Media Helping Media

This section contains modules covering the basics for those starting off in a career in journalism. It covers what makes news, how to write a story intro and script, interviewing tips,  fact checking, the public interest test and whether your journalism passes the 'who says' test.

Training modules for those wanting to use social media for networking, news gathering and news dissemination. Tips on how to use using social media aggregators and curation tools and how to participate in the global conversation in a way that engages users and uncovers facts.

This section contains modules covering investigative journalism. Many have been written by journalism trainer and investigative journalist Don Ray and cover how to understand an interview, read between the lines in complex documents and how to carry out a piece of investigative journalism.

This section is all about journalistic integrity. It contains modules covering the every day ethical issues that journalists face in the course of their work. We look at what impartiality, integrity, fairness, taste and decency, offence, privacy, and accuracy mean to journalists.

These training resources have been grouped in this section because they may be of particular use to journalists working in exile. They are written either by journalists forced to work outside their own countries or by those who offer journalism and media strategy training to exiled media.

This section contains modules covering advanced journalism training including how to avoid being manipulated, understanding the public service remit, some tips on how to run an effective news meeting and ensure you get the best out of your staff, and setting news priorities.

This section covers the basics of online journalism, how to manage a news website, updating the site's home page, creating must-click content, attracting people to your site, encouraging them to stay and driving them deeper, adding value and multiplatform authoring .

A collection of training modules for those who want to learn how to train others. The modules in this trainers of trainers (TOT) category cover the training cycle of research, design, delivery and evaluation. They also cover how people learn and include some tools that you can use in your training.

This section contains modules covering media management issues. It includes topics such as hiring staff and investing in them through training, setting objectives, establishing and managing a news gathering department and running a news agency.

This section contains modules covering how to set up a converged newsroom delivering content to multiple devices, how to create a forward planning department producing original journalism, creating a social media strategy, going hyperlocal and running a media business.

A new section that will contain articles on the commercial side of setting up an independent media organisation. If you have any articles you would like to contribute, please contact us so that we can talk through the idea. The aim is to help media organisations become independently financially sustainable.

This section of the site contains training modules for those involved in international media development. We look at media assistance and how to decide who to help, how media development could improve, and some tips for international media trainers working in post-conflict and transition countries.

The author, T.P. Mishra (left) set up a media operation in the Bhutanese refugee camps in Nepal. He is the author of ‘Becoming a Journalist in Exile’ is putting together a number of guides for how refugee communities can set up and operate successful news organisations.

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