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: Covering climate change
This lesson plan is designed to equip journalists with the knowledge and skills necessary to report accurately and ethically on climate change.
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: Fact-checking and adding context
This lesson plan is designed to teach students how to fact-check then add context so that the information produced in a news report is accurate and complete.
Lesson: The use of adjectives and adverbs in journalism
When it comes to writing news stories adjectives and adverbs should be avoided wherever possible.
Lesson: Constructing a radio news package
A lesson plan to help teach students how to create a news package for radio.
Lesson: Fake news and trust chains
This lesson plan is designed to help journalists recognise the different types of 'fake news' and discover how to use 'trust chains' to deal with them.
Lesson: Developing and applying news sense
Developing a news sense in order to spot a story's importance to the audience.
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.
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Lesson: Fake news and trust chains
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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.
Computer-assisted reporting (CAR)
Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR) refers to the use of digital tools such as spreadsheets, databases, and basic statistical analysis to interrogate large datasets.