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: 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: 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: SMART objectives for training

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...
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Lesson: Referencing, attribution, and plagiarism

This lesson plan is designed to teach students how to reference material, provide attribution, and avoid plagiarism.
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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: 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: 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 : Respecting privacy as a journalist

This lesson plan is designed to help journalists learn how to respect privacy while also being thorough investigate issues that are in the public interest.
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Lesson: False equivalence

This lesson plan is designed to help students avoid applying false equivalence and false balance to their news writing.
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Lesson: Gap analysis for training

This lesson plan is designed to help participants understand the importance of carrying out 'gap analysis when designing a training of trainers (ToT) course.
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Lesson: Dealing with algorithmic bias in news

This lesson plan is designed to help journalists recognise and deal with algorithmic bias in the news production process.
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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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