Exercises
Exercise: Editorialising is not for news
Editorialising should be avoided in news reporting because it blurs the line between fact and opinion, undermining accuracy, fairness, and public trust. This exercise is designed to help journalists recognise editorialising and avoid it.
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: The inverted pyramid in practice
The inverted pyramid model places the most fundamental and newsworthy information at the top followed by supporting details, with the least important background information at the bottom.
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: Planning a breaking news TV package
Reporting breaking TV news is a high-pressure race against the clock. You must balance real-time events with limited time for fact-checking and sourcing interviews.
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: Clichés, jargon & journalese
Journalists need to recognise and then avoid using journalese, jargon, and clichés. Their writing must be clear, easy to understand, and informative. This exercise is designed to help spot all three.
Exercise: Crime reporting for beginners
Journalists reporting on crime must balance the public’s right to know with ethical responsibilities, ensuring accuracy, fairness, and sensitivity while avoiding sensationalism and prejudice.