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Community News Reporting

Behind the Headlines

Our Community News Reporting programme, funded by Ofcom, helps secondary-aged students develop their voice, strengthen critical thinking, and build resilience against misinformation and disinformation. Students gain practical experience in spotting and producing reliable journalism, while creating their own news stories rooted in their local communities.

Our workshops are planned and delivered by qualified secondary school teachers. Workshops are differentiated, where necessary and possible, to cater for students from Key Stages 3 - 5 and SEN students.

The project is free for qualifying schools in: London (Islington, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Newham and Barking and Dagenham), Greater Manchester, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford.

Project details

Ages: 11 - 18
Minimum students: 18
Maximum students: 30, with potential to work with more than one class on separate days
Delivery method: In-school workshops (Greater Manchester) or onsite at The Guardian’s Education Centre (London schools only)
Timing: Full-day workshop (10 - 2pm in London, more flexibility in Gtr Manchester)
Cost: Free to qualifying schools

How it works
Participating schools will enjoy:
  • A full-day, in-person news and media literacy workshop for students, delivered by our teaching team

  • Media literacy training for participating teachers and colleagues

  • Post-workshop editorial check-in and Q&A session with a working journalist

  • Access to our media literacy classroom resources and toolkit

  • Opportunity for students’ work to be published on our website

  • An end-of-project showcase event to celebrate and share student work

  • What's expected from schools
  • Attendance at a compulsory pre-workshop teacher training session (virtual)

  • Completion of short teacher and student evaluations before, during and after the project

  • Support for students in producing news reports using our resources after the workshop

  • Publishing a selection of student work in school or the local community, with our guidance

  • Sharing final student reports with our team and Ofcom

  • On-site workshops

    Not eligible for the community news reporting programme? We deliver free interactive workshops for secondary schools onsite at our Education Centre.

    Downloadable resources

    Fill in a short form to access news media resources, teaching ideas, activities and display materials plus useful information about the Guardian and journalism.

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