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  • 100 Ideas to Make Your Journalism Better

    Webinar

    Improve your writing, your digital skills, your visual storytelling and more in this special Poynter faculty event to celebrate our 100th Webinar.

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  • Becoming a More Effective Writer: Clarity and Organization (June 2012)

    Online Group Seminar

    Build the reporting and writing habits you need to organize your information better and write more clearly.

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  • Becoming a More Effective Writer: Clarity and Organization (June 2013)

    Online Group Seminar
    Apply by
    May 30 for this Online Group Seminar

    Build the reporting and writing habits you need to organize your information better and write more clearly.

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  • Brainstorming Great Ideas: Editors' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot

    How to brainstorm for breaking news, ongoing stories and enterprise, plus six keys to brainstorming.

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  • Clarity is Key: Making Writing Clean and Concise

    Webinar

    Learn to clarify and streamline your writing by using straightforward words and stronger nouns and verbs.

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  • Cleaning Your Copy: Grammar, Style and More

    Self-Directed Course

    Finding and fixing the most common style, grammar and punctuation errors.

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  • Coaching Writers: Editors' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn strategies, techniques and questions that can help you coach writers to produce stories that are clear, focused, powerful and compelling.

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  • Covering Drones in U.S. Airspace and in Your Community

    Webinar
    Sign up now for the
    June 28 Webinar

    Learn the fact to help you cover the rising use of drones in commercial airspace – by companies, law enforcement and researchers.

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  • Help! for Writers

    Self-Directed Course

    Unlock more than 200 solutions to some of the most common problems writers face in any platform or genre.

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  • How to Write Short and Well

    Webinar

    Learn the most reliable tools for writing short – across media platforms – and well.

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  • Lousy Listeners: How to Avoid Being One

    Self-Directed Course

    Better listeners are better leaders. Learn how to break bad listening habits and improve your listening skills.

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  • Navigating Copyright and Fair Use Issues in an Open-Source World

    Webinar

    Learn how to use copyright as a publishing tool, rather than as a reason to not use others’ content.

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  • Religion, Culture and Society: Getting Beyond the Cliches

    Self-Directed Course

    Religion intersects nearly every story you cover. Learn how to tell those stories with greater context, skill and thoughfulness.

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  • Reporting on Sexual Violence

    Self-Directed Course

    Explore strategies and statistics to help you tell powerful stories with context, accuracy and sensitivity.

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  • The Powerful Effects of Short Writing

    Webinar

    Learn the power and versatility of short writing from examples across media platforms.

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  • The Writer's Workbench: 50 Tools You Can Use

    Self-Directed Course

    Techniques to refine your storytelling and write with confidence.

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  • Tumblr for Journalists: Best Practices and Strategies

    Webinar

    Learn how to use Tumblr to maximize your storytelling, research and social community engagement.

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