Below are instructional tips and ideas relating to the "Practicing Quality Journalism" lesson. This page is divided into "Implementation strategies," "Teacher tips" and "Outside links."

Implementation strategies

This lesson works best with students working individually or with a partner. Consider frontloading this lesson with a short reflection about the rules and policies that students think journalists and news organizations should follow.

For discussing quality journalism:

• Classroom discussion prompts:
• Invite a journalist to your classroom to discuss their experiences with the standards of quality journalism
• Explore and discuss what to do in hypothetical reporting scenarios

For evaluating quality journalism:

• Rank a collection of recent news stories

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Teacher tips - coming soon!

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Outside links

An excellent way to stay current on debates about journalism standards is by following the work of journalism scholars, media critics and analysts, and ombudsmen and public editors.

• Pew Research Center / Journalism & Media.
• Poynter Institute / Ethics & Trust.
• American Press Institute Accountability and Fact-Checking Project.
• Reliable Sources with Brian Stelter, CNN’s weekly media criticism program.