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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: Using the right words
This lesson plan is designed to teach students the power of words and how to use them when writing a piece of journalism.
Lesson: Audience research and segmentation
This lesson plan is designed to help participants learn how to carry out audience research in order to better understand the needs of the target audience.
Lesson: SMART objectives for training
This lesson plan is designed to teach how to apply SMART objectives to training programmes for journalists and media managers.
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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: Referencing, attribution, and plagiarism
This lesson plan is designed to teach students how to reference material, provide attribution, and avoid plagiarism.
Lesson: Essential elements of a news story
This lesson plan helps students prioritise key news elements, ensuring readers grasp essential facts even if they only engage with the first few lines of a story.
Lesson: What makes a news story
This lesson plan is designed to help journalists understand the sources of news stories and be able to order them in terms of their relevance to the audience.
Lesson: The questions every journalist should ask
This lesson plan teaches students about the six essential questions - What? Why? When? How? Where? and Who?
Lesson: How to spot a news story
This lesson plan is designed to help students recognise how to spot a news story and develop it so that it informs the audience.
Lesson: Interviewing ‘off the record’
This lesson plan is designed to help journalists understand the purpose, the benefits, and the risks of ‘off the record’ interviews.
Lesson: Planning tips for effective election coverage
A lesson outline for trainers to teach students how to plan election coverage.
Lesson: Investigating Documents
Investigative journalists need to learn how to interrogate official documents in order to find essential facts and then inform the audience.
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