MA in TV and Radio Journalism

This module enables learners to understand how audiences relate to media content and develop an ability to critically discuss the major paradigms and theories that have shaped the field of communications, including their historical development and current trends. It offers learners an academic introduction to examples of research and theories potentially relevant to their dissertation. Learners also develop the ability to evaluate the spectrum of research and theorization on how media audiences are measured and how audiences behave.

This module aims to equip learners with an understanding of the fundamental principles of media law in order for them to be able to work confidently and competently within the legal boundaries as a media professional. The module develops in learners a practical working knowledge of legal principles so they can work competently as media professionals and avoid the pitfalls of contriving financial vulnerabilities, contempt of court, or professional disciplinary action.

This module aims to develop learners’ overall creative and technical production abilities by equipping them with the practical skills to approach the production of factual visual programming on mobile devices for multiplatform distribution. Learners critically evaluate professional video standards and conceive, shoot, edit and upload online their own short video programming using mobile phones. They also learn to transfer footage from mobile to desktop computer to develop more advanced editing skills. The module develops learners’ concept development skills and digital video production skills for mobile journalism.

This module aims to enable learners to conceive, research, produce and present a radio documentary to industry standards. Learners develop the ability to critically analyse documentary genres and types, particularly in terms of narrative, storytelling, sound effects and structure, and to reflect on these critical evaluations in order to create one’s own work. The module advances learners’ knowledge of the collaborative nature of programme-making and how to review and revise the structure of a documentary based on constructive feedback.

This module aims to equip learners to work as radio journalists in news and current affairs. Working in a simulated newsroom environment in the on-campus radio studio, learners acquire the skills to create short news bulletins and longer news and current affairs programmes covering stories of national and international importance including the courts, the Dáil and stories of the day to on-air broadcast standard.​

This module aims to enable learners to make great radio in a professional environment. Through edited and recorded as-live individual and group assignments, the module equips learners with the skills, techniques, research ability and editorial standards which are necessary to work in news, current affairs, sports or light entertainment radio. 

This module aims to deepen learners’ research skills, in relation to their module related assignments and later in the completion of their major dissertation or dissertation by practice. It extends their abilities as self-directed learners by equipping them with the appropriate vocabulary for reflecting on, critiquing and evaluating their own work and that of others. Throughout the module, learners are required to engage in a number of research methodologies and current research issues and trends. The module also advances project management skills and techniques so that learners can successfully deliver a research project including scoping media research projects and complete a literature review. 

This module aims to impart knowledge and practical awareness of how and why media institutions, practices and culture developed in the way that they have in western society. It develops learners’ ability to focus on the media industries in a critical and evaluative manner in a broad social and historical context. Learners are required to critique media institutions and their interrelationship with society, politics and the economy and to apply theories of mass media. While enhancing research skills, the module also challenges learners’ understanding of the current media environment and requires critical evaluation of power relations as between owners, producers and receivers of information through forms of mass media. 

This module aims to equip learners with the necessary skills to perform the roles and responsibilities of people working in a television studio and to effectively use industry-standard equipment and techniques employed in a television studio. It enables learners to develop the skills required to work collaboratively and effectively in a pressured newsroom environment where they learn to produce a TV studio news and current affairs programme which includes a piece to camera, an interview, a one VT insert, an opening title and end credits.

This module aims to equip learners with the practical skills required to produce factual programming for multiplatform distribution. Learners develop the ability to conceive, develop, research, plan, produce, shoot and edit a short video documentary. Learners also produce a series of vlogs and develop a critical awareness and analytical judgment of all aspects of video production.​

This module aims to enable learners to attain the practical skills required to identify, plan, research, write and edit publishable news reports, feature articles and commercial content for identified audiences. Through practice, learners develop the ability to use social media platforms to promote their writing and to develop their online profile on their own WordPress website. The module also cultivates critical thinking among learners in relation to the role and future of journalism in democratic societies.​

This module enables learners to identify and fully exploit available and emerging research resources in the conduct of their dissertation investigation to support and direct their research methodology or techniques. The module aims for learners to be able to rigorously apply appropriate research, design and implementation methodologies to the development of media content, practices, processes and/or techniques. The module also affords learners the opportunity to complete significant research into specialist topics and present findings, insights and hypotheses reflecting mastery of the concepts and techniques involved.

This module aims to make learners familiar with the technical specifications of finishing and broadcasting video projects that they have created. The module familiarises learners with the industry standards set in broadcast production and visual effects while enabling them to experiment and develop their own creative projects using CGI, chroma-keying and motion-based graphics. Learners develop the ability to shoot while emphasising key techniques and considerations for acquiring content within which to incorporate virtual sets and visual effects.

This module enables learners to be able to play a lead role in production teams which repurpose existing content for new and different online audiences and to learn the key technical skills which allow them to plan, construct and develop their own and others’ online media artefacts. Learners develop the ability to use the current tools necessary for online journalism and the ability to apply these tools when creating journalistic content online. The module also develops learners’ ability to identify and evaluate trends and opportunities in online media and also cultivates a critical comprehension in the design and construction of integrated web-based media content.

General Fee Information 

An Academic Administration Fee of EUR250.00 and a 2% Learner Protection Charge is applicable each academic year in addition to the fees quoted below.

Study Mode: Full-Time

EUR 9,000.

General Fee Information 

An Academic Administration Fee of EUR250.00 and a 2% Learner Protection Charge is applicable each academic year in addition to the fees quoted below.

Non-EU students: a Student Services and Administration fee of EUR200 is payable each academic year in addition to the fees quoted below.

Study Mode: Full-Time

Dublin 

Non-EU living in Ireland or abroad: Please refer to our Non-EU Tuition Fees section.