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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: Fake news and trust chains
This lesson plan is designed to help journalists recognise the different types of 'fake news' and discover how to use 'trust chains' to deal with them.
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: 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: Developing and applying news sense
Developing a news sense in order to spot a story's importance to the audience.
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.
Lesson: Impartiality in journalism
This lesson plan is designed to teach students the importance of impartiality in journalism and the avoidance of bias.
Lesson: Conflicts of interest in journalism
This lesson plan emphasises the importance of understanding, identifying, and avoiding journalistic conflicts of interest in order to maintain editorial integrity and public trust.
Lesson: Preparing for and carrying out an interview
This lesson plan is designed to teach students how to carry out an interview in a way that reveals new and important information.
Lesson: Audience research and segmentation
This lesson plan is designed to help participants learn how to carry out audience research in order to better understand the needs of the target 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: 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: Clarity is as important as accuracy
A lesson plan designed to help students understand the importance of clarity in their writing so that they produce news articles that the reader can understand.
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