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Getting Your Cross-Border Story Noticed
English

This is the third and final course in our CBJ series – the first one can be found here and the second one here.

This course is aimed at journalists with some reporting or investigative experience, who are interested in cross-border journalism and want to understand which challenges may come up during a CB investigation and how to deal with them. Participants will learn how to add structure to their cross-border investigations and avoid the most common pitfalls.

Learning outcomes
  • Be able to plan an outreach or post-publication strategy for their cross-border story
  • Professionally approach the distribution plan of their cross-border story
  • How to decide on target audiences
  • How to plan outreach strategies
Managing Cross-border Investigations
English

This is the second course in our CBJ series – the first one can be found here.

This course is aimed at journalists with some reporting or investigative experience, who are interested in cross-border journalism and want to understand which challenges may come up during a CB investigation and how to deal with them. Participants will learn how to add structure to their cross-border investigations and avoid the most common pitfalls.

Learning outcomes
  • Successfully plan a cross-border collaboration 
  • Solve the (interpersonal) problems that may come up during the investigation
  • Knowing which project management skills are needed for managing a cross-border investigations, including planning, meeting and communicating.
  • Which (inter)personal skills are needed for managing a cross-border investigations, including how to build trust and how to deal with conflict.
Introduction to Cross-border Journalism (CBJ)
English

This introductory course is aimed at journalists with some reporting or investigative experience, who are interested in cross-border journalism and want to be able to plan their first steps into the field. Participants will get an overview of the opportunities and challenges of cross-border journalism and acquire a professional approach to this discipline.

Learning outcomes
  • How to assess the cross-border relevance of your story
  • Find partners for your cross-border story
  • Feel confident enough to start your own cross-border investigation 
  • How to assess the cross-border relevance of your story
  • Which types of partnerships are possible within a cross-border investigation
Solutions Journalism: Reporting on Effective Responses to Society's Problems
English

Learn how to do evidence-based reporting on responses to societal problems with Solutions Journalism

In this two-hour course, the Transitions team, aided by resources from the Solutions Journalism Network, will introduce you to the practice of solutions journalism. This course consists of five lessons, several interactive exercises, a short video on how to do SoJo, and links to additional resources.

AI-Enhanced Training: From Workshop Design to Delivery
English

This course is designed for journalists, editors, and media professionals who want to strengthen their strategic use of AI in newsroom and training contexts. Rather than covering basic prompts or presentation tools, it focuses on developing critical and creative approaches to AI as a supportive assistant. Participants will learn how to integrate AI into workshop preparation and delivery while keeping their journalistic expertise at the center.

Learning outcomes
  • Master strategic use of AI to enhance your workshop preparation and delivery
  • Save time while creating more engaging educational experiences
  • Build confidence in transforming your expertise into effective learning sessions
  • Learn proven approaches for different audiences and settings
  • Develop your own system for AI-assisted workshop creation
From Newsroom to Classroom: A Journalist's Guide to Teaching
English

What You'll Learn
  • Why journalists should also be teachers.
  • How to effectively share your journalistic expertise with diverse audiences.
  • How to design a memorable workshop that leaves a lasting impression.
  • The role of "Aha moments," interactivity, and practical demonstrations.
  • How to ensure your audience retains key takeaways and stays motivated.
Course Structure:
  • ENGAGE (10 minutes): Connecting with participants and emphasizing authenticity.

  • KNOW (20 minutes): Understanding the fundamentals of working with different target groups.

  • UNDERSTAND (20 minutes): Exploring practical examples and verification activities.

  • APPLY (10 minutes): Crafting your own workshop plan.

How to Build Trust With New and Hard-to-Reach Audiences
English

The course is led by Zoltán Sipos, the editor-in-chief of Átlátszó Erdély, an investigative outlet covering the 1,2 million Hungarian minority community living in Romania. This lesson consists of a short explanation video, step-by-step instructions on how to report and how to build trust, and interactive exercises to test your newly acquired skills. 

How to Report About Disinformation
English

In this 30-minute mini-course, you will learn how journalists can become news literacy educators in a step-by-step guide.

