Meeting the expectations of the changing media landscape.
We teach our students to tell great stories in innovative and engaging ways, and to shape the future using creativity and imagination.
Professionalism, creativity, and scholarship underpin our course content, which equips students with multiplatform media, writing and research skills, as well as traditional journalistic attributes of fairness, accuracy, persistence, curiosity, and news sense.
Using UQ's state-of-the-art production facilities, as a journalism student you'll extend your theoretical knowledge by gaining sought-after skills in field recording and camera work, sound editing, vision and pictures, data analysis, publishing and entrepreneurialism, and multi-platform distribution.
You'll also gain valuable insights into current production values and practices from the on-site Media and Production Support team (MaPS), and industry professionals drawn from leading media outlets.
Despite the highly competitive nature of journalism, UQ graduates have high success rates in securing jobs across the media – in metropolitan and national newspapers, commercial and public radio and television, news agencies and magazines in Australia and around the world, with many now in senior positions.
"UQ well and truly laid the foundations and taught me the fundamentals of what it takes to succeed in the journalism industry. My studies gave me the confidence to seek out opportunities and go beyond the classroom."
"I was in my first year of study at UQ when I was offered a junior role...Over the next few years I put my hand up for everything: I worked in the news library, filled in as a PA, assisted the chief of staff, rolled autocue, researched stories, and put bulletins to air from the control room."
"During my time studying journalism we were encouraged and supported to find internships. I interned at the ABC, Brisbane Times and more, opportunities that gave me incredible experience in my field before graduation."