BA Journalism with Business Management at University of Essex

Help the general public understand the complex world of finance and commerce. Explain how the economy is fluctuating. Expose the scandalous stories hiding within big businesses.

This course offers the unique opportunity to expand your knowledge of business management practices whilst growing your journalistic prowess, developing an array of transferable skills across both disciplines. In the digital age, where demand for news is at an all-time high, we help you to develop your own journalistic style and ability to find and share a story that is engaging and powerful.

You explore a wide spectrum of business and management topics ranging from strategy and organisational behaviour, to marketing. This is intertwined with the practical journalism component of this course, where you develop your skills in using multi-media channels such as radio, television and online media, and deepen your knowledge of journalism on an international scale.

This course gives you flexibility to choose the areas of the subject that most interest you.

Topics may include:

• journalism in practice
• management practices
• production techniques
• business strategy
• international journalism
• human resource management

During your final year, you have the opportunity to bring all aspects of the course together in a final multimedia project on a subject linked to the business element of your studies.

As a student at one of the UK’s leading social science institutions, you are uniquely placed to acquire a deep understanding of the world you report on. You will join our Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies and Essex Business School, which is ranked the UK’s top 25 for research excellence (REF 2014). We champion responsible management, business ethics and sustainability in our teaching and are committed to making organisations better places to do business.

Why we're great.

• Our journalism teaching staff have a broad range of up-to-date hands-on industry experience.
• You create and broadcast your own online content, radio and TV programmes.
• You can build your knowledge of multimedia journalism whilst also specialising in your favourite subject.