Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism and Media Communications

Course details

This postgraduate programme delivers a comprehensive syllabus of media skills. It is designed to equip students with the key practical competencies needed to work in a professional media environment today along with the critical academic depth of a postgraduate qualification. During the course, students will be challenged in real journalistic situations including producing articles to deadline, editing, designing and printing newspapers, magazines or creating online news content. Radio skills from recording and editing interviews, creating podcasts and running a radio station 24/7 are part of the course work on this programme. Students can also choose a range of media specialisms including Video journalism where students shoot, edit and present their own news package, as well as Sports Journalism, Photojournalism, International Political Economy and Business of Digital Media. Acquiring key media skills is one aspect of the course. Mastering them involves developing a critical depth through an understanding of essential media, communications and sociological theories. This will give students the critical depth necessary to become media professionals and more rounded communicators, capable of taking up media employment upon graduation. Students on the MA will produce an independent piece of written research by dissertation or by practice through film, radio or photography. Students wishing to undertake just the Postgraduate Diploma are not required to complete the Dissertation.

THE BEST BITS OF GRIFFITH MEDIA

National Student Media Competitions: Griffith College consistently excels at the Smedia awards. Three of the past four winners of TV Production of the year have been Griffith media students, while in 2014, Griffith students won four Smedia awards and were nominated in a further 12 categories. In 2013, all finalists in the Photographer of the Year category were from Griffith College. The 2014 students won Blog of the Year which you can check out at: www.thecircular.org. Griffith students also won short story of the Year as well as Best TV Production and Best Radio Production. View our excellent track record in the Smedias across the page.

Our Recent Smedia record:

• Blog of the Year
• Radio Production of the Year
• TV Production of the Year
• Short Story of the Year
• Photographer of the Year
• Sports Photographer of the Year

Press pass:

National Union of Journalists recognition of our degree and masters programmes entitles students to apply for a NUJ Press Card for the duration of their course.

Industry links:

Lecturers in Griffith’s Journalism and Media Faculty are drawn from successful media companies including RTE, Newstalk and Setanta amongst others.

Successful Alumni:

Graduates are currently working in the Irish and Sunday Independent, Sunday World, RTE radio and television, Newstalk, Sunday Times, Evening Herald, Irish Daily Mirror, Irish Daily Mail, Irish Star, Irish Sun, TV3, Harmonia Magazines as well as other titles in the magazine sector, other rother regional commercial radio stations and weekly newspapers. A number of learners are professional contract photographers, or work independently in the film & TV sector as well as in online media, public relations and marketing.

Facilities:

• On-campus Radio Station: broadcasting studios (1 on-air and 1 off-air)
• 4 Photographic Studios
• 3 Dark Rooms 1 TV and Video Studio
• 1 Sound Engineering Studio
• 2 Multimedia Production Rooms Multiple Student Publications