Meet the School of Journalism, Media and Communication.
We're changing our name to better reflect the breadth of teaching and research we do, as well as the ever-changing nature of our industry.
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In other
@mrdanwalker
news today, we're delighted to confirm that two Dan Walker Journalism Scholarships will again be available this year for home fee paying students on our MA Broadcast Journalism degree! 1/4
Are we strong on teaching media ethics and verification? Let's just say certain Telegraph columnists wouldn't have quoted a Twitter bot as a primary source if they'd studied journalism at Sheffield.
@danslee
My fave tutor at uni had a great journalism 101 lesson: โIf someone says itโs raining & another person says itโs dry, itโs not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the f**king window and find out which is true.โ
Want to study for a masters in journalism?
What would you say to ยฃ10,000 in funding?
How about personal mentoring from the BBC's
@mrdanwalker
?
We're delighted to announce
@sheffielduni
's 2018 Dan Walker Journalism Scholarships. Apply at
It's true...
...the new
@guardian
university league tables have been published...
...and Sheffield is STILL the UK's
#doublenumber1
university for studying journalism!
Researchers can't agree on what
#propaganda
means and have a blind spot for its use in liberal democracies, argues a new open access paper co-authored by our expert
@PiersRobinson1
, which proposes a new framework to advance PR and propaganda scholarship:
For the first time, our students have created an entire supplement which is published as an 8-page section of today's
@SheffieldStar
. Their work reveals an alarming rise in crime and launches a campaign for better lighting in parks to improve public safety.
Many people study journalism at Sheffield and go on to enjoy a rewarding media career.
@YP_LauraR
and
@reid1892
have gone one better. They fell in love while studying with us and got married this month! ๐
Please join us in wishing Laura and George a wonderful life together ๐
Tonight we celebrate
@journotutor
's incredible contribution to the
@sheffjournalism
community since joining us in September 2001.
Drinks at 5pm in newsroom 5 (aka
@reddeershef
) - do pop in if you'd like to join us in wishing Marie a happy retirement!
Hearty congratulations to our staff members
@SheffUniJourno
and Matt Robson, who have become Senior Fellows of the Higher Education Academy
@AdvanceHE
โ an indicator of their seriously excellent teaching. Good stuff!
We hope you found our video Q&A useful and we're grateful to the vast majority who engaged positively.
We wish we had all the answers for you straight away and we know how stressful this whole situation is for you.
We're doing everything we can and we'll carry on with that.
A huge well done to our tutor Matt Robson, who ran the
#SheffieldHalfMarathon
at the weekend to help
@sheffielduni
students who might not otherwise be able to attend university with the costs of fees and loans.
Want to donate? Go to - thanks!
#sheffhalf
Another thing to celebrate! Our joint head of department
@journotutor
has become a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, in recognition of her mighty contribution to teaching and learning as both an educator and a leader. Congratulations Marie!
Is nowhere better than Sheffield for studying journalism? Well, we do appear to have been given an overall rating of 100% by the
@compuniguide
for 2022. Just saying.
If you're studying MA Broadcast Journalism with us in 2021-22, you could be eligible for a scholarship worth ยฃ10,000 plus personal mentoring from the one and only
@mrdanwalker
! But you have to apply by 23 June. Check our website for details:
Big congratulations to our journalism tutor
@jameswhitworth
, who becomes Dr James Whitworth after a successful viva for his PhD on the history of the British political cartoon. ๐๐๐
Find out more about James from his (newly updated) staff profile:
It's not just our students who win awards. We are SO PROUD of our director of undergrad studies
@lisabjourno
who's been awarded a super prestigious Vice Chancellor's Teaching Award for Leadership in Learning and Teaching! Amazing news and fully deserved ๐๐๐
We just want to say a big thankyou to the
@Sheffunistaff
members who are still working on campus to keep essential services running which support students and research and keep everything safe. RT to share the love?
As a department we pride ourselves on our far-reaching research, our outstanding teaching, our high-achieving alumni, and the care that goes into our staff World Cup sweepstake.
Knowing media law is so vital to good journalism. The media law handbook that journalists have depended on for years is co-authored by our lecturer
@MarkHannaMedia
. It's featured today at the launch of the Sheffield Authors Showcase!
Our
@mrdanwalker
Journalism Scholarships for 2019 are now open for applications! If you're applying for our Broadcast Journalism MA, you could get a ยฃ10k funding award and personal mentoring from Dan himself. Find out more at
#postgraduate
#funding
We're moving to our new home in The Wave next week! ๐
Please note that the student support reception will be closed until Wednesday morning. Our staff will be working remotely until then, so if you have any questions please drop us an email: journalism
@sheffield
.ac.uk
Another number 1 to add to the collection!
@compuniguide
for 2020 rates
@sheffielduni
the UK's best for communication & media studies.
This follows our successive
#1
rankings in the
@guardian
league table (2018, 2019).
Sheffield really is the UK's number 1 for journalism!
How do we define news? Who is it for? Whose voices does it amplify and silence? And why does it matter?
