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Media Helping Media is hosted by the Fojo Media Institute at Linnaeus University.
Lessons
Our free day-long lessons offer in-depth journalism training. Each structured lesson includes practical exercises, real-world examples, and assessment tools. Visit our site map for all the content in this and other sections.
Lesson: Planning a journalistic investigation
A lesson plan to help journalists navigate the challenges of complex investigative reporting.
Lesson: Becoming a sub-editor
A free day-long lesson plan covering the sub-editor's role as the newsroom's final line of defence - accuracy, house style, news sense, and digital skills.
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: Creating a converged news operation
This lesson plan is designed to help senior media managers understand and implement a converge newsroom strategy.
Lesson: Journalism and propaganda
This lesson plan is designed to help journalists recognise the different propaganda and discover ways to deal with it when covering news.
Lesson: Making documentaries for radio
This lesson plan sets out the steps required to make informative long-form news and current affairs documentaries for radio.
Lesson: Interviewing ‘off the record’
This lesson plan is designed to help journalists understand the purpose, the benefits, and the risks of ‘off the record’ interviews.
Lesson: Keeping news records
In this lesson students discover why maintaining detailed records of news stories is essential for accuracy and covering news in depth.
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: Remote interviewing for journalists
This lesson plan is designed to equip journalists with the strategic skills needed to navigate the challenges and maximise the advantages of remote interviewing.
Lesson: Engaging viewers and listeners
This lesson outlined is designed to help news presenters deliver TV and radio bulletins that engage and inform the audience.
Lesson: How to interview politicians
This lesson plan is designed to help journalism students interview politicians in order to uncover answers that inform the audience.
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