Journalism

Start your career by learning with a course team of who combine research and teaching with extensive journalism experience. Whether you're interested in magazine journalism, sports, news or arts, our professionally accredited courses give you the foundation you need to thrive in this competitive field.

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Clare Balding

You'll benefit from our well-established guest lecture programme, with previous speakers including Clare Balding, Nick Davies and former England cricket captain Mike Atherton.

Professional work placement Darcey Haynes

You'll undertake a professional work placement as part of your course, where you can put your skills into practice. Previous students have worked at organisations including Arsenal Football Club, Hayters Sport Agency and the Eastbourne Herald.

By teaching you practical skills relevant to wider industry, our degrees open up career opportunities in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, as well as in public relations, copywriting and media management. 

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You'll develop your skills with our industry-standard facilities, which include a 40-station newsroom, multimedia suite and live satellite news and sports feeds.

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Our journalism courses are professionally accredited by the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ).

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School of Sport and Service Management

Journalism and sport journalism are taught at the School of Sport and Service Management.

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Jed Novick

Jed Novick – Senior lecturer

Jed has vast newspaper and magazine experience that encompasses the likes of the Times, the Guardian, the Independent, the Observer and the Daily Express.
A contributor to Sport and Society, Jed has written a number of football books in addition to acclaimed studies of Tommy Cooper, Benny Hill, Michael Palin, and Morecambe and Wise. He has set up four national magazines and a publishing company.

Jed’s most recent work is The Cambridge Companion to Football, which he co-edited and wrote with Rob Steen. They are both now working on The Rutledge Handbook of Sports Journalism as Jed studies for a masters in creative writing.

Jed Novick

Rob Steen

Rob Steen – Senior lecturer

Rob is an award-winning sports journalist and one of the world’s leading cricket writers. For 30 years he has worked extensively for the Guardian, the Independent, the Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Financial Times among others.

Winner of the 2005 EU Journalism Award (UK section) ‘for diversity, against discrimination’, a long-time columnist for Cricinfo and blogger at rocksbackpages.com, he has also written more than a dozen sports books including David Gower – A Man Out of Time (winner of the 1995 Cricket Society Literary award), Spring Summer Autumn (1991 William Hill Sports Book of the Year runner-up) and an acclaimed textbook, Sports Journalism – A Multimedia Primer (second edition published in December 2014).

Rob has peer-reviewed articles for journals such as African and Asian Studies, Nations and Nationalism, Convergence, and the International Review for the Sociology of Sport. He is currently working on a PhD.

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Undergraduate courses

Journalism and Sport Journalism are taught in Eastbourne. 

Journalism BA(Hons)
Sport Journalism BA(Hons)

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