Magazine Journalism (Taught)

Reasons to choose Kingston

• Kingston has a successful partnership with magazine publisher Haymarket, which offers placements, joint projects and job opportunities.

• You will produce an online and print magazine. For the last three years it has been shortlisted for, and/ or won, the national Student Publication Awards.

• Our popular design classes will cover professional training in both InDesign and Photoshop. You will produce video journalism and podcasts as well as having access to the new media lab at our Knights Park campus and the new library’s dedicated magazines/journals area.

About this course
This course features hands-on activities such as feature writing, interviewing, sub-editing, magazine production, blogging, and writing and uploading online copy. In an editorial team, you will produce two magazines and a magazine website and undertake a placement on a published title. You will also have the opportunity to study magazine design, production, fashion and sport or data journalism. Finally, you will carry out a 12–15,000 word dissertation or a related practical project.

Example modules

• Creating Magazines: Content and Context

• Feature Writing

• Journalism in Context: Law, Ethics and the Industry

For a full list of modules please visit the Kingston University course webpage.