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Teesside is a Media Academy
The University has achieved Media Academy status and is part of the Skillset Media Academy Network. The network is a group of UK institutions identified by Skillset on behalf of the UK television and interactive industries as centres of excellence in creative media education and training. The unrivalled reputation of the academy network provides the ideal environment for developing leading edge creativity, innovation and talent.
Study in America
We have teamed up with the University of South Carolina to offer you the opportunity to spend your second year studying in America.
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We studied media at Teesside
Part of the network of Skillset Academies
Dom Shaw came to study at Teesside to follow his dream of becoming a journalist.
Meet Dom Shaw 
BA (Hons) Multimedia Journalism Professional Practice
Dannielle Jones BA (Hons) Television Production Professional Practice Dannielle Jones is a technical operator at Yorkshire Television – she started out as a trainee. (1min)
Steven Todd BA (Hons) Television Production Professional Practice Steven Todd went on to be a camera operator and editor at twenty first century media. (1min)
Visiting professionals
Each year our media students get valuable inside information and advice from visitng professionals.
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Radio, cinema, mobile or Playstation?
We live in a media-saturated environment - from the moment we put on the radio and TV in the morning, pick up a newspaper or glossy magazine, pop to the cinema, turn up the volume on our MP3 player, get the news from our mobile phone, blast the aliens on our Playstation, watch the latest music video, or settle down to surf the net. So we offer courses embracing all these factors.
Our media portfolio is designed to meet the needs of today's media industry. The courses investigate media in its traditional forms such as print journalism, film, television and radio as well as the internet and interactive media forms.
Single honours
Winner of the Best Student Factual Production - Working the Zone - produced, directed and edited by Danielle Jones, second year student at Teesside University
Tom Gutteridge Chairman of the Skillset Northern Media Industries Panel and Standing Stone Productions
'I was really impressed by the standard of filmmaking. The students presented a broad range of subjects, most very well crafted and some excellent. Standards at Teesside are rising every year, and with the University achieving Skillset Academy status, I’m hopeful it will supply some of the next generation of talent for the television and film industries.'
Media Studies explores traditional and new media formats, and is designed to equip you with vocationally relevant skills. We have professional practice courses in television and media. Ours multimedia journalism programme allows you to leave university accredited to work in today's multimedia newsrooms.
Major-minor honours
Our major-minor honours degrees allow you to combine media-related work with more traditional subjects or to build diverse practical skills. These courses might be of particular interest if you're thinking of becoming a teacher and need qualifications in National Curriculum subjects.
Our resources
We offer professional standard technical production, teaching and research facilities run by a team of specialist staff with experience in broadcast industries, including Anglia Television and BBC TV. Our facilities are constantly upgraded to ensure you are using the same equipment and software you will be expected to use in the industry. Our editing software, Final Cut Pro, is fast becoming the preferred industry standard. The camera, sound and lighting equipment have been chosen by staff who use it in their professional television work.
Post production facilities include six edit suites, a post production teaching facility, and a multi-format edit suite enabling projects to be mastered onto DV, Digibeta and HDV. We also have separate audio post-production facilities. Radio production has a separate teaching and post production space with 20 Apple Mac workstations.
Athena
In 2007 the Athena Building opened. Around £10m has been invested to provide one of the country's best teaching and learning environments in all digital aspects of media.
Northern Region Film and Television Archive
You also have access to the Northern Region Film and Television Archive on campus containing over 40,000 hours of material. Certain collections, including the Tyne Tees Television archive, are available to use in your own programmes. The Gazette Media Centre next to the campus gives you access to use a professional newspaper editorial system.
Quality teaching
Our staff have expertise in a wide range of media practice and theory including network and regional broadcast television and radio production, corporate video production, print journalism, film history, research methods and media theory.
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