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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.

Lesson: How to develop a story

This lesson plan is designed to teach students how to find and assess important news angles for a breaking news story.

Lesson: Clarity is as important as accuracy

A lesson plan designed to help students understand the importance of clarity in their writing so that they produce news articles that the reader can understand.

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. 

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: 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.

Lesson: Referencing, attribution, and plagiarism

This lesson plan is designed to teach students how to reference material, provide attribution, and avoid plagiarism.

Lesson: The questions every journalist should ask

This lesson plan teaches students about the six essential questions - What? Why? When? How? Where? and Who?

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What it takes to be a media trainer

Media trainers must have recent, valid experience of all they teach. They will not earn the respect of course participants if they can't relate to the issues they face.