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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.
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Lesson: Covering climate change

This lesson plan is designed to equip journalists with the knowledge and skills necessary to report accurately and ethically on climate change.
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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: 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: Fairness in journalism

Fairness in journalism is the concept of reporting news without bias or prejudice.
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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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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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