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Journalism is essential to the successful functioning and flourishing of a democratic society.
This fully online UniSA Bachelor of Journalism will give you the knowledge and skills to credibly and convincingly tell important stories in the public interest across a range of formats and mediums. Students may specialise in an area of reporting that interests them, and will gain depth and breadth through the program’s social justice and constructive journalism focus.
You will graduate with a portfolio of published and/or broadcast work, through the UniSA student journalism publication On the Record and UniCast, UniSA’s web-based radio station. You may also republish and podcast though The Junction.
The courses in this degree are taught by experienced academics with strong industry connections and up-to-date knowledge of both foundational and changing journalism practices and means of publishing, broadcasting and distribution.
Together, they prepare you to work in large, medium-sized and small news organisations, as a community or specialist journalist, in city, regional and remote locations, and as a fully independent freelance or entrepreneurial journalist working alone or collaboratively with others – such as investigative journalists working with the Global Investigative Journalism Network on the Panama Papers.
At different times and in different places, you may work in any or all of these roles. And, because journalism knowledge and skills are essential and/or useful across a range of professions, you can take them anywhere, to wherever you choose to work.
Dr Bonita Mason, UO Interim Journalism Program Director
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