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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.

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Lesson: Fairness in journalism

Fairness in journalism is the concept of reporting news without bias or prejudice.
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Lesson: Language and style basics

A lesson plan to help students understand the importance of using the right language and style in their journalism.
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Lesson: Media project management skills

This lesson plan is designed to help journalists understand what is required to plan for news events, programmes and products.
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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 investigative dossier

This lesson plan provides investigative journalists with a comprehensive checklist of key research areas essential for conducting a successful investigation.
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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: False equivalence and false balance

This lesson plan is designed to help students avoid applying false equivalence and false balance to their news writing.
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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: 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.
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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: 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: How to interview politicians

This lesson plan is designed to help journalism students interview politicians in order to uncover answers that inform the audience.

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