Our researcher Dr Tony Harcup tackles all this and more in his new book from
@Palgrave_
. Allow him to explain...
#CMJshef
This time six months ago I was completely unemployed, now Iโm going to be on a
@bbcone
docu-series following me and my friends around my work and seeing the ins and outs of my amazing job ๐๐ป
โBreaking Fashionโ will be on iPlayer and BBC One from September 18th ๐
@inthestyleUK
Congratulations to our very own Jess Meacham on your award - most supportive non-academic staff member at the SU Academic Awards - we are very proud of you! ๐๐๐
We're absolutely delighted to announce the appointment of three brilliant people to our new University Teacher posts.
Followers, please welcome to the stage
@willoliphant
@Mrawlins1974
and
@jameswhitworth
! ๐๐๐
It's fair to say
@sheffjournalism
will never be quite the same without Professor Marie Kinsey. Enjoy your retirement
@journotutor
and congratulations on an amazing career. We'll miss you! ๐๐๐
Our incredible third year students appeared on
@BBCLookNorth
last night as part of a campaign for better safety measures on West Street in
#Sheffield
following a spate of drink spiking
Missed it? Find out more below๐
#claimbackweststreet
@ShefUniNews
What a programme of journalism masterclasses we've got lined up for our students this semester. Huge thanks to all of these wonderful speakers for agreeing to share their expert perspectives with our students!
#jusmasterclass
It's not just our graduates who achieve brilliant things - check this out on our director of teaching and learning
@lisabjourno
, whose first novel Paper Dolls is published this month!
I've watched
@BBCWalesToday
ever since I was kid growing up in the valleys. Yesterday evening I was given the opportunity to sit in the hot seat and present the evening news. Still can't quite believe it - such a great experience and so thankful ๐
We're thrilled to be joined by
@PippaCrerar
for today's
#jusmasterclass
. Instead of asking questions at Downing Street, she's going to be the one answering them as our students grill her for all her best career advice! As ever, it's
@Lindsay_Pantry
here with the best bits
Looking for an exciting, fast-paced career in a booming area of the media industry? Study MA Magazine Journalism at Sheffield โ the UK's number 1 university for journalism!
Very proud to say our graduate
@DSheridanYEP
will return to
@sheffjournalism
next week to tell our students how he broke the story of Jack Williment-Barr โ the 4-year-old who had to lie on the floor at Leeds General Infirmary โ and about the
#fakenews
backlash that followed.
Final year students are celebrating today after the culmination of a pioneering module that has been shortlisted for two national awards
Well done everyone!๐
Full story ๐
Study MA Magazine Journalism with us and you'll create your own title, designed for either print or online formats. Have a look at some of the award-winning magazines our previous students have made:
Staff interview! Here's our broadcast journalism tutor Matt Robson on:
๐นwhy he loves teaching
๐นhis old job with the BBC
๐นwhy he doesn't want to leave Sheffield
๐นwhy video editing is like a giant jigsaw with no picture on the box!
Watch at
Congratulations to our very own Dr Tony Harcup, who was last night awarded life membership of
@NUJofficial
. Here's the presentation with
@KatherineLeeds
and national executive member Adam Christie. Thanks to
@NUJ_Leeds
for the photo!
Celebration! ๐๐๐๐๐
@sheffjournalism
students/grads took an incredible SEVEN of the ten trophies handed out at last week's
@TheMagAcademy
awards!
Massive congratulations to these sublimely talented people - we're absolutely delighted for you all!
The BBC's local democracy reporting scheme should be extended to cover court reporting, says our lecturer
@MarkHannaMedia
(who is co-author of McNaeโs Essential Law for Journalists):
Our professor
@PiersRobinson1
was invited to speak at a 'Future Wars Seminar' at the French military academy
@SaintCyrCoet
this week, sharing his research on propaganda and the 'war on terror'.
#CMJshef
The 2023 NSS results are in: we've smashed it!
Journalism at the University of Sheffield ranked first in the Russell Group across several areas, including learning resources, student voice and learning opportunities.
See the full results:
Delighted to announce that our Dan Walker Journalism Scholarships for 2020 are now open for applications!
So if you're studying MA Broadcast Journalism with us, you could get ยฃ10,000 and personal mentoring from
@mrdanwalker
.
Find out more:
Incredible success from our third year students! ๐๐
Their determination with this campaign has led to support from South Yorkshire Police, local MPs, bars and organisations around the city, as well as securing ยฃ5,000 for anti-spiking measures
Find out more๐
@ShefUniNews
@lisabjourno
and
@PollyRippon
have been hard at work today - staging a potentially traumatic court case to help our trainee journalists build on their resilience training. Just one of many ways we're helping our students to practise self care in their future careers!
Our careers days are one of the reasons our graduates do so well in the jobs market. And we've got one today! Thanks so much to all our guests for giving up their time to help our students.
Let's take a moment to celebrate the work of our Placements Princess... the Countess of Careers... the Empress of Employability -- our very own
@MellarsPatricia
๐๐๐
Wonder how many media and comms careers have been helped along by her work over these 13 years?
