There are many guides, articles, hints and tips on how to start careers in journalism. This page brings some of those guides together.

The journalism courses at Winchester are very focused on helping students start careers in journalism and closely related fields. Our external validating cody, the Broadcast Journalism Training Council sets us the target of 100 percent of all students who graduate gaining a job in journalism or a closely related field after graduation.

Careers in journalism can be varied between different sectors such as magazine journalism, radio journalism, business news, sport, fashion and feature writing.

In normal economic conditions most students should be able to start their careers soon after graduating and some may have started before they even graduate. In times of economic recession the first opening may not come so quickly.

But it is very clear - in so far as anyone can see the future - that the sorts of skills which are developed by journalists and on journalism courses will be key economic survival skills for the future.

Magazine feature writer at work (left). The word 'journalism' covers a range of careers from news reporters to magazine writers and editors. It is important these days to have a good knowlege of all these areas, even though you may end up specialising in just one [picture: depolo (creative commons)]