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A collection of resources featuring journalists and presenters giving their top tips to help you produce your own news reports.

Telling My Story: Race, Culture and Identity. collection

A series of videos exploring what race, culture and identity means to young people in the UK.

Telling My Story: Race, Culture and Identity

What makes a great story?

Online storytelling tips from award-winning YouTuber, Jessica Kellgren-Fozard. video

Award-winning YouTuber, Jessica Kellgren-Fozard tells us a how she honed her craft and what the secret is to being a great online storyteller.

Online storytelling tips from award-winning YouTuber, Jessica Kellgren-Fozard

Tips on storytelling and making a documentary from Mim Shaikh. video

Mim shares his experiences and advice about how he told his story and made a documentary.

Tips on storytelling and making a documentary from Mim Shaikh

Storytelling in video games with Rhianna Pratchett. video

Rhianna Pratchett explains exactly what it takes to tell a good video game story and what you need to do to get started.

Storytelling in video games with Rhianna Pratchett

Observational storytelling tips from comic Suzi Ruffell. video

Acclaimed comic Suzi Ruffell explains how she's been delighting audiences with her own brand of observational storytelling for over a decade.

Observational storytelling tips from comic Suzi Ruffell

Suzi Ruffell – “I didn’t know I was a writer and now I write sell out shows” document

Award-winning comedian Suzi Ruffell wasn’t great at school, has dyslexia and was told by a teacher that she wouldn’t make a career out of just chatting. In this article she offers storytelling tips to young writers.

Suzi Ruffell – “I didn’t know I was a writer and now I write sell out shows”

More resources

Finding news tips with Steph McGovern. video

Journalist and presenter Steph McGovern delivers a masterclass on how to find news stories.

Finding news tips with Steph McGovern

Making news for radio and podcast with Ngunan Adamu. video

Making a report for radio or a podcast isn’t quite the same as making something for TV or the internet.

Making news for radio and podcast with Ngunan Adamu

Tips from sporting presenter Jessica Creighton. video

Covering sports stories means more than just knowing the rules of the game and the names of the players.

Tips from sporting presenter Jessica Creighton

News presenting tips with Roger Johnson. video

Insights into news presenting from Roger Johnson, presenter of the 鶹Լ regional news programme North West Tonight and 鶹Լ Breakfast at the weekend.

News presenting tips with Roger Johnson

Reporting the weather with Ben Rich. video

Watch the video, download the guide to reporting the weather, and then have a go at making your own weather forecasts.

Reporting the weather with Ben Rich

Top tips for filming on a smartphone. video

Film-makers are producing documentaries and feature films on smartphones, and you can do the same

Top tips for filming on a smartphone

How to conduct an interview. video

Two students - Toni and Reneee - get advice from national news journalist Kimberly Dadds, before interviewing Bonita Norris, who is one of the youngest people in the UK to have climbed Mount Everest.

How to conduct an interview

鶹Լ L.A.B Scotland - How to make your own content. collection

A collection of short films for 11-18 year-olds on content creation; from how to record and structure a podcast, to how to film an interview on a phone.

鶹Լ L.A.B Scotland - How to make your own content