Lessons
Lesson: Covering climate change
Reporting on climate change poses a series of significant challenges to journalists. The subject is highly topical, highly controversial and involves complicated scientific research.
Lesson: The investigative dossier
This lesson plan provides investigative journalists with a comprehensive checklist of key research areas essential for conducting a successful investigation.
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: AI and investigative journalism
This lesson plan sets out how journalists can use artificial intelligence (AI) in investigative journalism.
Lesson: Interviewing ‘off the record’
This lesson plan is designed to help journalists understand the purpose, the benefits, and the risks of ‘off the record’ interviews.
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: Understanding interviewees
This lesson plan looks at why some people are willing to talk to an investigative journalist and why some won't.
Lesson: Developing and applying news sense
Developing a news sense in order to spot a story's importance to the audience.