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Quick Guides
Our free quick guides are short checklists designed as self-teaching aids highlighting the main points from some of our training articles. All are linked to the articles they summarise. Visit our site map for all the content in this and other sections.
Quick Guide: Including the human angle in news
Use this checklist to make sure you always add a human angle to news stories to help your audience identify with your content better.
Quick Guide: Diverse perspectives in news
Diverse perspectives are essential if journalists are to reflect the true complexity behind the news. Varied viewpoints add depth to reporting.
Quick Guide: Adding historical context to news
News coverage too often reports events without the historical context. Here is a checklist to help you explain the present by understanding the past.
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Quick Guide: Developing and handling news sources
Use this checklist to ensure you build and manage credible news sources so that your journalism remains authoritative, original, and high-quality.
Quick Guide: Avoiding self-censorship
Avoid the self-censorship trap with our quick guide checklist. Learn to identify warning signs and discover practical ways to protect your editorial integrity.
Quick Guide: Writing clearly
As a journalist, facts are vital. While accuracy provides the truth, clarity ensures your audience actually understands it.
Quick Guide: Visual storytelling
TV reporting is about letting pictures tell the story. Here is how to build a package by thinking visually first to engage your audience.
Quick Guide: Packaging for radio
Building a radio news package is about more than just reading facts; it is about using sound to paint a picture for your listener.
Quick Guide: Interviewing politicians
Learn how to master political interviews, respond to scripted answers, and ask the follow up questions that will uncover the facts the public needs to hear.
Quick Guide: Developing news sense
Good journalists develop a news sense which enables them to spot a story and understand its significance.
Quick Guide: Story leaks and tip-offs
This checklist sets out how journalists should handle story leaks and tip-offs, starting with the essential first step: verifying the source.
Quick Guide: Evidence-based reporting
Journalists should always rely on facts rather than feelings. Evidence-based reporting means your stories are built on data, documents, and witness accounts.
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