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Learning Overview
Learning Objective
• To evaluate how facts and opinions are selected and framed to persuade, and to assess the role of a free press in holding power to account.
Learning Focus
• Distinguish reporting, comment and spin across professional journalism and organisational communications.
• Examine how political and corporate press operations shape stories, and why an independent press matters for scrutiny.
• Test credibility against evidence, expertise and transparency.
Success Criteria
• I know that experts and credible sources rely on evidence and research.
• I can check who created information, what its purpose is, and whether it’s based on fact or opinion.
• I can choose to access news from journalists working in the public interest.
Learning Domain
• Domain 1 - Being Informed.