FREEDONIA Instructors gu Note: For lesson planning purposes, numbers on the upper right-hand corner of the beginning of each exercise component(For example, 1(a), 2(), etc.)represent the number of minutes that each component should take. Text in capital letters is meant for instructors. Text in upper and lower case is the material that will be handed out to participants This exercise is designed to be as interactive as possible. In group discussions, instead of lecturing, try as much as possible to have participants debate among themselves and come ith the best answers to the points being raised But at the end of each discussion, make that, at the very least, the main points of each exercise have been driven home This entire exercise is a work in progress. It was conceived and developed by Danish journalist- consultants to the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank, and later edited and amended. Instructors using it should feel free to amend, shorten or add to it as they see fit Lesson 1(a): Five minutes to explain purpose and ground rules for entire "Freedonia exercise. It should be explained to participants that this is a simulation and that some of the exercises will be amusing, but that participants should treated them as though they were all part of a real, unfolding story Participants should also be warned that the entire Freedonia simulation exercise includes traps that journalists commonly fall into. They should be reassured that it is normal to fall into these traps, that by doing so and discovering afterward that they have fallen into these traps, they will learn how to avoid certain common pitfalls of journalism Participants should also be told that in all freedonia exercises they should work only with the information they have been given in handouts, during simulated press conferences or during the course of the simulation. (that is, they should not invent information or interviews with officials but, rather, should work only with the information that all groups have been given This latter point should be stressed at the beginning of each Freedonia assignment Lesson 1(b): 15 minutes to introduce hypothetical country and its newspapers. 15FREEDONIA Instructors guide Note: For lesson planning purposes, numbers on the upper right-hand corner of the beginning of each exercise component (For example, 1 (a), 2 (b), etc.) represent the number of minutes that each component should take. Text in capital letters is meant for instructors. Text in upper and lower case is the material that will be handed out to participants. This exercise is designed to be as interactive as possible. In group discussions, instead of lecturing, try as much as possible to have participants debate among themselves and come up with the best answers to the points being raised. But at the end of each discussion, make sure that, at the very least, the main points of each exercise have been driven home. This entire exercise is a work in progress. It was conceived and developed by Danish journalist￾consultants to the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank, and later edited and amended. Instructors using it should feel free to amend, shorten or add to it as they see fit. Lesson 1(a): Five minutes to explain purpose and ground rules for entire “Freedonia” exercise: 5 · It should be explained to participants that this is a simulation and that some of the exercises will be amusing, but that participants should treated them as though they were all part of a real, unfolding story. · Participants should also be warned that the entire Freedonia simulation exercise includes traps that journalists commonly fall into. They should be reassured that it is normal to fall into these traps, that by doing so and discovering afterward that they have fallen into these traps, they will learn how to avoid certain common pitfalls of journalism. · Participants should also be told that in all Freedonia exercises, they should work only with the information they have been given in handouts, during simulated press conferences or during the course of the simulation. (that is, they should not invent information or interviews with officials but, rather, should work only with the information that all groups have been given.) This latter point should be stressed at the beginning of each Freedonia assignment. Lesson 1(b): 15 minutes to introduce hypothetical country and its newspapers. 15