Multimedia Sports Journalism BA (Hons)

Working alongside the many sports clubs, bodies and media companies based in Northamptonshire, your first year on this Sports Journalism degree will see you learning and starting to apply key audio and video production skills. You will also learn how to write sports stories and understand laws and ethics which apply to sports reporting. The second year of the course will see you apply those production and writing skills in live newsdays; attending press conferences and live events and reporting on our own FM radio station, NLive. You will learn how to report in the growing world of esports and develop skills in sports magazine production and sports commentary. In the final year of the Sports Journalism course, you will apply your skills to professional standards in multi-platform newsdays, as well as develop your employment skills ready for that future career. You will learn about future trends in journalism tech and storytelling. Your final year project will be either a documentary or a magazine and your dissertation will analyse and question a key issue in sports media production, sports journalism or sports ethics. Throughout this program, you will get on the chance to learn on the job. This will involve the covering of multiple sports press conferences and attending and working at live football, rugby and other sporting events within Northamptonshire. All of this will provide you a portfolio of work to showcase to future employers and give you the chance to build industry

Minimum standard – IELTS 7.5 or equivalent

International students: £17,000 per year

UK students: £9,790 per year

UK/Home: £9,790 per year

International: £17,000 per year

September 2026

Apply via UCAS. The equal consideration deadline is

• Waterside Campus, Northampton, United Kingdom