Journalists and newsrooms
Journalists and newsrooms
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Lie Detectors cooperates with newsrooms
How we do it
Structure and content:
Professional journalists and media experts teach 90-minute classroom sessions in the presence of a teacher and provide follow-up “News Challenge” materials for use in the classroom. Sessions consist of two parts: in the first half, students discuss disinformation and acquire journalistic tools to decode fakes. A second half uses interactive games to explore journalistic pressures and news agendas and how these may present partial picture of reality. Material for homework or follow-up sessions – where requested – allows children to develop deeper a understanding of storytelling and perspective. All journalists have been trained to discuss their profession and its challenges honestly and transparently. Services offered to classrooms are free of charge and aim to reach a broad and diverse range of schools in Europe. Training for teachers, teacher-trainers and school managers follows the award-winning approach of hands-on, inclusive training by journalists, frank discussion and resources for follow-up.
Join us
We train journalists to teach media literacy. Join us to make a difference.
Citizens urgently need media literacy skills to make sense of individualised news feeds and social media steered by algorithms. Who better to help than professional journalists? Lie Detectors trains selected professional journalists, media experts and newsrooms to hand basic journalistic tools to students and teachers with an award-winning approach.
Apply now to join our community (this needs to be a link to the list of experts).
We have trained more than 500 journalists in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Poland and Switzerland.
Our Work
How our training works:
Workshops for journalists and newsrooms take a day and are free of charge. They equip journalists with an award-winning interactive approach to teaching media literacy for different age groups and scripts for each training module.
Why a script?
Lie Detectors’ visits combine scripted elements with journalists’ own input at a ratio of 2:1, allowing for the authentic perspective of working journalists as well as key impactful elements of media education in a reliable and measurable way. (teachers: transversal)
What happens after training:
Once trained, we match you with schools in your area and visits at least six times per year. We organise city-level meetups and webinars for our community. Highly-engaged journalists may be offered additional workshops on teacher-focused modules.
What journalists say about their work with classrooms
Our ethics
Lie Detectors subscribes to professional codes of journalism ethics, as described by the International federation of Journalists and the Ethical Journalism Network. All journalists participating in the Lie Detectors project commit to a set of ethical guidelines and are bound by a cooperation agreement to ensure standards of non-partisanship, courtesy, an inclusive and age-relevant approach, as well as standards of punctuality and equal delivery of classroom visits.
Our selection criteria are strict and we are sorry we cannot include journalists and media experts who do paid work for political or commercial non-journalistic entities.
