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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: Covering climate change
Reporting on climate change is a major challenge for journalists. The topic is topical, controversial, and rooted in complex scientific research.
Lesson: Systems thinking for journalists
This journalism lesson plan teaches systems thinking to help students produce more comprehensive and robust news reports
Lesson: Constructing a TV news package
A lesson plan to help students create a simple TV news package using their skills in reporting, filming, and editing, letting the pictures tell the story.
Lesson: Planning a journalistic investigation
A lesson plan to help journalists navigate the challenges of complex investigative reporting.
Lesson: Preparing for and carrying out an interview
This lesson plan is designed to teach students how to carry out an interview in a way that reveals new and important information.
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: Making documentaries for radio
This lesson plan sets out the steps required to make informative long-form news and current affairs documentaries for radio.
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: 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: 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.
Lesson: Planning tips for effective election coverage
A lesson outline for trainers to teach students how to plan election coverage.
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.
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