Lessons

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: Offence and journalism

This lesson plan is designed to help students avoid causing unnecessary offence while continuing to produce robust, critical, in-depth 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: 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: Unconscious bias and its impact on news

This lesson plan is is designed to help students recognise their own unconscious bias and find ways to avoid bias in their journalism.

Lesson: Creating a converged news operation

This lesson plan is designed to help senior media managers understand and implement a converge newsroom strategy. 

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: Investigating Documents

Investigative journalists need to learn how to interrogate official documents in order to find essential facts and then inform the audience. 

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Lesson: Constructing a radio news package

A lesson plan to help teach students how to create a news package for radio.