Lessons

Our free day-long lessons provide comprehensive, in-depth training on specific journalism topics. Each structured lesson includes theoretical foundations, practical exercises, real-world examples, and assessment tools, offering complete teaching packages for trainers or intensive self-study for journalists. All our material is free to download, adapt and use. Scroll down our site map for all the content in this and other sections.

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Lesson: Understanding interviewees

Lesson: Language and style basics

Lesson: Letting the pictures tell the story

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.

Lesson: How to develop a story

This lesson plan is designed to teach students how to find and assess important news angles for a breaking news story.

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: Unconscious bias and its impact on news

This lesson plan is is designed to help students recognise their own unconscious bias and find ways to avoid bias in their journalism.

Lesson: Integrity in journalism

This lesson plan teaches students the importance of maintaining integrity in all their dealing in order to investigate issues thoroughly and truthfully without being influenced by external pressures.

Lesson: How to spot a news story

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: How to interview politicians

This lesson plan is designed to help journalism students interview politicians in order to uncover answers that inform the audience.

Lesson: Setting up refugee media in exile

This lesson plan is designed to help students understand the essential steps for establishing a refugee media operation in exile, encompassing legal, editorial, and operational frameworks.