In this 30-minute mini-course, you will learn how journalists can become news literacy educators in a step-by-step guide. In this 30-minute mini-course, you will learn how journalists can become news literacy educators in a step-by-step guide.

Learn to Fact Check Like a Pro
English

A fact-checking guide condensed into a 30-minutes interactive exercise

In this 30-minute mini-course, you will be introduced to a fact-checking process by expert Fergus Bell. This lesson consists of a short explanation video, a step-by-step guide on how to structure a fact-checking process, and an interactive exercise to test your fact-checking skills and knowledge. 

Learn to Utilize AI for Fact Checking and Debunking
English

In this 45-minute course you will learn about:

  • The basic principles on which Large Language Models (LLM) such as ChatGPT operate 

  • Affordances and limitations of using LLMs for various tasks

  • AI-prompting hacks to provide the best ChatGPT outcomes

  • Ways how to use AI to save time in different steps of the factchecking process. 

There are eight mini-lessons, some with quizzes or other exercises to help you check what you have learned. There is also an extra lesson in which you can familiarize yourself with how to access and navigate ChatGPT, if needed. 

Creating a Solutions Journalism Culture for Your Newsroom
English

This course intends to expand the capacity of news organizations to cover stories from a solutions angle by (1) improving understanding of the benefits and impacts of solutions journalism throughout the newsroom and (2) providing techniques for shifting the newsroom culture to a more solutions-oriented one.

Learning outcomes
  • How to articulate the benefits and value of solutions journalism.
  • How solutions coverage can address some of contemporary journalism’s problem areas, such as news avoidance and lack of audience engagement.
  • Some specific techniques for introducing solutions approaches to the newsroom routine, including beat coverage.
  • How to address concerns or resistance to adding solutions coverage to the news mix.

A Practical Approach To Effective Participatory/Engagement Journalism
English

This course is designed for journalists who want to build stronger connections with their communities by exploring the core principles of participatory journalism. No special background is required beyond an interest in community engagement, and participants will gain practical tools and approaches to put these ideas into practice in their daily work.

Learning outcomes
  • Identify principles and practices of participatory/engaged journalism.
  • Recognize effective techniques for some of those key practices, including planning and running events, conducting community listening, engaging in conversation with community members, and assessing community information needs.
  • Implement a plan for effectively incorporating a participatory/engagement program into a news organization.
Navigating Institutional Pressures & Strategic Crisis Communication
English

Investigating Modern Threats: A Journalist's Guide to Digital Age Investigations

Enable journalists to recognize, prepare for, and strategically respond to institutional pressures while maintaining journalistic integrity and turning challenges into opportunities for greater public impact.

Learning outcomes
  • Strategic communication techniques that turn institutional pressure into amplification opportunities for your reporting
  • Why attacks often signal journalistic success and how to leverage that validation for greater public impact
  • Crisis response protocols that can be implemented immediately in any newsroom environment
  • Real-world case studies showing how transparency and strategic communication can neutralize most attacks
  • What you can do to decrease the Influence of cognitive bias
  • Security-enhancing tools can be applied right away in any newsroom setting
Investigating Russia’s Sanctions Evasion Networks
English

Investigating Modern Threats: A Journalist's Guide to Digital Age Investigations

The course aims to equip investigative journalists and researchers with practical skills and methodologies to uncover, structure, and analyze evidence of sanctions evasion by Russia. Participants will learn how to apply OSINT tools, critical thinking, and structured workflows to trace hidden networks, connect fragmented data, and transform findings into impactful stories and reports that can influence policy, accountability, and public awareness.

Learning outcomes
  • Where to find information about weapon components of foreign origin and how to use it in investigations.
  • How to identify suppliers of the Russian Federation using free and accessible sources.
  • How to turn scattered online clues into a clear, structured investigation.
  • How to validate your findings and separate fact from misinformation.
  • How to translate technical evidence into stories and reports that can influence policy and public opinion.

Detecting Election Interference
English

Investigating Modern Threats: A Journalist's Guide to Digital Age Investigations

This course is designed for investigative journalists, fact-checkers, digital media professionals, and civil society researchers who need practical skills to detect and document coordinated manipulation campaigns on social media platforms, particularly during election periods.

