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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: Developing and applying news sense
Developing a news sense in order to spot a story's importance to the audience.
Lesson: The questions every journalist should ask
This lesson plan teaches students about the six essential questions - What? Why? When? How? Where? and Who?
Lesson: The importance of editorial ethics
This lesson plan is designed to help journalists understand the importance of applying editorial ethics to their newsgathering and news production.
Lesson: Journalism and the public interest
A lesson plan to help students understand the difference between 'public interest' journalism and news that merely entertains.
Lesson: Systems thinking for journalists
This journalism lesson plan teaches systems thinking to help students produce more comprehensive and robust news reports
Lesson: Audience research and segmentation
This lesson plan is designed to help participants learn how to carry out audience research in order to better understand the needs of the target audience.
Lesson: Creating a converged news operation
This lesson plan is designed to help senior media managers understand and implement a converge newsroom strategy.
Lesson: Gender equality in news production
A lesson plan is designed to help journalists understand the need to avoid stereotypes in their news writing.
Lesson: Interviewing ‘off the record’
This lesson plan is designed to help journalists understand the purpose, the benefits, and the risks of ‘off the record’ interviews.
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.
Lesson: AI and investigative journalism
This lesson plan sets out how journalists can use artificial intelligence (AI) in investigative journalism.
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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