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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: Keeping news records
In this lesson students discover why maintaining detailed records of news stories is essential for accuracy and covering news in depth.
Lesson: Accuracy in journalism
This free lesson plan is designed to help journalism students learn how to gather, assemble, and publish or broadcast information that has been thoroughly checked to ensure it is factual and accurate.
Lesson: The use of adjectives and adverbs in journalism
When it comes to writing news stories adjectives and adverbs should be avoided wherever possible.
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.
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: 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 create a structured news report
This lesson plan is designed to help students understand how to construct a news report so that it is easily understood by the reader.
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Lesson: How to make a documentary
This lesson plan is designed to help students learn the skills required to create compelling, in-depth and informative news documentaries.
Lesson: Editorialising is not for news
This lesson plan teaches students the importance of avoiding all forms of editorialising when producing news journalism.
Lesson: Unconscious bias and its impact on news
This lesson plan is is designed to help students recognise their own unconscious bias and find ways to avoid bias in their journalism.
Lesson: Proactive story development
This lesson plan teaches journalists how to take a proactive approach to newsgathering by investigating, anticipating, exploring, and exposing stories of significant public interest.
Lesson: Letting the pictures tell the story
Television journalists need to ensure that they are exploiting the medium to the maximum effect by letting the pictures tell the story.
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