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.

Lessons

Lesson: The six essential questions

This lesson plan teaches students about the six essential questions - What? Why? When? How? Where? and Who?

Lesson: Word Power

This lesson plan is designed to teach students the power of words and how to use them when writing a piece of 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: Story Construction

This lesson plan is designed to help students understand how to construct a news report so that it is easily understood by the reader. It's...

Lesson: Accuracy In Journalism

This free lesson plan is designed to help journalism students learn how to gather, assemble, and publish or broadcast information that has been thoroughly checked to ensure it is factual and accurate.

Lesson: Investigative Dossier

This lesson plan is designed to give investigative journalists a checklist of the main areas of research needed in order to carry out a successful investigation.