Lessons
Lesson: Interviewing for journalists
This free day-long lesson plan is designed to equip students with the knowledge, skills, and ethical framework necessary to become a confident and competent interviewer.
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.
Lesson: Proactive story development
This lesson plan teaches journalists how to take a proactive approach to newsgathering by investigating, anticipating, exploring, and exposing stories of significant public interest.
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.
Lesson: Integrity in journalism
This lesson plan teaches students the importance of maintaining integrity in all their dealing in order to investigate issues thoroughly and truthfully without being influenced by external pressures.
Lesson: Setting up refugee media in exile
This lesson plan is designed to help students understand the essential steps for establishing a refugee media operation in exile, encompassing legal, editorial, and operational frameworks.
Lesson: Journalism and the public interest
A lesson plan to help students understand the difference between 'public interest' journalism and news that merely entertains.
Lesson: Language and style basics
A lesson plan to help students understand the importance of using the right language and style in their journalism.
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: Constructing a TV news package
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.
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: 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: The active and passive voices in news
A lesson plan to help journalism students understand the difference between the active and the passive voices in news
Lesson: Essential elements of a news story
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.
Lesson: Investigating Documents
Investigative journalists need to learn how to interrogate official documents in order to find essential facts and then inform the audience.
Lesson: Referencing, attribution, and plagiarism
This lesson plan is designed to teach students how to reference material, provide attribution, and avoid plagiarism.
Lesson: How to spot a news story
This lesson plan is designed to help students recognise how to spot a news story and develop it so that it informs the audience.
Lesson: Setting up community radio
This lesson is designed to help participants learn how to plan, set up, and manage a community radio station serving a specific audience with a unique editorial proposition.
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: False equivalence and false balance
This lesson plan is designed to help students avoid applying false equivalence and false balance to their news writing.
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.
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: How to interview politicians
This lesson plan is designed to help journalism students interview politicians in order to uncover answers that inform the audience.