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: Planning tips for effective election coverage
A lesson outline for trainers to teach students how to plan election coverage.
Lesson: Audience research and segmentation
This lesson plan is designed to help participants learn how to carry out audience research in order to better understand the needs of the target audience.
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: Brand values in news
This lesson plan is designed to help participants understand the importance of brand values in news and how they apply to journalists..
Lesson: Preparing for and carrying out 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.
Lesson : Respecting privacy as a journalist
This lesson plan is designed to help journalists learn how to respect privacy while also being thorough as they investigate issues that are in the public interest.
Lesson: Gap analysis for training
This lesson plan is designed to help participants understand the importance of carrying out 'gap analysis when designing a training of trainers (ToT) course.
Lesson: Language and style basics
A lesson plan to help students understand the importance of using the right language and style in their journalism.
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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.
Forms of information disorder
With the spread of fake news, journalists need to recognise and understand the different categories, types, elements, and phases of information disorder.
Lesson: Beyond basic fact-checking
Journalists who have mastered basic fact-checking skills need to develop systems for dealing with all forms of fake news.