Teaching Resources

Welcome to the Teaching Resources page for the One World Media Student Programme. Here you will find resources aimed at UK-based higher education courses in journalism, documentary filmmaking, and other practical media disciplines, all concerning how to produce outstanding media coverage of the developing world. Some resources may be of direct use to students as well as lecturers/tutors.

New Resource Pack

One World Media has recently produced a pack of Teaching Resources, featuring:

10 Case Study Videos in which leading journalists and filmmakers discuss how they cover international stories
A series of exercise guides for use with the videos
28 real-life dilemmas supplied by current professionals, which challenge students with key ethical issues

The resources have been put together using input from 15 experienced media professionals, including Lindsey Hilsum (Channel 4 News), Sorious Samura (Insight News TV), Mike Thomson (BBC) and Hala Jaber (Sunday Times).

If you are teaching a relevant subject and would like to receive a copy of the resources, please contact us.

Please note - we will soon be launching a microsite to host the above resources online. Check this page for updates.

Useful documents and templates

Brief style guide (pdf)

Broadcasters and other media outlets often have some kind of style guide. Here's a brief one, prepared by one of our trainers Sophie Chalk, with particular reference to making media about the developing world. What are the things to do, and things to avoid?

Advice on pre-production (pdf)

If you're going to make media in a developing country, this document has some tips on things to think about before you go - with particular relevance to those intending to film.

Sample application for secret filming (.doc)

This is the kind of document that you would have to complete if you wished to do secret filming in a report/documentary that is intended for broadcast.

Sample pre-production security questionnaire (.doc)

This kind of document might be helpful when contacting people who are based in, or who have knowledge of, the country in which you wish to film or report.

Risk Assessment Template (.doc)

This is a template for an industry-standard risk assessment, which you may need to complete for any kind of filming or reporting project - not just one in the developing world. This one is tailored for documentary/TV news being filmed overseas.

Links

Research

International Broadcasting Trust - does various reports on how the developing world is covered on TV
www.ibt.org.uk

Shrinking World report, from Media Standards Trust - looks at decline of international reporting in British Press
http://mediastandardstrust.org/publications/shrinking-world-the-decline-of-international-reporting-in-the-british-press/

The Live Aid Legacy - important report on how the British public views developing countries, and the role Live Aid played in this
http://www.eldis.org/assets/Docs/18982.html

Imaging Famine, an online project/exhibition about how famine is covered in the media - see particularly their resources page (some of the above is featured on it):
http://www.imaging-famine.org/articles.htm

A selection of resources compiled by Dóchas, an Irish association of NGOs
http://www.dochas.ie/code/resources.aspx?id=48

Articles and videos

Mass Production of Ignorance, Greg Philo
http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/VOLUME05/Mass_production_ignorance.shtml

How British TV reports famine, Peter Gill
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/19/tv-documentary-famine

Crisis of Communications, David Adam
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/jan/30/mondaymediasection.internationalaidanddevelopment

Article about the importance of context in covering humanitarian crises
http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/176/31240.html

Article about Haiti coverage, and the impact it had on what was happening on the ground
http://www.communicationforsocialchange.org/mazi-articles.php?id=416

Comment piece on developing world coverage by the Guardian's Jonathan Freedland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jun/29/rwanda-story-rooney-horror-abroad

'Oh Dearism' film by Adam Curtis, concerning trends in news reporting about the wider world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8moePxHpvok