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Lessons
Our free day-long lessons offer in-depth journalism training. Each structured lesson includes practical exercises, real-world examples, and assessment tools. Visit our site map for all the content in this and other sections.
Lesson: Engaging viewers and listeners
This lesson outlined is designed to help news presenters deliver TV and radio bulletins that engage and inform the audience.
Lesson: Creating a converged news operation
This lesson plan is designed to help senior media managers understand and implement a converge newsroom strategy.
Lesson: Setting up a refugee media operation
This lesson plan is designed to help students understand the essential steps for establishing a refugee media operation and dealing with legal, editorial, and operational issues.
Lesson: Keeping news records
In this lesson students discover why maintaining detailed records of news stories is essential for accuracy and covering news in depth.
Lesson: Artificial intelligence in journalism
This one-day lesson outline is designed for working journalists and editors who want to understand how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping journalism.
Lesson: Covering climate change
Reporting on climate change is a major challenge for journalists. The topic is topical, controversial, and rooted in complex scientific research.
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: The importance of editorial ethics
This lesson plan is designed to help journalists understand the importance of applying editorial ethics to their newsgathering and news production.
Lesson: How to develop news angles
A lesson plan is designed to help trainers teach students how to seek out new angles on a breaking, developing or running news story.
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: 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.
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