Communication processes have had to adapt to a technological evolution that is unprecedented in history. Journalism, as an essential discipline in a social and democratic environment, requires constant updating in the use and mastery of digital tools.
The new ways of preparing and consuming information require professionals capable of handling a large number of digital tools and analyzing an ever-increasing volume of information. Essential proposals for Communication companies such as Data Journalism, 360º projects or Immersive Journalism have been implemented in recent years in the media and are elements that are generating new job opportunities.
Through this program, students master the process of planning, creating, and designing content for digital media and learn to be journalists in this field where printed press, radio, and television converge.
Nebrija University offers the Master's Degree in Digital and Data Journalism, where students prepare to be a writer in the field of digital communication, data journalist, editor and manager of online content, entrepreneur of new media and 360º projects, journalist specialized in data management and visualization, community manager or, among other outlets, audience analyst in digital media.
Read moreThe curriculum constantly updates its contents, forced by the speed in which digital processes evolve. Said updating is supervised each academic year by prestigious professionals. Its journalistic content and the learning of the most advanced technological skills, applied to the analysis, confirmation and presentation of data, make this postgraduate degree one of the most complete on the market.
In the 2022-2023 academic year, the School of Communication and Arts signed an agreement with 20minutos, a newspaper belonging to the Henneo Group and audience leader in digital information. As a result of this agreement, prominent professionals with high prestige in their areas of competence joined the postgraduate faculty. In addition, the program has an academic and professional teaching staff immersed in the digital and data world. This entire cast of professionals will instruct students from a practical point of view in the creation, planning and dissemination of content adapted to the most avant-garde formats.
This collaboration guarantees training that is very connected to the professional world and the needs of the transmedia area. In addition, the various agreements signed with the media in the communication sector facilitate internships for our students.
Read lessSpecialize in digital journalism and information management of data with this Official Master's Degree that has the support of 20minutos as a partner, a leading and reference newspaper in Spain in the digital sector.
20 Minutos is the leading general information newspaper in Spain, and belongs to the Henneo group, which has high prestige media, such as El Heraldo de Aragón, La Información and Cinemanía, in addition to television production companies with more than 3,500 annual hours of production.
Student profile: Those interested in studying and obtaining the degree of Master's Degree in Digital and Data Journalism from Nebrija University will seek specialization in the communication and digital information sector in all its new aspects. They should be restless, have critical judgment and be willing to report on current issues through the most innovative platforms. They will be people familiar with the latest technological tools, capable of adapting quickly to new processes of content creation and management. They can be journalists with or without experience, graduates in related degrees, such as advertising or marketing, or graduates in various specialties who are interested in academic or professional research, where the analysis of data sets and their visualization is necessary.
Graduate profile: Professionals specialized in the field of digital and data journalism, with advanced technological knowledge and skills, which are necessary to work in an online communicative environment where media converge and platforms multiply, leading to a consumption of diverse and changing information content.
Official Degree:Master´s Degree in Digital and Data Journalism
Center responsible:School of Communication and Arts
Branch of knowledge: Social and Legal Sciences
Openings available: Total places: 100
Classroom attendance mode: 30
Online: 70
Total Credits:60 credits.
Minimum of 12 ECTS credits and maximum of 60 ECTS credits per enrollment and academic period.
Academic year in which it was implemented: 2013-2014
Duration: 1 year. From October to June
Language: Spanish
Schedule: from Monday to Friday, afternoons
Type of Education: Classroom attendance / Online
Academic Regulations: General student’s regulations. Credit transfer and recognition. Regulation of student participation. Common procedures for carrying out the Final Research Project
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The student must complete 60 credits
Profesores Professors | Porcentaje de Doctores Percentage of PhD holders |
25 | 72% |
It is an essential requirement to access the Master's programs to have a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in accordance with the current legislation. A Bachelor's Degree in Communication Sciences (Journalism, Audiovisual Communication, Advertising and Public Relations) will be especially valued. In this sense, we are looking for students who have skills that foresee a good disposition for teamwork, have great flexibility and open-mindedness to the incorporation of new knowledge and new ways of working, and that, regardless of what scientific or technical studies they come from, they show a great interest in the humanities in general, and a great sense of social responsibility in professional work.
The admission process to the Master's degree begins by sending the following documentation by post or courier to the Postgraduate Admissions Section:
Once the documentation has been received and it has been verified that the diploma submitted grants to the degree, as established in Arts. 15 and 16 of Royal Decree 1393/2007, candidates take the admission test with the coordinator of the degree. This test is carried out in person in Madrid when possible or, failing that, it can also be taken remotely (online) for those candidates residing outside of Spain.
The candidate holds a personal interview with the Program Coordinator. This interview is in itself an admission test in which the specific knowledge of the candidate is evaluated through a battery of questions about the area of knowledge, as well as their level of maturity and attitudes to it. After this interview, the coordinator prepares a report on the candidate's skills profile, his degree of maturity, his personal interest in Audiovisual Journalism and his suitability for the degree, which is attached to the file that the Admissions Commission will assess.
The University Admissions Commission, made up of heads of the Department itself, the General Secretary and the Department of University Development will be in charge of proposing to the Rector of the University the granting of student status to those candidates whose suitability has been proven.
The candidate receives written information about their admission, which is previously provided by phone, about the result of the admission process and formalizing their enrollment in the Program, the definitive documentation, duly legalized, that must be submitted, etc.
The faculty of the School of Communication and Arts is made up of professionals from each field of specialization, who develop a teaching method based on the conviction that what we learn, we learn by doing it.
Integration into the profession is based on the incorporation of professionals such as associate professors who guarantee each program, on a teaching methodology inspired by the learning-by-doing model that impacts the experiential aspect in the classrooms and in the activities of academic extension.
The Master's Degree in Digital and Data Journalism trains professionals who in the future may work as the following:
These are some of the companies and programs where the students of the Master's Degree in Digital and Data Journalism have carried out internships in recent years:
The School of Communication and Arts of the Nebrija University celebrates the NIPHO contest again, in this case, its 12 + 1 edition, which awards the best journalistic works of the students in different categories: written press, television, radio, photography... In addition, it recognizes the career of two great professionals. On this occasion, the winners will be Mercedes Milá and Eva Tribiño.
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