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Exercise: Understanding unconscious bias

This exercise is designed to help journalists understand how unconscious bias can undermine journalistic integrity and distort how news is covered. 
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Exercise: Planning a breaking news TV package

Reporting breaking TV news is a high-pressure race against the clock. You must balance real-time events with limited time for fact-checking and sourcing interviews.
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Exercise: Clichés, jargon & journalese

Journalists need to recognise and then avoid using journalese, jargon, and clichés. Their writing must be clear, easy to understand, and informative. This exercise is designed to help spot all three.
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Exercise: The active and passive voices in news

Many news stories are about action. This exercise looks at how journalist use the active voice to capture that action in their writing and seize the attention of the audience. 
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Exercise: Packaging for radio news

This exercise sets out the basics for creating a news package for radio. It’s been created for those starting out in radio journalism.
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Exercise: Understanding post-truth in journalism

For journalists, post-truth represents a critical challenge to our core mission of informing the public with accurate, verified information. This exercise deals with some...
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Exercise: Questions every journalist should ask

There are six questions that a journalists should consider asking. They are What? Why? When? How? Where? and Who? This exercise considers their use in journalism.
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Exercise: Referencing, attribution, and plagiarism

Original journalism often begins by finding a unique, unexplored angle within existing public information or the reporting of others. This exercise looks at what a journalist should do in those situations.

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Workshop: Fact checking and adding context

Journalism is about far more than simply gathering information then passing it on. An essential part of the editorial process is to add context in order to offer a deeper understanding.

Tool: Multiplatform Authoring (MPA)

This multiplatform authoring (MPA) tool enables journalists to write a news story once and publish it on multiple digital platforms. It helps ensure editorial consistency across all the devices the news organisation’s audience uses.

Exercise: Crime reporting for beginners

Journalists reporting on crime must balance the public’s right to know with ethical responsibilities, ensuring accuracy, fairness, and sensitivity while avoiding sensationalism and prejudice.