Media Helping Media

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Media Helping Media (MHM) offers free training resources for journalists in areas where the media is still developing. The modules have been written by media professionals and media trainers and donated free-of-charge.

All Mastodon posts are by David Brewer, the founder and editor of MHM. https://mediahelpingmedia.org/

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Media Helping Media2d ago

For #journalism #trainers, a free one-day lesson outline on the importance of attribution in #news. Download, adapt and use.

https://mediahelpingmedia.org/lessons/lesson-plan-avoiding-plagiarism/

Media Helping Media2d ago
A #journalist’s guide to remote interviews: covering research, identity verification, recording consent, and technical stability for better #news #reporting.
https://mediahelpingmedia.org/quick-guides/conducting-interviews-remotely/
Media Helping Media2d ago
Learn how to carry out effective remote #news interviews using video, email, and phone. Improve your digital #journalism skills with these practical techniques.
https://mediahelpingmedia.org/basics/how-to-carry-out-an-interview-remotely/
Media Helping Media2d ago
Learn about attribution in #news #journalism with our best-practice checklist. Find out how to credit sources, avoid plagiarism, and maintain journalistic integrity to build trust with your audience.
https://mediahelpingmedia.org/quick-guides/attribution-in-journalism/
Media Helping Media2d ago
#Journalists, learn the essential rules of referencing and attribution. Avoid plagiarism and build trust in your #journalism by acknowledging your #news sources.
https://mediahelpingmedia.org/basics/referencing-attribution-and-plagiarism/
Show threadMedia Helping Media3d ago
@Rickd6 @dtm Hi Rick, I am not talking about false equivalence or false balance. Reporters should dig for facts from multiple sources and diverse perspectives, and that will involve attribution which is essential.
https://mediahelpingmedia.org/advanced/false-equivalence-and-false-balance/
False equivalence and false balance - Media Helping Media

Journalists can sometimes present an inaccurate or false version of events by trying too hard to 'balance' a story or incorrectly treating elements of a story as being roughly equal.

Media Helping Media - FREE TRAINING RESOURCES FOR JOURNALISTS AND MANAAGERS
Show threadMedia Helping Media3d ago
@dtm I don't think we disagree. Once subjective opinions and emotions enter the mix facts can become distorted. I have just updated a scenario I wrote six years ago about where I totally messed up reporting live to the point where "this is what I saw" became polluted with my own biases and ended up with me broadcasting misinformation. What I learnt was to just do my job and report rather than make stuff up because it fitted my own personal feelings. https://mediahelpingmedia.org/scenarios/emotional-assumptions-scenario/
Emotional assumptions – scenario - Media Helping Media

In this scenario a journalist lets their own emotional assumptions colour their news judgement resulting in misinformation.

Media Helping Media - FREE TRAINING RESOURCES FOR JOURNALISTS AND MANAAGERS
Media Helping Media3d ago

#Journalists need to tell people, as plainly as possible, what is happening in the world. Every #news story should be fact-based. We must never add our own opinion. Download, adapt, and use our free workshop.

https://mediahelpingmedia.org/workshops/workshop-editorialising-is-not-for-news/

#media #journalism #disinformation #fakenews

Media Helping Media3d ago
All the free training material on Media Helping Media is designed to encourage #journalists to produce accurate, fact-based #journalism that is free from #editorialising, personal opinions, or #bias. #news #media
https://mediahelpingmedia.org/basics/editorialising-is-not-for-news/
Show threadMedia Helping Media3d ago
@dtm I think you made an excellent point in an earlier post when you wrote about 'context'. We, as journalists, gather facts, check them, then add context so that the audience can draw their own conclusions. If news journalists soil the mix with their own subjective views then we are altering the picture. Our job is not to lead people to think in a certain way. There are so many angles to this discussion. It's all about impartiality. .
https://mediahelpingmedia.org/impartiality/
Impartiality - Media Helping Media

Media Helping Media - FREE TRAINING RESOURCES FOR JOURNALISTS AND MANAAGERS