Lessons

In this lesson students discover why maintaining detailed records of news stories is essential for accuracy and covering news in depth.

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

This lesson plan is designed to teach students how to carry out an interview in a way that reveals new and important information.

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.

Developing a news sense in order to spot a story's importance to the audience.

This lesson plan is designed to help journalists understand the importance of applying editorial ethics to their newsgathering and news production.

When it comes to writing news stories adjectives and adverbs should be avoided wherever possible.

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

A lesson plan is designed to help trainers teach students how to seek out new angles on a breaking, developing or running news story.

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

This lesson plan teaches trainers how to write and apply SMART objectives to training programmes created for journalists and media managers. It's based on the article SMART objectives for media training which we recommend trainers read before adapting this lesson plan for your own purposes. Lesson...

This lesson plan provides a comprehensive guide to the essential skill of pitching a news story idea to an editor.