Build your own journalism training course

Journalism training in Vietnam - image by Media Helping Media
Journalism training in Vietnam – image by Media Helping Media

Editors who want to improve their news output and raise the professionalism of their staff now have access to free training materials.

Media Helping Media – which is hosted by the Fojo Media Institute – has 50+ free day-long training lessons and a dozen six-week course modules covering a wide variety of journalistic disciplines.

All the material has been volunteered by media professionals and is completely free-of-charge.

It has been developed over 25 years by experienced trainers in scores of training sessions in countries around the world

To make use of the free materials, first identify your journalists’ training needs then scroll through the list of lessons and modules.

The easiest way to see the complete list is to go to the Media Helping Media site map, choose those that meet your requirements, edit and adapt where necessary, then bring them together to create a bespoke course tailored to your needs.

If there is an area of training where you particularly need help, just let us know via our contact form and we will do our best to update Media Helping Media with the material you require.

David Brewer
The author of this piece, David Brewer, is the founder and editor of Media Helping Media which he created with the help of long-time colleague and friend Bob Eggington. David has worked as a journalist and manager in print, broadcast, and online. He was the UK editor for the launch of BBC News Online and became the managing editor soon after. Later he was appointed as the managing editor of CNN.com International EMEA where he set out the editorial proposition, hired staff, and oversaw the launch. David was the managing editor for the launch of CNN Arabic in Dubai and a launch consultant for the launch of Al Jazeera English in Qatar. David has spent many years delivering journalism training worldwide, mainly in transition and post-conflict countries. He is currently mentoring journalists and editors of refugee and exiled media via online platforms as well as helping train journalists in countries where the media is still developing.