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Graduate Diploma in Journalism
Are you ready to work as a journalist? The Graduate Diploma in Journalism is designed to give you strong journalistic skills and what the job requires today. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the journalism course’s online publication, City Journal. You will also be involved in presenting and…
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Are you ready to work as a journalist?
The Graduate Diploma in Journalism is designed to give you strong journalistic skills and what the job requires today. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the journalism course’s online publication, City Journal. You will also be involved in presenting and producing live radio news and our live-to-air television news bulletin, Newsline.
Strong links with industry are maintained through the course’s extensive work placement scheme, which offers you the chance to spend time in a newsroom. There are also limited opportunities to complete overseas work placements.
You will also learn to put modern practice into its legal, ethical and social context.
You will complete this diploma with the skills and knowledge necessary for an entry level position in journalism. As a student of this diploma, you will follow in the footsteps of some of Australia’s greatest journalists, and rub shoulders with amazing working mentors throughout your studies.
Career
This diploma boasts a high graduate employability rate, with many of our students securing roles before graduation. You’ll be able to work across all platforms of journalism, including newspapers, magazines, online, radio and television journalism, specialist publishing and corporate communications in Australia and overseas.
Digital technology advancements and the growing social media space are increasing the need for graduates who can adapt to, and cope with, a fast-paced environment and who have an understanding of how journalism will look in the future.
Graduates work in roles such as:
journalist
corporate communicator
media advisor.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Since its establishment in 1887, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) has been meeting the needs of the community surrounding it. Originally a Working Men’s College, RMIT showed its flexibility during World War Two, training over 20,000 servicemen in communications to help with the war effort.Now, it is a true pioneer in international education, championing cross-border study opportunities with campuses in various countries. Granted formal university status in 1992, RMIT is ranked 21st in the world for universities that are less than 50 years old.RMIT is the largest higher education institution in Australia, currently with more than 82,000 students. With nearly 20% of those students coming from overseas, it is a university that truly welcomes diversity and is a melting pot of different cultures. RMIT has three campuses in Vietnam, a European hub in Barcelona, an office in Indonesia, and partners with 200+ institutions in 42 countries to provide study opportunities worldwide.
Since its establishment in 1887, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) has been meeting the needs of the community surrounding it. Originally a Working Men’s College, RMIT showed its flexibility during World War Two, training over 20,000 servicemen in communications to help with the war effort.
Now, it is a true pioneer in international education, championing cross-border study opportunities with campuses in various countries. Granted formal university status in 1992, RMIT is ranked 21st in the world for universities that are less than 50 years old.
RMIT is the largest higher education institution in Australia, currently with more than 82,000 students. With nearly 20% of those students coming from overseas, it is a university that truly welcomes diversity and is a melting pot of different cultures. RMIT has three campuses in Vietnam, a European hub in Barcelona, an office in Indonesia, and partners with 200+ institutions in 42 countries to provide study opportunities worldwide.