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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: Language and style basics
A lesson plan to help students understand the importance of using the right language and style in their journalism.
Lesson: Impartiality in journalism
This lesson plan is designed to teach students the importance of impartiality in journalism and the avoidance of bias.
Lesson: Constructing a TV news package
A lesson plan to help students create a simple TV news package using their skills in reporting, filming, and editing, letting the pictures tell the story.
Lesson: Clichés, journalese, and jargon
This lesson plan is designed to enable journalism trainers to teach students the importance of avoiding clichés, journalese, and jargon in their writing.
Lesson: Becoming a sub-editor
A free day-long lesson plan covering the sub-editor's role as the newsroom's final line of defence - accuracy, house style, news sense, and digital skills.
Lesson: The importance of editorial ethics
This lesson plan is designed to help journalists understand the importance of applying editorial ethics to their newsgathering and news production.
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: What makes a news story
This lesson plan is designed to help journalists understand the sources of news stories and be able to order them in terms of their relevance to the audience.
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: How to interview politicians
This lesson plan is designed to help journalism students interview politicians in order to uncover answers that inform the audience.
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.
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