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: Beyond basic fact-checking
Journalists who have mastered basic fact-checking skills need to develop systems for dealing with all forms of fake news.
Lesson: Documentary making
This lesson plan is designed to help students learn the skills required to create compelling, in-depth and informative news documentaries.
Lesson: Interviewing Skills
This lesson plan is designed to teach students how to carry out an interview in a way that reveals new and important information.
Lesson: News Sense
Developing a news sense in order to spot a story's importance to the audience.
Lesson: Election coverage
A lesson outline for trainers to teach students how to plan election coverage.
Lesson: Visual Storytelling
Television journalists need to ensure that they are exploiting the medium to the maximum effect by letting the pictures tell the story.
Lesson: Clarity
A lesson plan designed to help students understand the importance of clarity in their writing so that they produce news articles that the reader can understand.
Lesson: Offence and Journalism
This lesson plan is designed to help students avoid causing unnecessary offence while continuing to produce robust, critical, in-depth journalism.
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Interviewing integrity – scenario
In this scenario, an award-winning journalist is offered a top job at national TV station, but soon after starting her new job she discovers corruption in the media house.
Lesson: Impartiality
This lesson plan is designed to teach students the importance of impartiality in journalism and the avoidance of bias.