This course offers flexible personal and professional development seminars and courses which aim to equip experienced professionals worldwide for leadership roles in an increasingly complex, multi-media landscape. Created after extensive consultation with industry and in cooperation with the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), this innovative course aims to foster editorial team leaders who seek to enable creativity, value diversity and share responsibility with their organisations. The blended learning approach mixes intensive residential weeks with extensive online discussion and coaching to provide a series of modules that can be taken individually or can build into a postgraduate certificate, diploma or master’s qualification. Our solutions-based learning approach means that instead of traditional exams you will be offered a range of assessments that allow you to apply critical insights and theoretical knowledge to professional practice. Applied projects enable you to demonstrate immediate value to your organisation.

Key Facts

Entry Requirements

Participants should have substantial work experience (normally at least five years), as described in a detailed curriculum vitae. They should possess a good honours degree (normally 2:1 or above), or equivalent professional qualification. Mature applicants will be considered with extensive experience. A statement of 250-500-words is required, describing the relevance of the programme to your work, your goals for the course and how you will apply the learning in your context. Evidence of appropriate computer literacy and internet access is also needed.

Course Content

Taking the step to join the Journalism Leaders Programme will give you the chance to choose from a range of modules aimed at helping you develop the knowledge and skills to contribute to organisational strategy, lead creative multimedia projects and teams, manage people and operations, and conduct applied research.

Once accepted to the programme, you set the pace and level of participation.

You can elect to attend a specific five-day seminar only, or earn academic credit for the module by joining in an additional series of 9 weekly online discussions and completing a set of projects linked to your workplace.

You can earn a single module certificate or work towards one of the following university awards: postgraduate certificate (3 modules), postgraduate diploma (6 modules) or Master of Arts in Journalism Leadership (6 modules, plus a dissertation or project).

>> See Link: Journalism Leaders Programme flyer (.pdf 125kb) and the programme website at: http://www.ukjournalism.co.uk/jleaders .

Part 1: Leading teams that do innovative work
JN3400 Principles of Journalism Leadership* (20 credits)
JN4050 Creating Effective Content (20)
JN4051 Leading Editorial Teams (20)

Part 2: Managing the editorial business
JN4054 Journalism and the  Market (20)
JN4055 Managing Media Projects (20)

Part 3: Effective research at work
JN4057  Research Process & Methods (20)
Masters Project or Masters Dissertation (60)

Course at a Glance

“The course is, in its entirety, a complete recipe for editorship. It is comprehensive, imaginative and, with its e-learning support, completely accessible.” – Keith Sutton, past president of the Society of Editors (UK).

Year 1

Tailored learning
The Journalism Leaders Programme recognises that professionals need lots of flexibility if they are to balance the competing demands of work, home and studies. That’s why we offer an innovative  mixed-method approach to learning which enables practitioners from across the globe to join in while continuing with their careers.  Our week-long on-campus residential seminars are scheduled in the Autumn, Winter and Spring. If you  choose to engage in nine additional Webinars hosted on our multichannel e-learning environment and complete a set of applied projects, you can earn academic credit for each module. That gives you the option of working towards a postgraduate certificate (three modules), a postgraduate diploma (six modules) or the Master of Arts in Journalism Leadership (six taught modules + research thesis or project). 

Links with Professional Bodies:

Chartered Management Institute
World Editors Forum
Digital Editors Network

Assessment:

Solution-based learning approach offers a range of assessments that allow you to demonstrate ability to apply critical insights & theoretical knowledge to professional practice. Residential week includes: individual & group assignments, followed by take-home applied projects that give you a chance to provide immediate value to your organisation.

Learning Environment:

Taught modules for academic credit are offered over 10 weeks, which include a combination of background reading, intensive face-to-face residential sessions in Preston, extensive online contact using our multi-channel e-learning environment and applied assignments.

Careers:

The Journalism Leaders Programme’s suit of flexible personal and professional development courses aims to equip experienced practitioners for leadership roles in an increasingly complex and unpredictable media landscape.   

" This is purely a programme that is tailored for your development and allows you to progress within the company and benefit the company you’re with… It’s been brilliant, it’s been a blast. I’d say the course is absolutely bang on. You can’t afford to miss it really." - Alison Gow, joined the programme as a Deputy Editor of the Liverpool Daily Post and is now Editor of WalesOnline.co.uk and Wales on Sunday.

Other Opportunities:

We also tailor our courses to corporate groups and create custom training solutions to support organisations as they devise and implement the
strategies required to thrive in the Digital Age.

Fees and Finance

The standard fee for this course will be: £6,000 per year

For further information including the availability of bursaries/scholarships or student financial support please view our Fees and Finance pages.