"Welcome to this module on children‘s rights for journalists. The objective of the module is to provide you, the trainee journalist, with the concepts and the information that will help you to develop responsible news reporting skills that appreciate and respect children's rights [...] The module is organised into two main units. Unit 1, Introducing Children‘s Rights, provides the background to why understanding rights is so important and will look at good practice as well as the problems and challenges that arise in reporting news concerning children. Unit 2, Children‘s Rights and Professional Journalism Practice, deals with professional journalism practice from a children's rights perspective and looks at the policies and the contexts in which we need to think about how to improve our work as journalists. The material presented here should be read alongside the many supporting references and recommendations for further reading. We hope that what you learn in the module will provide a foundation and a reference point for all forms of news reporting but particularly so when children are central to the story." (Pages 5-7)