Why study at Griffith?
The media plays a major role in today’s society and Griffith's journalism program takes a highly practical approach to training students to participate in the media.
Report on what you know
Students not only learn basic journalistic skills but also have the opportunity to study area relevant to the areas about which they want to report. Everyone specialises in two areas of interest to understand the background to the stories they report.
Specialisations available include:
- Environment
- International relations
- Politics
- Marketing
- Sport
- Tourism
- Public Relations
- Science
- History
- Literature
Students interested in developing careers as critics, or who just want to build their skills in a creative area, can specialise in disciplines such as:
- Contemporary arts
- Creative industries
- Digital video
- Digital writing
- Film criticism
- Popular music
- Writing
Leading staff
Journalism staff at Griffith University are among the leaders in journalism research in Australia and have produced many important text books and ghovernment reports used by journalism programs around Australia.
For example, Associate Professor Stephen Stockwell is the co-author of the All Media Guide to Fair and Cross Cultural Reporting (PDF 2.3mb).
Susan Forde and Michael Meadows were also co-authors of Culture, commitment, community - the Australian community radio sector, which is an analysis of community radio.
Be prepared for anything (and everything)
Not everybody can be a star in front of the camera, so all our graduates are job-ready and have the expertise to perform general media work such press liaison, media monitoring, program research, web concept production etc.
We are just as proud of graduates who have started their own freelance careers and small businesses. Griffith journalism graduates have their eyes on the prize but their feet firmly on the ground.