a hands-on, industry-facing course, and you will collaborate with publishers and organisations on live briefs and projects. You’ll be guided by tutors with extensive professional experience to develop stories and be supported by expert technicians to bring these to life in our industry-standard facilities, including a newsroom, sound and video studios, and digital and print workshops.

In Year 3 you will bring all your learning together to conceive, produce and publish a media product of your choice alongside a business strategy. This will leave you well placed and prepared for roles across the creative industries.

What to expect

• Skills and Knowledge: Expect to develop skills in researching stories, interviewing, journalistic ethics, design and production, project management, audience analysis and business planning.

• Collaboration: This is a key aspect of the course, just like in the creative industries. As well as collaborating with your classmates, you’ll work on projects with industry experts.

• Journalistic integrity: In an age of fake news and AI technologies, you will learn to uphold high standards of accuracy and integrity in all your work.

• Editorial and business strategies: Understanding these is a key feature of the course, enabling you to make decisions on how to communicate with diverse audiences and build communities around your content.

• Learning: You’ll produce and be assessed via portfolios of journalism, research reports and essays into contemporary issues, digital or print publications, editorial strategies and launch plans and presentations.

• Employment: Our graduates can expect to find work across digital content creation, PR and social media marketing, as journalists and editors in media and publishing companies, brand management and editorial production.

About London College of Communication

London College of Communication is for the curious, the brave and the committed: those who want to transform themselves and the world around them. Through a diverse, world-leading community of teaching, research and partnerships with industry, we enable our students to succeed as future-facing creatives in the always-evolving design, media and screen industries.

The London College of Communication experience is all about learning by doing. Our students get their hands dirty and develop their skills through the exploration of our facilities and technical spaces. Students work on live briefs and commissions, with everything from independent start-ups and charities in Southwark, through to major global companies, including Penguin, the National Trust and Royal Mail, to name a few.