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In our increasingly digital world, journalists are frequently called upon to report on diverse global issues and this course prepares you for global journalism and public relations practice and analysis, covering all areas of journalism, from legal and ethical issues to interviewing, writing, broadcast and web skills.
Year of entry
Location
Coventry University (Coventry)
Study mode
Full-time
Duration
1 year full-time
16-24 months (with professional experience)
Course code
AHT016
Start date
September 2025
January 2026
At Coventry University, we continuously review the courses we offer to ensure we reflect industry-relevant emerging best practice and technology. As a result, this course is undergoing continuous improvement assessment and will be launched with a renewed curriculum starting in September 2025. Module content and titles will be updated. Course title, learning outcomes and assessments may also change. We expect our new curriculum to be fully updated by January 2025. Please return to this page to see the final course details.
Covering key areas ranging from legal and ethical issues to interviewing, writing, broadcast and web skills, this course prepares you for global journalism and public relations practice and analysis in a digital and diverse world.
The Global Journalism and Public Relations MA course helped me build a portfolio that prepares me for job hunting as a professional journalist. I got the unique opportunity to gain an in-depth knowledge of journalism and communications, leading me to be named joint-winner in the broadcasting (television) category of the Midlands Media Student's Awards 2023.
Rima Ayoubi, Global Journalism and Public Relations MA, quoted 2023
The professional experience opportunity2 enables you the opportunity to apply for optional professional experience in semester 1, which, upon successfully securing an opportunity, will extend the duration of your master’s to either 16, 20 or 24 months. The professional experience provides an opportunity for you to develop expertise and experience in your chosen field with the aim of enhancing your employability.
Please note that the optional professional experience modules incur an additional tuition fee, which for one semester of professional experience is £1,333.33, for two semesters of professional experience is £2,666.67, and for three semesters of professional experience is £4,000.
Professional experience may also be subject to additional costs, visa requirements being met, subject to availability and/or competitive application. Professional experience opportunities are not guaranteed but you will benefit from the support of our Talent Team in trying to find and secure an opportunity. Find out more about the professional experience option.
We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.
The course covers journalism theory and practice, and specialist knowledge and techniques specific to global journalism and public relations.
Each module is taught over approximately 11 weeks with formal course teaching typically taking place over two to three full working days per week. The specialist staff include former news and features writers with wide experience in global news reporting and academic research. Other tutors include specialists in magazines, digital media and emerging platforms, as well as public relations.
Teaching methods include:
The number of full-time contact hours may vary from semester to semester, however, on average, it is likely to be around 10 contact hours per week in the first two semesters. The contact hours may be made up of a combination of face-to-face teaching, individual and group tutorials, and online classes and tutorials.
Additionally, you will be expected to undertake significant self-directed study of approximately 27 hours each week, depending on the demands of individual modules.
The contact hours may be made up of a combination of face-to-face teaching, individual and group tutorials, and online classes and tutorials.
As an innovative and enterprising institution, the university may seek to utilise emerging technologies within the student experience. For all courses (whether on-campus, blended, or distance learning), the university may deliver certain contact hours and assessments via online technologies and methods.
Since COVID-19, we have delivered our courses in a variety of forms, in line with public authority guidance, decisions, or orders and we will continue to adapt our delivery as appropriate. Whether on campus or online, our key priority is staff and student safety.
This course will be assessed using a variety of methods which could vary depending upon the module.
Assessment methods include:
Please note that final and summative assessments are predominantly individual submissions and assignments, even where elements are derived from group or collaborative work/projects.
The Coventry University assessment strategy aims to ensure that our courses are fairly assessed and allows us to monitor student progression towards achieving the intended learning outcomes.
Our course is designed to reflect the increasingly international context of journalism - this is reflected strongly in the course curriculum. Content includes conflict/war situations, governments and inter-governmental organisations, markets and business, civil society and non-governmental actors. You may have opportunities2 to undertake preparatory research before visiting a foreign country or covering an international event and areas include finding and relating with fixer/s, timelines/zones and deadlines, cultural contexts, technological and environmental factors, security considerations, ethical and legal dilemmas.
You will be given opportunities2 to engage with international students at home and abroad, for example, through collaborative online international learning projects such as Pop-up Newsroom and Global News Relay. We also offer a range of short visits and field trips abroad2, which are reviewed annually. Recent field trips have included Kenya and Tanzania to cover the urban environment and tourism, as well as Bangladesh, Malaysia, Gibraltar and Italy to write about landscape, culture and food.
