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Lesson: Compiling an investigative journalism dossier

This lesson plan is designed to give investigative journalists a checklist of the main areas of research needed in order to carry out a successful investigation.
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Lesson: Constructing a TV news package

A lesson plan to help students create a simple TV news package using their skills in reporting, filming, and editing, letting the pictures tell the story.
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Lesson: Journalism and the public interest

A lesson plan to help students understand the difference between 'public interest' journalism and news that merely entertains.
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Lesson: Conflicts of interest in journalism

This lesson plan emphasises the importance of understanding, identifying, and avoiding journalistic conflicts of interest in order to maintain editorial integrity and public trust.
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Lesson: Dealing with algorithmic bias in news

This lesson plan is designed to help journalists recognise and deal with algorithmic bias in the news production process.
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Lesson: Accuracy in journalism

This free lesson plan is designed to help journalism students learn how to gather, assemble, and publish or broadcast information that has been thoroughly checked to ensure it is factual and accurate.
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Lesson: Editorialising is not for news

This lesson plan teaches students the importance of avoiding all forms of editorialising when producing news journalism. 
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Lesson: Brand values in news

This lesson plan is designed to help participants understand the importance of brand values in news and how they apply to journalists..

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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.

Community radio project plan

Launching a community radio station is a complicated exercise with lots of overlapping elements. The most important thing to do, before you do anything else, is to stop and think.

Withholding information – scenario

In this scenario a journalist comes across information that changes the focus of a story the editor had asked them to write. Should they include it or withhold it.