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Exercises

Our free one-hour exercises provide practical skill-building activities for self-directed learning or classroom use. These focused, interactive exercises target specific journalism competencies, allowing you to test your knowledge, identify areas for improvement, and build confidence through hands-on practice. All our material is free to download, adapt and use. Scroll down our site map for all the content in this and other sections.

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Exercise: Interviewing skills

Understanding how to conduct an interview is essential if a journalist is to uncover previously unknown facts and produce original news stories.
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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.
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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. 
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Exercise: Adjectives and adverbs in journalism

Journalists should not waste words. Their writing should be concise and tight. Adjectives and adverbs clutter up news stories and should be avoided wherever possible.
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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.
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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.
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Exercise: Active and passive voices

Discover how journalists use the active voice to capture action and seize reader attention. Master impactful writing techniques for fast-paced news stories.
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Exercise: Packaging for radio news

This exercise sets out the basics for creating a news package for radio. It’s been created for those starting out in radio journalism.
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