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Lesson: How to develop a story

This lesson plan is designed to teach students how to find and assess important news angles for a breaking news story.
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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.
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Lesson: Creating a converged news operation

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

Investigative journalists need to learn how to interrogate official documents in order to find essential facts and then inform the audience. 
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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.
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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.
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Lesson: Developing and applying news sense

Developing a news sense in order to spot a story's importance to the audience.
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Lesson: Impartiality in journalism

This lesson plan is designed to teach students the importance of impartiality in journalism and the avoidance of bias.
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Lesson: Planning a journalistic investigation

A lesson plan to help journalists navigate the challenges of complex investigative reporting.
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Lesson: Gender equality in news production

A lesson plan is designed to help journalists understand the need to avoid stereotypes in their news writing.
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Lesson: The active and passive voices in news

A lesson plan to help journalism students understand the difference between the active and the passive voices in news
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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.
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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. 
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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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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...
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Lesson : Respecting privacy as a journalist

This lesson plan is designed to help journalists learn how to respect privacy while also being thorough as they investigate issues that are in the public interest.
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Lesson: Dealing with algorithmic bias in news

This lesson plan is designed to help journalists recognise and deal with algorithmic bias in the news production process.
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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.
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Lesson: Integrity in journalism

This lesson plan teaches students the importance of maintaining integrity in all their dealing in order to investigate issues thoroughly and truthfully without being influenced by external pressures.
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Lesson: Covering climate change

Reporting on climate change is a major challenge for journalists. The topic is topical, controversial, and rooted in complex scientific research.
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Lesson: Artificial intelligence in journalism

This one-day lesson outline is designed for working journalists and editors who want to understand how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping journalism.
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Lesson: Interviewing for journalists

This free day-long lesson plan is designed to equip students with the knowledge, skills, and ethical framework necessary to become a confident and competent interviewer. 
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Lesson: Using the right words

This lesson plan is designed to teach students the power of words and how to use them when writing a piece of journalism.