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Media Helping Media is hosted by the Fojo Media Institute at Linnaeus University.
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: 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.
Lesson: Setting up community radio
This lesson is designed to help participants learn how to plan, set up, and manage a community radio station serving a specific audience with a unique editorial proposition.
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.
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.
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.
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: Journalism and propaganda
This lesson plan is designed to help journalists recognise the different propaganda and discover ways to deal with it when covering news.
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.
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.
Lesson: The investigative dossier
This lesson plan provides investigative journalists with a comprehensive checklist of key research areas essential for conducting a successful investigation.
Lesson: Language and style basics
A lesson plan to help students understand the importance of using the right language and style in their journalism.
Lesson: Setting up a refugee media operation
This lesson plan is designed to help students understand the essential steps for establishing a refugee media operation and dealing with legal, editorial, and operational issues.
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