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At Cardiff Met we offer two postgraduate degrees that fully prepare you for a career in journalism and sport broadcast. Our unique master’s degrees cover traditional, digital and new age media and have a strong practical focus with work placements reinforcing learning, ensuring you are industry ready.

Our MA Specialist Journalism, located in the Cardiff School of Education & Social Policy, develops your communication and writing skills while focusing on your specific specialism, and allowing you to grow in confidence as a specialist fashion, film, food, music, tv, or sport journalist. You will not only develop your print and online journalism, but also a wide range of multimedia production skills, learning to self-shoot and edit, record and produce audio, create digital content while sharpening your journalistic instinct, news values and editorial judgment.

Our MSc Sport Broadcast, delivered by the Cardiff School of Sport & Health Sciences, is designed by sports broadcast industry professionals to create practitioners of Sport Broadcast and prepare them to be “industry ready” for employment in sport broadcast journalism and right across the sport media industry. The Master’s degree course has been written in collaboration with sport broadcast journalists from the BBC, ITV, and Sky Sports. We teach traditional sports broadcast journalism for the digital, new media age. Emphasis is given to live event production, broadcast news journalism and multi-platform digital storytelling.

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“The MA Specialist Journalism helped me as a journalist and gave me so much more confidence within my craft. I chose to specialise in Sports Journalism initially and secured some great internships that shaped my understanding of the industry and boosted my CV in the process. My time with World Snooker was so beneficial as I was given duties such as interviewing players and attending press conferences. My next experience came with the illustrious Sky Sports News, before being accepted onto a 3-month internship with Minute Media company, 90min. I’m currently writing with urban music channel Link Up TV, an opportunity I’m thankful for every day.”

Stephen Jones
MA Specialist Journalism

 
 

“There are never-ending opportunities at Cardiff Met. Being a part of the media team for such a successful sporting university was an amazing opportunity to learn and develop across many aspects. One opportunity was getting to work with and learn from the Ball State Sports Link students enrolled in the number 1 rated Sports Production University course in the USA, based at Ball State University. Ball State students collaborated with us on identifying, developing, and producing feature stories on Welsh athletes attached to Cardiff. Whilst they visited us in Cardiff, we worked together to capture footage, scenes, and interviews with the athletes. This whole experience was an invaluable part of the programme.”

Tim Fenny
MSc Sport Broadcast

Meet the Team
 

Before becoming an academic I worked in London for 15 years as a full-time journalist progressing from Editorial Assistant to Deputy Group Editor. While working for several years with different publishers and magazines I turned my focus to my passion – film, and to a career in trade journalism as Editor of Film and TV Production Review. My background in journalism and media informs and underpins the MA Specialist Journalism allowing students to combine areas of interest, knowledge and experience with specific programme outcomes, which is a real strength of the course.

Robert Taffurelli
MA Specialist Journalism Programme Director

My first job was covering the Sydney Olympics in 2000. I was there as a backpacker but had convinced the South Wales Evening Post to get me accreditation so I could be a sports journalist at the Games. Later that glorious summer down under I got a job as a runner for Eurosport at the Australian Open and whilst there I met some people from Sky TV and managed to get them to give me a job as a junior production assistant at Sky Sports back in London covering snooker, darts, football and then rugby, where I got to travel the world as an assistant producer on events like the Lions tour of New Zealand in 2005 and the Heineken Cup which took me all over Europe.

In 2007 I moved to BBC Sport and stayed for nearly a decade working on 2 Olympics, a Joe Calzaghe title fight in Las Vegas, 7 Wimbledons, 9 Six Nations, a few Commonwealth Games, The Ryder Cup and an FA Cup – all as a senior producer. After 5 years in charge of the BBC Wales show Scrum V Live, I came to Cardiff Met to set up the Sport Broadcast degree, the first of its kind. I still work as a freelance Executive Producer, mostly on documentaries and live events. I worked on the Champions League Final in Cardiff for UEFA, and I just produced a football documentary called “Together Stronger” for the BBC.

Joe Towns
MSc Sport Broadcast Programme Director

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