Media Helping Media provides free training resources for journalists and newsrooms committed to accurate, impartial, public-service journalism.
Created by experienced news professionals, our materials cover the core skills of news gathering, production, and dissemination. Everything on the site can be freely downloaded, adapted, and delivered — no registration, no personal details required.
Our aim is simple: to equip journalists with the tools they need to inform the public and strengthen independent media.
The history of Media Helping Media
MHM was conceived in 2005 following a chat between two former BBC colleagues, Dave Brewer and Bob Eggington, who had worked together at the BBC’s political unit in London and were part of the launch team for BBC News Online. Both have experience as reporters and managers in print, broadcast, and online journalism.
In recent years Dave and Bob have been working in the field of international media development, training journalists in basic journalism skills and helping media managers adapt to digital convergence and changing audience behaviour.
That work has taken them to countries where many were unable to pay for journalism training. Seeing the scale of the demand for training they decided that there needed to be a site offering free journalism training materials written in simple terms and accessible to all.
Once the idea had been developed, Dave took on to build and launch MHM, with Bob offering help and advice along the way.
Reproducing content
All the text on MHM is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. licence. That means you are free to reproduce, adapt and share the material for non-commercial purposes as long as you credit the original source and provide a link to the original material.
All the images used have been released by those who took them under the terms of Creative Commons so that they can be used by others as long as attribution is provided.
MHM and artificial intelligence (AI)
In 2025 we started adding edited AI-generated structures to some of the content on MHM. This process continues and seems likely to have a long-term place in MHM coverage. We are approaching our use of AI-generated content under these operating principles – we will:
- Use AI only to expand upon and support our own published content – not to generate original material.
- Check all AI-generated material carefully and edit it where necessary for accuracy, coherence and relevance.
- Always state openly where content has been produced with the help of AI.
We will keep the use of AI under constant review. Click here to find out more about how we use AI at MHM.
Mistakes
All we ask in return for using the training resources on MHM is to let us know if you see any errors. You can use the contact form accessed from a link at the foot of any page. We hope you find MHM helpful in your pursuit of journalistic excellence.
Authors
To find out who wrote a particular training module on MHM, scroll down to the foot of the page where you will find a biography box telling you about the person who contributed the piece.
Fojo Media Institute
In January 2018 the Fojo Media Institute agreed to host the site and adopt MHM as an official resource of journalism training modules.
Fojo’s mission is to strengthen free, independent and professional journalism, and, as such, is an ideal partner. Webmaster, communications specialist and journalist Anders Behrmann has been a great help on the technical side.
MHM has no political or financial backers.
Social media
MHM is active on Mastodon, BlueSky and Facebook where we share updates.