As with any degree, most people ideally want to find relevant work after graduation so that they can put their newly acquired skills to use. Journalism offers plenty of career paths, due to how versatile the skills you gain are.
To help you find a career, we’ve put together six jobs that you can get with a journalism degree. But if a degree doesn’t seem feasible, you should know that journalism courses can be just as effective. You can find plenty online, such as schoolofjournalism.co.uk/.
Broadcast journalist
We’ll start our list with three journalistic roles. Broadcast journalism, like most journalism roles, is fast-paced and investigative, requiring you to gather new stories quickly, whilst being able to clearly and coherently communicate them to the public. This can be through a TV network, a radio station, and even online platforms.
Web content manager
You’re not likely to start in the managerial role, but the skills are largely related: you’ll need to structure website content, regularly update, and cover an array of auxiliary forms of content – social media, blog posts, images, and videos. As a manager, you’ll produce and edit yourself, whilst coordinating your team with tasks each day.
Magazine journalist
Covering a different type of news, magazine journalists share in the skills of newspaper journalists, but in specialist areas. These typically include consumer titles, general interest, pop culture, and business-to-business work. All the research and writing skills remain the same, so you’ll find that you can transition to other roles quite easily.
Advertising copywriter
These next three roles aren’t directly tied to journalism, but overlap in terms of skills. Advertising copywriters specialise in creativity and balancing multiple workloads. Strong teamwork and a firm commitment to your clients will set you apart.
Digital copywriter
Much like the previous example, you’ll be creating original content for web pages, now with the freedom to choose an employed role, or a freelance approach.
Translator
Of course, this requires fluency in other languages, but you’ll find your copywriting, localisation, and persuasive skills come in very handy for this role.
