09/09/2022
Looking for a career change? Study our popular Business and Financial Journalism course to gain knowledge and skills to cover issues in the world of business management, economics, finance, investment, accounting or taxation.
What you will study:
- Essentials of journalism
- Journalism ethics and regulation
- Major finance newspapers, magazines and journals
- Corporate, financial and economic reporting skills for journalists
- Interviewing skills for journalists
- Data sources and analysis in business and financial journalism
- Analysing financial issues within a wider macroeconomic context: economics, politics, legislation, society, technology, environment
- Expanding specialist knowledge for business journalists: regions, sectors, companies, personalities
- Focus on globalisation, technology, sustainability, business ethics, equality and future of work in today’s journalist work
- Examining some of the best cases of financial investigative reporting
- Journalism vs. Investor and Public Relations (IR/PR) in the finance sector
- Financial blogging tools for digital journalism
- Reflective practice for journalists
- Creating a journalist e-portfolio
- Conducting a small-scale research project on business and financial journalist theories and practices
A unique feature of the course is an intensive one-week digital journalism bootcamp where students get practical experience of work in a technology-assisted newsroom.
Moreover, the articles you will write during the course for your journalist e-portfolio will be published in our School’s finance magazines, providing you with a proven record of publications.
When enrolled in this course, you will work alongside our research team at the LSFL Centre for the Study of Financial Journalism and Strategic Communications.
Study method: online learning with tutor guidance and support
Course length: 12 months (480 hours)
Read more about the qualification: https://courses.lsfl.org.uk/professional-diploma-in-business-and-financial-journalism/
Next term start date: 20 September 2022
Register by 10 September: https://lsfl.org.uk/registration/
You may be eligible for tuition funding: https://lsfl.org.uk/fees-and-funding/
with London School of Finance and Law