Southampton Solent University offers several BA degrees in journalism, including sports, multimedia, fashion, popular music, and magazine journalism. The program emphasizes practical skills and real-world experience through a dedicated newsroom, studios, and opportunities to work with national media clients. Students gain experience in publishing, video production, photography, and social media to become adaptable graduates ready for the evolving industry or further study.

1. SOU TH AMPTON SOL E N T U N I V E R SI TY
J O U R N A L I S M A N D E N G L I S H

2. JOURNALISM DEGREES
BA JOURNALISM
BA SPORT JOURNALISM
BA MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM
BA FASHION JOURNALISM
BA POPULAR MUSIC JOURNALISM
BA MAGAZINE JOURNALISM
BA PHOTOJOURNALISM
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3. P R E S E N T A T I O N T I T L E – G O T O I N S E R T > H E A D E R & F O O T E R T O E D I T T H I S T E X T 3
Creative focused graduates with transferable skills for employment and
postgraduate study
Real-world, challenging work experience
Flexible, multi-option courses
Dedicated iMac newsroom with Avid iNews newsroom management
software, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Creative Cloud suite and live
streaming.
Newsroom Mini studio with dedicated stations for multiple cameras,
autocue, sound, VT playback, vision mixing and tapeless recording.
4K tapeless playout and capture via a BlackMagic HyperDeck Studio Pro
and UltraStudio 4K.
Live green-screen capability within the newsroom and the TV Studios
On location live link-up allowing students to report live back to the
studio.
Direct link from the newsroom mini studio to the other main campus
studios.
E x c e l l e n t p r a c t i c e w i t h e m b e d d e d
c o n t e x t u a l u n d e r s t a n d i n g
SOLENT JOURNALISM

4. REALITIES
P r a c t i c a l a n d T h e o r e t i c a l b a l a n c e d
c o u r s e s f o r t h i n k i n g j o u r n a l i s t s
P r o m o t i n g s t u d y a b r o a d a s a n
o p p o r t u n i t y t o f l o u r i s h
D e m a n d i n g e x c e l l e n t d i g i t a l s k i l l s
t o m e e t d e m a n d o f i n d u s t r y
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OPPORTUNITIES
W e e k l y n e w s d a y s l i n k e d t o
p u b l i c a t i o n s a n d w e b s i t e s
W o r k e x p e r i e n c e e s s e n t i a l f o r a l l
d e g r e e s
P r o f e s s i o n a l p o r t f o l i o s a n d s h o w
r e e l s e s s e n t i a l f o r g r a d u a t e
e m p l o y m e n t

5. SOLENT PRESS
R e a l e d i t o r i a l w o r k f o r n a t i o n a l
m e d i a c l i e n t s
E m p l o y a b i l i t y s k i l l s : c l i e n t
m a n a g e m e n t , t e a m w o r k i n g ,
p r o j e c t m a n a g e m e n t
S t u d e n t s d e v e l o p a p r o f e s s i o n a l
n e t w o r k a n d i m p r e s s i v e p o r t f o l i o s
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SOLENT CREATIVES
F r e e l a n c e o p p o r t u n i t i e s t o s t u d e n t s .
O f f e r i n g s e r v i c e s i n c l u d i n g f i l m ,
g r a p h i c d e s i g n , p h o t o g r a p h y, e v e n t
m a n a g e m e n t , C G I , m a r k e t i n g , P R ,
s o c i a l m e d i a a n d j o u r n a l i s m .
E m b e d d e d i n t h e c u r r i c u l u m , a s w e l l
a s o f f e r i n g s t u d e n t s t h e c h a n c e t o
u n d e r t a k e f r e e l a n c e j o b s a s a n e x t r a
t o t h e i r s t u d i e s .

6. OUR FACILITIES

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18. O U R V I S I O N
S t u d e n t s a r e h i g h l y f o c u s e d a n d a d a p t a b l e f o r a n
e v o l v i n g i n d u s t r y. T h e y h a v e g a i n e d e x p e r i e n c e
a l o n g s i d e k n o w l e d g e a n d u n d e r s t a n d i n g o f j o u r n a l i s m
a n d a r e r e a d y t o t a k e o n t h e c h a l l e n g e s a n d r e a l i t i e s
o f t h e i n d u s t r y. T h e y a r e a l s o b e s t p l a c e d t o f u r t h e r
t h e i r s t u d i e s i n t h e p o s t g r a d u a t e a r e n a .
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