Football Journalism with Foundation Year

About this course

Football journalism sits at the intersection of sports journalism and the largest professional sport in the world. It demands not only the core skills of the journalist, including clear writing, interviewing, research, and the ability to work quickly and accurately under deadline pressure, but also a deep knowledge of football: its history, its structures from grassroots to elite, its economics, its politics, and the culture of the communities that follow it. Football generates more media content, attracts more readers and viewers, and employs more journalists than any other sport in the UK, making it a significant specialist field in its own right. At Derby this four-year full-time programme includes a foundation year, providing a structured first year that develops your academic and journalistic foundations before you progress to the main degree. The programme benefits from strong rel

Where its graduates go

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