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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: Investigating Documents
Investigative journalists need to learn how to interrogate official documents in order to find essential facts and then inform the audience.
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: 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: Journalism, trauma, and stress
This lesson plan is designed to help journalists recognise and manage trauma and stress in the course of their work.
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: Planning tips for effective election coverage
A lesson outline for trainers to teach students how to plan election coverage.
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: Planning a journalistic investigation
A lesson plan to help journalists navigate the challenges of complex investigative reporting.
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.
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: 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: 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.
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