Learning outcomes
  • How to find political hashtags on TikTok without getting lost in the algorithm (10 minutes on your phone)
  • How to set up a free Apify account and run your first data extraction (no coding required)
  • What "coordinated behavior" actually looks like in a spreadsheet (spoiler: it's often obvious)
  • How to document what you find so others can verify it
  • Why election authorities miss this stuff (they're looking at TV ads while campaigns happen on TikTok)
  • Real examples from Romania where this method revealed massive hidden campaigns
Научете како да користите AI за проверка на факти и разобличување
Macedonian

Добре дојдовте на курсот на Transitions за користење на AI за помош во процесите на проверка на факти и разобличување на дезинформации!

Во овој 45-минутен курс ќе научите за:

  • Основните начела врз кои функционираат Големите јазични модели (LLMS) како ChatGPT

  • Можностите и ограничувањата на користење LLMs за различни задачи

  • Трикови за креирање на команди за AI за да добиете најдобри резултати од ChatGPT

  • Начини како да користите AI за заштеда на време во различните чекори на процесот на проверка на факти.

Курсот вклучува осум мини-лекции, од кои некои содржат квизови или други вежби за да ви помогнат да проверите што сте научиле. Има и дополнителна лекција во која можете да се запознаете со пристапот и навигацијата во ChatGPT, доколку е потребно.

Подготвени? Ајде да започнеме!

Како да изградите доверба со нова и тешко достапна публика
Macedonian

Добре дојдовте на мини-курсот Transitions за градење доверба со нова и тешко достапна публика! Во овој мини-курс од 30 минути, ќе се запознаете со неколку идеи, совети и трикови за тоа како да известувате во длабоко поделена и недоверлива заедница, како да изградите доверба со вашите читатели и како да допрете до публиката, како да се изгради доверба со нова и тешко достапна публика, а не со редовни потрошувачи на квалитетни медиуми.

Të mësojmë si të përdorim AI për verifikimin e fakteve dhe demaskimin e dezinformimit
Albanian

Mirë se erdhe në kursin e Transitions për përdorimin e AI në proceset e verifikimit të fakteve dhe hedhjes poshtë të dezinformatave!

Në këtë kurs 45-minutësh do të mësojmë:

  • Parimet bazë mbi të cilat funksionojnë Modelet e Mëdha Gjuhësore (LLM) si ChatGPT

  • Avantazhet dhe kufizimet e përdorimit të LLM-ve për veprime të ndryshme

  • Këshilla dhe metoda për dhënien e komandave për të arritur rezultatet më të mira nga ChatGPT

  • Mënyra se si ta përdorim AI për të kursyer kohë gjatë hapave të ndryshme të procesit të verifikimit të fakteve.

Kursi përfshin tetë mini-leksione, disa prej të cilave kanë kuize ose ushtrime të tjera për të kuptuar se çfarë kemi mësuar deri në atë pikë.  Nëse është e nevojshme kemi edhe një leksion shtesë ku mund të njihemi me aksesin dhe navigimin në ChatGPT.

Gati?  Le të fillojmë!

Si ta fitojmë besimin e audiencave të reja që janë të vështira për t'u arritur
Albanian

Mirë se erdhe në kursin e Tranzicionit për fitimin e besimit të audiencave të reja që janë të vështira për t'u arritur!  Gjatë këtij kursi të shkurtër 30-minutësh, do të njihemi me disa ide dhe këshilla se si të raportojmë mbi një komunitet thellësisht të ndarë dhe mosbesues, si të fitojmë besimin e lexuesit, si të depërtojmë tek audiencat e reja, dhe si të fitojmë besimin e këtyre audiencave të reja që janë të vështira për t'u arritur dhe që nuk janë konsumatorë të rregullt të mediave cilësore.

Naučite koristiti AI za provjeru činjenica i razotkrivanje dezinformacija
BCMS

Dobro došli na kurs Transitionsa o korištenju AI-ja za pomoć u procesima provjere činjenica i razotkrivanja dezinformacija!

