Teaching Journalism

This site called Statistics Every Writer Should Know provides a simple guide to understanding basic statistics for journalists who might not know math. It's put together by Robert Niles, a journalist and website editor in California. It includes clear, simple explanations, examples and quizzes to help journalists and journalism students understand such things as mean, median, margins of error and interpreting statistics.

Roy Peter Clark is a senior scholar with the Poynter Insitute for Media Studies. In 2002 he wrote a list of tips for journalism educators which can be found at the site called No Train, No Gain.

Two university professors in Minnesota are using a graphically-sophisticated computer game, produced by a Canadian gaming company, in which the students transform the medieval wizards and rogues into news editors, reporters, and other modern characters. They role play their way through a major news event.

No Train, No Gain is a website initiated by a Freedom Forum report in 1993 in which newsroom trainers provide a huge range of resources for newsroom trainers which could be useful to journalism educators. The site offers training tips and handouts on everything from writing and editing, to numeracy and newsroom management.