Live television news; radio beamed across the internet; hard headlines and glossy magazines; multimedia websites and innovative blogs - from the minute you arrive at Westminster you'll be creating real life journalism, working to industry standards and round the clock deadlines in our state-of-the-art newsrooms and studios.
Westminster offers a full range of undergraduate and postgraduate journalism courses, which cover print, broadcast and online media and propel you into a fast-moving and demanding experience involving real stories, real interviews, real mistakes and real triumphs.
Combining top-level practice with cutting edge analysis, our courses equip you with the multimedia skills and the creative thinking you need to gain jobs in today's fast-changing media businesses.
The industry
The industry recognises the quality of our teaching. Our teaching excellence has received three awards from the Broadcast Journalism Training Council and our students regularly win awards for their radio documentaries.
Our graduates are reporters and executives on broadsheets and local newspapers, magazines and news media websites. They work for the BBC and Sky News in both TV and radio and for independent radio stations.
Our practice tutors have extensive industry experience, having worked as journalists, producers and editors for some of the biggest names in the business - The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian, BBC, Sky News, Channel 4 News and ITV. Our London location means we are able to regularly bring in distinguished speakers and lecturers from national newspapers, magazines, broadcasters and websites.
The Department of Journalism and Mass Communications
Westminster has long been respected as one of the top-rated media research institutes in the country. When you study here, you learn how to analyse journalism's social, economic and cultural effects from some of the most respected media academics in the world.
Our resources are second to none
The Department of Journalism and Mass Communications has a newly upgraded multimedia newsroom, equipped with the latest interactive technologies, professional standard TV and radio studios and edit suites with the latest production software.
You also benefit from a lively atmosphere at Westminster. Journalism is just one part of the School of Media, Arts and Design (MAD). Studying here, you're surrounded by musicians, artists, filmmakers, designers and photographers.
It's exactly the kind of creative environment and culture you'll find when you go on to work in the media. Journalism students are encouraged to work with graphic designers and illustrators, photographers and music students, to find new formats, new ways to look at the world and new approaches to storytelling.
Journalism is changing. New technologies and new business ideas mean that everything is up for grabs. With their multimedia training and creative approach, the Journalism degrees at Westminster will help you to play a full part in that change, to find work, to develop new forms of journalism and perhaps even to change the way we all look at the world.