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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: Investigating documents
Investigative journalists need to learn how to interrogate official documents in order to find essential facts and then inform the audience.
Lesson: Accuracy in journalism
This free lesson plan is designed to help journalism students learn how to gather, assemble, and publish or broadcast information that has been thoroughly checked to ensure it is factual and accurate.
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.
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.
Lesson: How to spot a news story
This lesson plan is designed to help students recognise how to spot a news story and develop it so that it informs the 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: 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: The use of adjectives and adverbs in journalism
When it comes to writing news stories adjectives and adverbs should be avoided wherever possible.
Lesson: How to interview politicians
This lesson plan is designed to help journalism students interview politicians in order to uncover answers that inform the audience.
Lesson: Fact-checking and adding context
This lesson plan is designed to teach students how to fact-check then add context so that the information produced in a news report is accurate and complete.
Lesson: Planning a journalistic investigation
A lesson plan to help journalists navigate the challenges of complex investigative reporting.
Lesson: Journalism, trauma, and stress
This lesson plan is designed to help journalists recognise and manage trauma and stress in the course of their work.
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