Lessons
A collection of free lesson plans designed to provide journalism trainers with an outline for creating their own training courses based on Media Helping Media articles.
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: 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 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: 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: Language and style basics
A lesson plan to help students understand the importance of using the right language and style in their journalism.
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: The questions every journalist should ask
This lesson plan teaches students about the six essential questions - What? Why? When? How? Where? and Who?
Lesson: Fake news and trust chains
This lesson plan is designed to help journalists recognise the different types of 'fake news' and discover how to use 'trust chains' to deal with them.
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