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: Offence and Journalism
This lesson plan is designed to help students avoid causing unnecessary offence while continuing to produce robust, critical, in-depth journalism.
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: 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: Identifying news
This lesson plan is designed to help students recognise how to spot a news story and develop it so that it informs the audience.
Lesson: Fairness in Journalism
Fairness in journalism is the concept of reporting news without bias or prejudice.
Lesson: Fake News
This lesson plan is designed to help journalists recognise the different types of 'fake news' and discover how to use 'trust chains' to deal with them.
Lesson: Managing Trauma
This lesson plan is designed to help journalism students understand the issues of trauma, stress and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the context of...
Lesson: Gap Analysis
This lesson plan is designed to help participants understand the importance of carrying out 'gap analysis when designing a training of trainers (ToT) course.
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