Lessons

This lesson plan helps students prioritise key news elements, ensuring readers grasp essential facts even if they only engage with the first few lines of a story.

This one-day lesson outline is designed for working journalists and editors who want to understand how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping journalism.

A lesson plan to help journalism students understand the difference between the active and the passive voices in news

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

This lesson plan teaches students the importance of avoiding all forms of editorialising when producing news journalism. 

This lesson plan teaches trainers how to write and apply SMART objectives to training programmes created for journalists and media managers. It's based on the article SMART objectives for media training which we recommend trainers read before adapting this lesson plan for your own purposes. Lesson...

A lesson plan to help students create a simple TV news package using their skills in reporting, filming, and editing, letting the pictures tell the story.

Journalists who have mastered basic fact-checking skills need to develop systems for dealing with all forms of fake news.

This lesson plan is designed to teach students how to carry out an interview in a way that reveals new and important information.

This lesson plan is designed to help journalists understand the purpose, the benefits, and the risks of ‘off the record’ interviews.

This lesson plan is designed to help students recognise how to spot a news story and develop it so that it informs the audience.

This lesson plan sets out the steps required to make informative long-form news and current affairs documentaries for radio.