Exercises
Exercise: Understanding unconscious bias
This exercise is designed to help journalists understand how unconscious bias can undermine journalistic integrity and distort how news is covered.
Exercise: Planning a breaking news TV package
Reporting breaking news on TV is a high-pressure race. You must balance real-time events with limited time for fact-checking and sourcing interviews.
Exercise: Editorialising is not for news
Learn to recognise and avoid editorialising in news reporting. Ensure accuracy and fairness by keeping a clear line between facts and opinions.
Exercise: Understanding post-truth in journalism
For journalists, post-truth represents a critical challenge to our core mission of informing the public with accurate, verified information. This exercise deals with some...
Exercise: Referencing, attribution, and plagiarism
Original journalism often begins by finding a unique, unexplored angle within existing public information or the reporting of others. This exercise looks at what a journalist should do in those situations.
Exercise: Questions every journalist should ask
There are six questions that a journalists should consider asking. They are What? Why? When? How? Where? and Who? This exercise considers their use in journalism.
Exercise: Developing important news angles
Finding new angles on developing news stories is essential. Journalists must explain how news events impact their audience's lives. This exercise will help reporters find out how.
Exercise: The inverted pyramid
Inverted pyramid writing puts essential, newsworthy info first, followed by supporting details and background. It ensures readers see the most vital facts straight away.