Teaching Radio Journalists to Report on HIV: A Manual for Trainers

This manual consists of lesson plans, exercises, and a training agenda developed by Internews Networks' Local Voices programmes to train radio journalists in HIV reporting. According to the document, at least 70% of the training exercises focus on teaching radio reporting skills such as interviewing, scriptwriting, digital sound editing, and sound recording. The remaining content focuses on HIV-specific skills, such as language use and HIV-related knowledge. The Local Voices programme believes that believes that radio journalists will only be able to use HIV knowledge effectively if they are given the opportunity to also develop their storytelling and reporting skills.

The manual includes a training agenda designed for a 7-day training workshop. The exercises and lesson plans are explained step-by-step in the different chapters of the manual; hand-outs and answer sheets are also provided. The manual does not intend to prescribe how to train, but rather aims to assist with workshop exercises, guidelines, and insight into a training method that Internews found worked well in Kenya, Nigeria, and India. An accompanying CD contains all the training exercises and lesson plans in the manual, to allow trainers to adapt them to different regions and training needs.