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: Covering climate change

Lesson: Pitching a news story to an editor

Lesson: Interviewing ‘off the record’

Lesson: Media project management skills

This lesson plan is designed to help journalists understand what is required to plan for news events, programmes and products.

Lesson: Referencing, attribution, and plagiarism

This lesson plan is designed to teach students how to reference material, provide attribution, and avoid plagiarism.

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 make a documentary

This lesson plan is designed to help students learn the skills required to create compelling, in-depth and informative news documentaries.

Lesson: Pitching a news story to an editor

This lesson plan provides a comprehensive guide to the essential skill of pitching a news story idea to an editor.

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.