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Media Helping Media is hosted by the Fojo Media Institute at Linnaeus University.
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: The active and passive voices in news
A lesson plan to help journalism students understand the difference between the active and the passive voices in news
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: Constructing a radio news package
A lesson plan to help teach students how to create a news package for radio.
Lesson: Editorialising is not for news
This lesson plan teaches students the importance of avoiding all forms of editorialising when producing news journalism.
Lesson: The questions every journalist should ask
This lesson plan teaches students about the six essential questions - What? Why? When? How? Where? and Who?
Lesson: Becoming a sub-editor
A free day-long lesson plan covering the sub-editor's role as the newsroom's final line of defence - accuracy, house style, news sense, and digital skills.
Lesson: Avoiding retraumatisation in journalism
This lesson plan teaches journalists and media students how to report on people who have experienced trauma without causing them further harm.
Lesson: Systems thinking for journalists
This journalism lesson plan teaches systems thinking to help students produce more comprehensive and robust news reports
Lesson: Setting up community radio
This lesson is designed to help participants learn how to plan, set up, and manage a community radio station serving a specific audience with a unique editorial proposition.
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: 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: How to conduct an interview
This lesson plan is designed to teach students how to carry out an interview in a way that reveals new and important information.
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