Finding the Heart of the Story
Seminar SnapshotLearn essential writing techniques to produce compelling, sharply focused stories with strong underlying themes.
Finding the Right Voice and Approach for Your Stories
Seminar SnapshotProduce and edit your stories with the right balance of elements, narration and mood.
First Amendment for the High School Journalist
Self-Directed CourseGain a better understanding of freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
Five Motivators to Engage Viewers: A Poynter Tutorial
Video TutorialPoynter's Al Tompkins shows you five sure-fire ways your story can connect with your audience.
Five Steps to Multimedia Storytelling
Self-Directed CourseDiscover the basic steps necessary to organize a story in a multimedia format.
Five Steps to Stronger Data Visualization
WebinarLearn how well-edited data can reveal patterns and connections to a bigger picture.
Flash for Journalists: 10 Things You Need to Know (2009 edition)
WebinarLearn what Flash is, what it can do and how it works to create multimedia storytelling. Plus handout.
Freedom of Information
Self-Directed CourseUse FOI laws to strengthen your reporting with public documents.
Frontline Editors Introduction: Understanding Leadership Styles
Self-Directed CourseWork through more than 20 scenarios to understand the leadership skills a frontline editor needs.
FTP Made Simple
TutorialFTP is an easy-to-learn method for uploading files from your website to a Web server.
Functional Web Design for Today’s News Audiences
Self-Directed CourseCreate user friendly, content-driven sites by applying sound navigation, information hierarchy, and integrated multimedia.
Generating Story Ideas: Seeing Stories All Around You
Seminar SnapshotLearn proven techniques to recognize and refine your best story ideas.
Get Me Rewrite: The Craft of Revision
Self-Directed CourseReview your work with fresh eyes to fine-tune awkward passages.
Getting Ahead of the Food Price Story
WebinarRising food prices affect everyone. Learn how to cut through the numbers and jargon to tell stories that connect with your readers and viewers.
Getting Started With Google Fusion Tables
WebinarLearn how Fusion Tables can help you host, visualize and publish your data as maps, charts and timelines.
Getting Your First Job in Journalism (2009)
WebinarJob-hunting techniques to prepare new college graduates for a challenging job market.
Giving Local Stories a Global Context
WebinarLearn the tools, techniques and resources that will give you an edge in covering the global dimension of stories in your back yard.
Grow Preprint Revenue and Mine Profitable ZIP Codes
WebinarHow to build a successful preprint action plan and measure your results. With handouts.
Handling Race and Ethnicity
Self-Directed CourseExamine whether and how to use racial and ethnic descriptions in news stories.
Help! for Writers
Self-Directed CourseUnlock more than 200 solutions to some of the most common problems writers face in any platform or genre.
How Location-Based Services are Changing the News
WebinarAn ONAvation Webinar: From Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite and Buzz to countless other services, learn how location can help you do innovative journalism online.
How to Make Stimulus Spending a Local Story
Seminar SnapshotTips for finding out what share of the $787 billion pie is coming to your area -- and if the recipients are deserving.
How to Organize Your Sales Team for Success: API Training
Seminar SnapshotLearn to take advantage of strengths of the sales team by structuring them in a way to maximize and grow digital sales.
How to Use Detail in Your Writing
WebinarHow to collect and select details that turn routine reporting into powerful storytelling.
How to Work with Campaign Finance Data
WebinarLearn how to use and understand campaign finance data, including producing simple data visualizations and maps using free tools.
How to Write Short and Well
WebinarLearn the most reliable tools for writing short – across media platforms – and well.
HTML5 Essentials for Content Creators
WebinarHTML5 is a significant step forward for the technology that powers the Web. Learn how to put HTML5 to work for your site. An ONAvations Webinar.
Hunt and Gather Details for Your Story
Seminar SnapshotLearn how to research and report the kinds of human detail and vivid scenes that make your writing come alive.
Hyperlocal News Startups: What's Working? What's Not?
WebinarA host of high-powered startups are joining thousands of independent local news blogs in the U.S. How does local news online add up?
Illustrating the Story: Comics and Illustrated Journalism
WebinarUse new forms of visual storytelling, including comics and multimedia illustration, to engage audiences.
Improve Your Teaching With Case Studies
WebinarLearn how the case method can train your students to think for themselves, based on the experiences of the Knight Case Studies Initiative.
Improving Climate Change Coverage
Seminar SnapshotExplore the crucial issues involved in covering global climate change.
Innovation at Work: Helping New Ideas Succeed
Self-Directed CourseLearn ways to make your organization more innovative.
Innovation on the Front Lines of Journalism
WebinarHarness the latest digital technology – including blogs, social media and databases -- to take control of your future in journalism.
Innovative Social Tools for Covering the 2012 Election
WebinarBulk up your election coverage—quickly and with existing staff—by harnessing the social web.
Interactive Storytelling with Zeega: A Digital Tools Tutorial
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May 23 WebinarLearn to easily tell beautiful immersive stories combining personal content with media curated from across the web.
International Media Innovation Management Certificate Program
Certificate ProgramMedienhaus Wien offers the students in its master's program a certificate in partnership with The Poynter Institute
Assessments for this certificate
- Understanding Audiences and Their Behavior: Course Assessment
Measures your understanding of the content in the course "Understanding Audiences and Their Behavior" at Poynter's NewsU.
- Managing Change: Creating Strategies, Setting Priorities: Course Assessment
Measures your understanding of the content in the course "Managing Change: Creating Strategies, Setting Priorities" at Poynter's NewsU.
- Innovation at Work: Helping New Ideas Succeed: Course Assessment
Measures your understanding of the content in the course "Innovation at Work: Helping New Ideas Succeed" at Poynter's NewsU.
- Becoming an Entrepreneurial Journalist: From Idea to Implementation: Course Assessment
Measures your understanding of the content in the course "Becoming an Entrepreneurial Journalist: From Idea to Implementation" at Poynter's NewsU.
- Understanding Audiences and Their Behavior: Course Assessment
International Reporting Basics: What You Need to Know Before You Go
Self-Directed CourseLearn how to plan and pack for your trip, and how to gather information and stay safe once you arrive.
Intro to Digital Ad Sales
WebinarHow can you make money with your online content? Learn what's working, what's not and what's ahead in turning content into revenue.
Introducción al periodismo medioambiental
Self-Directed CourseProduzca un mejor periodismo medioambiental, desde la generación de ideas a la publicación.