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Quick Guides
Our free quick guides are short checklists designed as self-teaching aids highlighting the main points from some of our training articles. All are linked to the articles they summarise. Visit our site map for all the content in this and other sections.
Quick Guide: Managing conflicts of interest
Use this checklist to manage conflicts of interest and protect your journalistic integrity. It's designed to maintain audience trust and professional standards.
Quick Guide: Attribution in journalism
Master news attribution and referencing by following our checklist for ensuring your reporting is accurate, credible, and avoids plagiarism.
Quick Guide: Broadcast news packaging
Master the art of creating broadcast news packages. This guide covers voiceovers, interviews, and natural sound to help you build compelling stories.
Quick Guide: Adjectives and adverbs in journalism
Streamline your writing with this short how-to checklist. Use it to strip away confusing clutter and sharpen your journalism for better clarity.
Quick Guide: The role of the investigative sub-editor
Investigative sub-editors play a vital role in ensuring that journalism investigations are carried out to the highest-standards.
Quick Guide: Developing and handling news sources
Use this checklist to ensure you build and manage credible news sources so that your journalism remains authoritative, original, and high-quality.
Quick Guide: Using quotes in journalism
Quotes are a journalist’s most powerful tool. Used well, they bring stories to life, add credibility, and let audiences hear directly from sources.
Quick Guide: Story leaks and tip-offs
This checklist sets out how journalists should handle story leaks and tip-offs, starting with the essential first step: verifying the source.
Quick Guide: Grammar for journalists
Journalists must follow key grammar rules to write clearly. Avoiding common mistakes is vital. Explore these news writing style tips.
Quick Guide: Visual storytelling
TV reporting is about letting pictures tell the story. Here is how to build a package by thinking visually first to engage your audience.
Quick Guide: How to deal with press releases
Press releases serve the issuer’s agenda, not yours. Treat them as a starting point. Verify, add context, and, if appropriate, turn them into impactful stories.
Quick Guide: Court reporting for beginners
Reporting on legal proceedings is a vital part of journalism, but it requires strict discipline and a clear understanding of the law.
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