The most exciting moments on this course are those in which students have glints in their eyes, like when their course magazine is just published online or ‘hot off the press’ prints arrive on campus, after they’ve watched the broadcast of their segment on Global Pop-up News and Global News Relay, or when they rub shoulders with prolific and distinguished guests during high-profile events such as the Global Peace Forum hosted by our Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations.
These challenging yet rewarding undertakings help students build their portfolios, confidence and networks useful for professional experience and employability.
Dr Fred Mudhai, Global Journalism and Public Relations MA Course Director, 2023
Student | Full-time | Part-time |
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UK, Ireland*, Channel Islands or Isle of Man | 2025/26 fees TBC 2024/25 fees - £11,200 | £15,200 (with prof. experience) |
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EU | 2025/26 fees TBC 2024/25 fees - £11,200 | £15,200 (with prof. experience) per year with EU Support Bursary** 2025/26 fees TBC 2024/25 fees - £18,600 | £22,600 (with prof. experience) per year without EU Support Bursary** |
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International | 2025/26 fees TBC 2024/25 fees - £18,600 | £22,600 (with prof. experience) |
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For advice and guidance on tuition fees3 and student loans visit our Postgraduate Finance page.
We offer a range of international scholarships to students all over the world. For more information, visit our International Scholarships page.
Tuition fees3 cover the cost of your teaching, assessments, facilities and support services. There may be additional costs not covered by this fee such as accommodation and living costs, recommended reading books, stationery, printing and re-assessments should you need them.
The following are additional costs not included in the tuition fees:
The rights of Irish residents to study in the UK are preserved under the Common Travel Area arrangement. If you are an Irish student and meet the residency criteria, you can study in England, pay the same level of tuition fees as English students and utilise the Tuition Fee Loan.
Following the UK's exit from the European Union, we are offering financial support to all eligible EU students who wish to study an undergraduate or a postgraduate degree with us full-time. This bursary will be used to offset the cost of your tuition fees to bring them in line with that of UK students. Students studying a degree with a foundation year with us are not eligible for the bursary.
Our facilities4 help develop your practical skills so you feel prepared to enter the workplace and inspire your passion for journalism.
You will have access to professional equipment via our dedicated Media Loan Shop and our newsrooms, TV studio, video editing suite and radio studios.
You’ll have access to our on-site television studio The Tank, offering specialist equipment such as large cameras, mixing facilities and fibre-optic wiring throughout.
Our media loan shop provides you with access to the equipment and support you need to excel in your studies – from basic audio recorders to professional cameras and expert advice from our technicians.
Two radio studies, one digital and the other analogue, are available for radio-audio journalism classes as well as student bookings for independent work.
Upon successful completion of this course, you should know how to:
This course prepares you for a broad range of positions in regional, national or international journalism, media, communications and PR – as a researcher, reporter, writer, editor or presenter, for example.
Career prospects are vast and varied, from established national and international media outlets, broadcasting organisations, newspapers and magazines, to emerging broadcast contexts, such as web-based text journalism, web-TV and web-radio.
Our Talent Team is on hand to offer tailored career and enterprise support if you wish to gain employment or take advantage of professional practice opportunities within course-specific industries2. The course equips students for work in a wider range of careers that require transferable knowledge and skills such as global awareness, research, writing and communication with specific or general audiences including via various media. Our dedicated enterprise officers also can offer valuable assistance on how to begin as a freelancer/entrepreneur.
Due to the focused and transferable skills that the course offers, our graduates have secured jobs in diverse areas that include TV reporter and presenter at Porto Canal channel in Portugal, radio reporter with German public broadcaster NDR in Hamburg, staff journalist at a Turkish news agency foreign desk, freelance journalist, managing editor for a specialist UK outlet on camping and caravanning, web publisher at global public relations and advertising agency Cheil, marketing for retail chain Sonae MC in Portugal, public relations and marketing communications with London-based Four Agency Worldwide, strategic relationships at associate director level with UK regulator Ofqual, digital workplace manager in Europe, the Middle East and Africa for Canada-based international investment agency Colliers and senior administrator at Coventry City Council.
This course has helped me in jump-starting my career as a journalist. The many journalistic projects I got to participate in because of this course helped me in building a professional portfolio that I can be proud of.
Jana Buxbaumova, Global Journalism and Public Relations MA, 2022/23.