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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. 
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Lesson: Remote interviewing for journalists

This lesson plan is designed to equip journalists with the strategic skills needed to navigate the challenges and maximise the advantages of remote interviewing.
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Lesson: Brand values in news

This lesson plan is designed to help participants understand the importance of brand values in news and how they apply to journalists..
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Lesson: Journalism and the public interest

A lesson plan to help students understand the difference between 'public interest' journalism and news that merely entertains.
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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.
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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: 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.
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Lesson: Journalism, trauma, and stress

This lesson plan is designed to help journalists recognise and manage trauma and stress in the course of their work. 
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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: 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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Lesson: Constructing a radio news package

A lesson plan to help teach students how to create a news package for radio.
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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. 
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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: Systems thinking for journalists

This journalism lesson plan teaches systems thinking to help students produce more comprehensive and robust news reports
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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.
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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: Understanding interviewees

This lesson plan looks at why some people are willing to talk to an investigative journalist and why some won't.
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Lesson: What makes a news story

This lesson plan is designed to help journalists understand the sources of news stories and be able to order them in terms of their relevance to the audience.
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Lesson: Making documentaries for radio

This lesson plan sets out the steps required to make informative long-form news and current affairs documentaries for radio.
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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: Beyond basic fact-checking

Journalists who have mastered basic fact-checking skills need to develop systems for dealing with all forms of fake news.
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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.
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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.