U ovom 45-minutnom kursu naučit ćete:

  • Osnovne principe na kojima funkcioniraju veliki jezički modeli (large language models, LLM) poput ChatGPT-a

  • Mogućnosti i ograničenja korištenja LLM-ova za različite zadatke

  • Trikove za oblikovanje upita za AI kako biste dobili najbolje rezultate od ChatGPT-a

  • Mačine kako koristiti AI za uštedu vremena u različitim koracima procesa provjere činjenica

Kurs uključuje osam mini-lekcija, od kojih neke sadržavaju kvizove ili druge vježbe koje će vam pomoći da provjerite šta ste naučili. Tu je i dodatna lekcija u kojoj se možete upoznati s pristupom i navigacijom u ChatGPT-u, ako je potrebno.

Spremni? Krenimo!

Kako izgraditi povjerenje s novom i teško dostupnom publikom
BCMS

Dobro došli na mini-kurs Transitionsa o izgradnji povjerenja s novom i teško dostupnom publikom! U ovom 30-minutnom mini-kursu ćete se upoznati s nekoliko ideja, savjeta i trikova o tome kako izvještavati u duboko podijeljenoj i nepovjerljivoj zajednici, kako izgraditi povjerenje kod svojih čitalaca, kako komunicirati s publikom i izgraditi povjerenje kod nove i teško dostupne publike koja kvalitetne medije ne koristi redovno.

Kurs vodi Zoltán Sipos, glavni urednik Átlátszó Erdélyja, istraživačkog medija koji pokriva 1.2 miliona pripadnika mađarske manjinske zajednice koja živi u Rumuniji. Ova lekcija se sastoji od kratkog videa s objašnjenjem, uputstava za izvještavanje i izgradnju povjerenja korak po korak, te interaktivnih vježbi za testiranje vaših novostečenih vještina. Do kraja ovog kursa moći ćete:

  1. upoznati specifične probleme s kojima se vaša publika/zajednica suočava;

  2. znati kako prilagoditi svoj sadržaj na način koji zadovoljava potrebe vaše zajednice;

  3. pronaći teme/ideje za priče koje spajaju ljude;

  4. steći vještine izvještavanja u zajednici koja ne vjeruje medijima;

  5. protumačiti povratne informacije da biste znali jeste li na pravom putu.

Od redakcije do učionice: Novinarski vodič za podučavanje
Serbian

Danas ćete naučiti:
  • Zašto bi novinari trebalo da budu i nastavnici.
  • Kako efikasno podeliti svoje novinarsko znanje sa različitim publikama.
  • Kako dizajnirati nezaboravnu radionicu koja ostavlja trajan utisak.
  • Uloga „trenutaka otkrovenja“, interaktivnosti i praktičnih demonstracija.
  • Kako osigurati da vaša publika zapamti ključne poruke i ostane motivisana.
Struktura kursa:
  • OSTVARITE KONTAKT (10 minuta): Povezivanje sa učesnicima i naglašavanje autentičnosti.

  • UPOZNAJTE (20 minuta): Razumevanje osnova rada sa različitim ciljnim grupama.

  • PRIPREMITE SE (20 minuta): Istraživanje praktičnih primera i aktivnosti za proveru.

  • PRIMENITE (10 minuta): Kreativno osmišljavanje sopstvenog plana radionice.

Obuka uz podršku veštačke inteligencije: Od dizajna radionice do realizacije
Serbian

Ovaj kurs je namenjen novinarima, urednicima i medijskim profesionalcima koji žele da unaprede svoje strateško korišćenje veštačke inteligencije u redakcijskom i trenerskom kontekstu. Umesto osnovnih komandi ili prezentacionih alata, fokus je na razvijanju kritičkog i kreativnog pristupa AI-ju kao podršci. Učesnici će naučiti kako da integrišu AI u pripremu i realizaciju radionica, zadržavajući svoje novinarsko znanje i ekspertizu u centru procesa.

Learning outcomes
  • Strateški koristite veštačku inteligenciju za unapređenje pripreme i izvođenja radionica
  • Uštedite vreme dok kreirate zanimljivija edukativna iskustva
  • Steknete samopouzdanje u prenošenju svog znanja kroz efektivne obuke
  • Primetite i primenite proverene pristupe za različite publike i okruženja
  • Razvijete sopstveni sistem za kreiranje radionica uz pomoć veštačke inteligencije