Thanks for the reminder LinkedIn, Iโve been working for
@sheffjournalism
for 13 years today!! Wow, where did the time go... celebrated with two fab career sessions this afternoon ๐
No-one understands better than Joan Lawrence how journalists should and shouldn't interact with victims. We're so grateful to Joan for giving today's
#jusmasterclass
and sharing her insights with our students. We know they'll become better journalists as a result.
Why did the cameras keep rolling as
#ChristianEriksen
received treatment for a cardiac arrest? In this compelling
@ConversationUK
piece, our journalism teacher
@jameswhitworth
examines the incident, weighing up media ethics and the wishes of the audience.
This successful broadcaster was among our first ever graduates in MA Broadcast Journalism. Tomorrow
@mrdanwalker
is back in Sheffield to speak to our current students for this week's
#jusguest
lecture. Stephenson LT01, 12 noon. We can't wait!
Our students' futures are incredibly important to us. With our colleages at
@UniShefCareers
we go the extra mile to make them super-employable.
So next month we're running a Careers Day and we've lined up this fantastic panel of visitors to give them some expert advice.
Two Things To Do If You're Interested In a Journalism MA
-----
1. Book on our 8 February postgrad open day:
2. See if you're eligible for our Dan Walker Journalism Scholarships - ยฃ10,000 with personal mentoring from
@mrdanwalker
:
To top off a fantastic, award-winning afternoon we are thrilled to announce that our department has won the innovation in journalism education awardโจ
Lead by head of department
@lisabjourno
, judges praised our news project module for its 'far-reaching impact'
@NCTJ_news
๐๐
Great to have
@mrdanwalker
with us this afternoon to meet the two winners of this year's Dan Walker Journalism Scholarship:
@jackperry6
(MA Journalism) and Joe Cowell (MA Broadcast Journalism). Thanks Dan and congrats to Jack and Joe!
I'm happy to announce that I have signed for
@UofOklahoma
on loan for the 2021-22 season. ๐๐ผ
I'd like to thank my parent club
@sheffjournalism
for the opportunity. Oklahoma Wigan Athletic Supporters Club coming to a student bar near you
#wafc
๐ตโช๏ธ
Today's
#jusmasterclass
comes from two of our brilliant graduates,
@DSheridanYEP
and
@AlexGroveNews
, who'll be sharing their insights with our current students on what you need to know to break in to a media career. Big thanks to Daniel and Alex for joining us!
.
@DSheridanYEP
completed his degree with us in 2016.
A few days ago he broke the story of the child who received treatment on a hospital floor.
A shady online misinformation campaign attempted to discredit the story.
Today he's back at
@sheffielduni
to give our guest lecture.
We shall overcome!
Thanks Joel and thanks everyone for your wonderful messages of support.
Let's keep looking out for each other and we'll get through this. All of you take care.
My special mention this morning goes to
@sheffjournalism
. In these very trying circumstances, they've stopped at nothing to provide us w/ all the info we need.
Even in the face of some unmerited scrutiny, frustration and sheer insolence, their approach has been very dignified.๐ฏ
In choosing Sheffield
to study journalism,
students here have
chosen the best.
Our excellent teaching
makes them experts
in practical skills like
newswriting and
global issues such as
history of media and ethics
of journalistic practice.
Make sure you choose
equally well.
Really thought-provoking piece from our graduate
@cherryewilson
- take a minute to read if you've not already seen it.
BBC News - Cherry Wilson: Should I remove or reply to my racist Facebook friend?
You've got a month left to apply for a Dan Walker Journalism Scholarship!
โข ยฃ10,000 award
โข exclusively for
@sheffjournalism
MA Broadcast Journalism students
โข the two successful applicants also receive personal mentoring from
@mrdanwalker
More info:
Did you know... as well as being rated number 1 in the UK by the
@compuniguide
for 2020, we're also the only journalism department in the top 5 of all three league tables?
Just saying.
We're overjoyed to see two brilliant
@sheffjournalism
students shortlisted in the
@NCTJ_news
Awards for Excellence!
@PaulaMelissaXX
for best multimedia story/campaign
@JournoJess_
for student of the year
Congrats to both, good luck in the final awards!
She only graduated from
@sheffjournalism
last year but
@emdowningsmith
is already making a name for herself as a researcher on
@BBC
consumer show Rip-Off Britain.
Find out how Emily's journalism degree at Sheffield prepared her for her media career:
Hello and happy new year! We're back. Hope you all had an excellent break for the festive period, or as good as can be hoped for in the circumstances. Let's do this 2021 thing.
For today's
#jusmasterclass
we're delighted to be hearing from the brilliant
@CharlieBCuff
- journo, editor, author, commentator and head of editorial at
@galdemzine
. Charlie will highlight the importance of diversity in the media profession. See you online at 12!
.
Always great to see
@sheffjournalism
graduate
@mrdanwalker
rejoin us for a chat, and we're sure our students will be looking forward to today's
#jusmasterclass
as much as we are. See you very soon!