Lessons
A collection of free lesson plans designed to provide journalism trainers with an outline for creating their own training courses based on Media Helping Media articles.
Lesson: The Active Voice
A lesson plan to help journalism students understand the difference between the active and the passive voices in news
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.
Lesson: Radio documentaries
This lesson plan sets out the steps required to make informative long-form news and current affairs documentaries for radio.
Lesson: Proactive Journalism
This lesson plan teaches journalists how to take a proactive approach to newsgathering by investigating, anticipating, exploring, and exposing stories of significant public interest.
Lesson: Investigating Documents
Investigative journalists need to learn how to interrogate official documents in order to find essential facts and then inform the audience.
Lesson: News Sources
This lesson plan is designed to help journalists understand the sources of news stories and be able to order them in terms of their relevance to the audience.
Lesson: Journalese
This lesson plan is designed to enable journalism trainers to teach students the importance of avoiding clichés, journalese, and jargon in their writing.
Lesson: Language and Style
A lesson plan to help students understand the importance of using the right language and style in their journalism.
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Lesson: Word Power
This lesson plan is designed to teach students the power of words and how to use them when writing a piece of journalism.