Lessons

Our free day-long lessons provide comprehensive, in-depth training on specific journalism topics. Each structured lesson includes theoretical foundations, practical exercises, real-world examples, and assessment tools, offering complete teaching packages for trainers or intensive self-study for journalists. All our material is free to download, adapt and use. Scroll down our site map for all the content in this and other sections.

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Lesson: The active and passive voices in news

Lesson: How to interview politicians

Lesson: Creating a converged news operation

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: Pitching a news story to an editor

This lesson plan provides a comprehensive guide to the essential skill of pitching a news story idea to an editor.

Lesson: Creating a converged news operation

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

Lesson: Essential elements of a news story

This lesson teaches students how to prioritise the main elements in a news story.

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: Remote interviewing for journalists

This lesson plan is designed to equip journalists with the strategic skills needed to navigate the challenges and maximise the advantages of remote interviewing.

Lesson: Impartiality in journalism

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

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...