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Lessons

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Lesson: SMART objectives for training

This lesson plan is designed to teach how to apply SMART objectives to training programmes for journalists and media managers. It's based on the article...
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Lesson: How to make a documentary

This lesson plan is designed to help students learn the skills required to create compelling, in-depth and informative news documentaries.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Lesson: Impartiality in journalism

This lesson plan is designed to teach students the importance of impartiality in journalism and the avoidance of bias.
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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.
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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.

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Scenario: Conflict of interests

In this scenario you are a political correspondent working for a national public service broadcaster. A lobbying company offers you a significant amount of money to train lobbyists in how to influence the media. What do you do?

Module: News reporting and production

This six-week training module provides an outline for teaching students about researching, producing, and writing informative, accurate, and impartial news reports.

Knowing your audience

Identifying the target audience and discovering the information needs of readers, listeners and viewers, is essential for formulating an editorial proposition.