"The best student journalism I have ever seen" - Kay Oliver, GMTV [HEAR MORE]

Graduates of our journalism courses have an impressive employment rate - the vast majority of graduates from the journalism courses found work within six months on both our BA journalism and our MA journalism courses. A high proportion of our MA graduates in 2011 went straight into national and international media, with jobs including on screen roles at ITN and Al Jazeera.

"Editors and employers will be chasing these graduates" - Ian Murray, NewsQuest / Southampton Echo newspaper [HEAR MORE]

"If you have been to a place like Winchester you are going to stand out in the eyes of employers" - Geoff Hill, editor Channel Five news [HEAR MORE].

This is a time of huge change in journalism and therefor for journalism courses. Winchester has achieved national and international recognition for being "ahead of the industry itself" in terms of embracing the futire. These were the arguably the first journalism courses to fully combine newspaper, magazine, television, radio, internet and social media journalism in the same course (at BA journalism and at MA journalism level).

As a result journalism courses at Winchester have won the national BJTC excellence award (course of the year) for innovation every year since it was set up, and that means it has won this national award for the past two years running. The national excellence award for innovation has been won by the course leader at Winchester for an unprecedented four out of the past five years.

"This is the future for us as an industry. It seems that course is ahead of what the industry is doing." - Mia Costello, BBC College of Journalism.

OUTSTANDING TEACHING TEAM

The journalism courses at Winchester are produced by an outstanding teaching team which, in whole or in part, has been recognised by the broadcasting industry as the most up to date and innovative in the country in four of the past five years, include the past two years consecutively. It is led by Professor Chris Horrie (Observer, Sunday Times, BBC News Online and Channel Four).

Professor Horrie is recognised throughout the industry for his books and articles on journalism, and for inventing the BBC's own internal journalism tutor system, used by the BBC to train and its journalists in-service.

Professor Horrie has a particular interest in features, documentaries, multimedia production, factual entertainment and long form journalism alongside news. His former students and collaborators range from Danny Cohen (Controller BBC1) and Putel Verma (Producer Come Dine with Me) to Jonathan Overend (BBC Tennis Correspondent) and James Boxell (Financial Times Paris Correspondent). Chris Horrie teaches across all our journalism courses.

Other staff lecturers on the journalism courses include:

Angus Scott (Sports Anchor Al Jazeera, previously football anchor Setanta Sport and news and sports reporter, commentator for ITV. Angus Scott heads up the teaching of news production and presentationon our journalism courses and works with small groups of students on a one-to-one basis, coaching students who choose to specialise in news presentation, sports presentation and television presentation generally. Angus Scott teaches across all our journalism courses.

Jacqui Thornton (Former features editor, The Sun, health and features journalist for magazines and newspapers including Cosmopolitan magazine). Jacqui Thornton teaches the magazine course on the MA journalism course and the third year of the BA journalism courses.

Annette Rizzo (Independent radio producer and voice coach and author, currently research association investigating and researching local and community television and radio). Annette Rizzo teaches across al the journalism courses at the University of Winchester.

Ian Anderson (recently output editor BBC 10 O'Clock News, BBC Breakfast News and now BBC World Service trust). Ian Anderson teaches on all the journalism courses at the University of Winchester, leading the teaching of law and regulation on the MA journalism course and the third year of the BA journalism course.

Brian Thornton (BBC South, BBC Newsnight. Previously participated in the Silicon Valley innovation journalism conference at Stanford University, Palo Alto, participating with representatives and inventors of the Apple I-pad, the ingternational content editor of Facebook and the editor of Google News). Brian Thornton teaches across all he journalism coursesd at the university and also leads the Innocence Project, a major practical and research initiative which is shared by the journalism courses and other others at the university.

Visiting lecturers and guest editors involved with the journalism courses (many of them return regularly to work with groups of students all day) include:

Rob Kirk (head of development and former home news editor, Sky News)

Maria Milano (online editor of InStyle magazine)

Laura Barton (chief feature writer and documentary maker, The Guardian)

Ian Murray (Editor, The Daily Echo)

Chris Ship (Political Editor, and main bulletin presenter ITV News)

Geoff Hill (Editor, Channel Five News)

Mike Smartt (Founder and first Editor in Chief, BBC News Online)

"I am blown away by the professionalism of these journalism courses." - Laura Barton, The Guardian.

STATE OF THE ART STUDIOS AND FACILITIES

Our state-of-the-art facilities available to all students on our journalism courses include a television studio, a loan counter system with free on-demand access to a wide variety of sound recording equipmentment, still and video camaeras and more. We also have four radio studios/booths, a dedicated sound recording studio, a dedicated multimedia newsroom with inject points and a post-production editing suite.

Last year radio work produced on teh Winchester journalism courses was output live to the community under license and all the news bulletins and video production on the journalism courses are webcast over the internet to large audiences. Winchester journalism courses are highly selective, so numbers of students are small and so the access to studio and equipment is exceptionally good.

"There are facilities in the newsroom at Winchester that I have not seen in professional studios." - Chris Ship, ITV News.

LOCATION: "BEST OF BOTH WORLDS" FOR JOURNALISM COURSES

London is the media capital of Europe and so it makes sense to study on journalism courses at a place which is within easy striking distince of the major employers are work experience opportunities.

The location of our journalism courses gives students fast and easy access to both central London and to the largest concentration of magazine publishing a few miles away in the southern hinterland means that students on the Winchester Journalism coures are on the doorstep of the world's major news and media organisations.

A further advantage is that while demand for journalism placements in London vasstly outstrips supply, our location allows students to access work attachments along the south coast in major towns and citiies such as Southampton, Bournemouth and Portsmouth, where there is less competition.

Our students also do work attachments at newspapers, magazines, radio and TV stations in London. So Winchester students have "the best of both worlds" - easy access to the centre of London, but none of the cost, congestion and hassle of having to live in London itself, and avoiding the over-subscribed work attachment situation in London. Put simply it is much easier to get a good work attachment if you are based in a place like Winchester which is close to large numbers of non-metropolitan radio stations, as well as the over-subscribed London media.

"Why pay thousands and thousands more for an MA in London, when Winchester is newer and so effective in getting you ready for a job?" - Kieran Branigan, Winchester MA journalism graduate 2011, now on-screen reporter Al-Jazeera..