Journalism

Our journalism section covers essential skills and techniques across all formats and experience levels. From foundational reporting principles to advanced storytelling methods, explore comprehensive resources designed to strengthen your craft and deepen your understanding of modern news media. All our material is free to download, adapt and use. Scroll down our site map for all the content in this and other sections.

From our journalism basics section

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Preparing for an interview

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The active and passive voices in news

Essential elements of a news story

From our advanced journalism section

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Data journalism glossary

The following words and terms are commonly used in data journalism. Data journalists might want to familiarise themselves with them.

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Specialisms in journalism

Specialist reporting means going beyond general news coverage in order to develop deep expertise, insight and trust in a particular subject area.

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Old news is no news, updates are essential

Journalism involves an ongoing commitment to update and rework the material we are producing to ensure that it remains relevant, reflects latest developments, and continues to inform.

From our investigative journalism section

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The investigative journalism mindset

The investigative mindset is responsible for solving more information mysteries than probably any other factor. If you haven’t started writing down your best strategies now might be the time to start.

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Investigative journalism best-practice

Investigative journalism: Avoiding common mistakes

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Staying safe when investigating corruption

Investigative journalists face risks when reporting on corruption. Discover essential safety strategies for covering stories that expose well-hidden secrets.

From our editorial ethics section

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Fairness in journalism

Fairness in journalism means exploring all sides of an issue and reporting the findings accurately.

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Conflicts of interest

In journalism, public trust is essential for credibility. One of the most significant threats to that trust are the many possible conflicts of interest that might confront journalists.

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Is your journalism ethical?

Reliable journalism is based on applying strict editorial ethics to all we do so that we can examine the issues that have the most impact on the lives of our audience.

From our Scenarios section

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Trespass and journalism – scenario

In this scenario we look at a situation where a journalist is faced with breaking the law in order to gather essential information for informing the public debate.

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Privacy protection – scenario

You are working on the online news desk of a large media organisation. News breaks of fighting overseas. Raw footage arrives showing identifiable dead bodies. What do you do?

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Doorstepping – scenario

You are a local newspaper reporter sent out to doorstep a bereaved family but you lie to your news editor because you are reluctant to intrude on their grief.