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: How to create a structured news report
This lesson plan is designed to help students understand how to construct a news report so that it is easily understood by the reader.
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Lesson: Media project management skills
This lesson plan is designed to help journalists understand what is required to plan for news events, programmes and products.
Lesson: Understanding interviewees
This lesson plan looks at why some people are willing to talk to an investigative journalist and why some won't.
Lesson: Gender equality in news production
A lesson plan is designed to help journalists understand the need to avoid stereotypes in their news writing.
Lesson: Interviewing for journalists
This free day-long lesson plan is designed to equip students with the knowledge, skills, and ethical framework necessary to become a confident and competent interviewer.
Lesson: Audience research and segmentation
This lesson plan is designed to help participants learn how to carry out audience research in order to better understand the needs of the target audience.
Lesson: Fact-checking and adding context
This lesson plan is designed to teach students how to fact-check then add context so that the information produced in a news report is accurate and complete.
Lesson: Fairness in journalism
Fairness in journalism is the concept of reporting news without bias or prejudice.
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