100 Ideas to Make Your Journalism Better
WebinarPrice: $24.95Improve your writing, your digital skills, your visual storytelling and more in this special Poynter faculty event to celebrate our 100th Webinar.
Best in Design: Lessons from SND Competition 2010
WebinarPrice: $27.95Get a judge's perspective from this year's SND newspaper design contest and improve your print layout, technique and style.
Beyond the Inverted Pyramid: Creating Alternative Story Forms
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Write, edit and present information that engages time-crunched readers.
Cleaning Your Copy: Grammar, Style and More
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Finding and fixing the most common style, grammar and punctuation errors.
Color in News Design
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Learn how the visual elements of color, contrast and dimension complement the written word.
Content Curation and Creation with Spundge: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarPrice: This $29.95 Webinar is free thanks to the support of the American Press Institute and Knight Foundation.Learn how Spundge helps you cover a beat, research stories, collaborate with colleagues, and create content and curated streams.
Covering Drones in U.S. Airspace and in Your Community
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June 28 WebinarPrice: $29.95Learn the fact to help you cover the rising use of drones in commercial airspace – by companies, law enforcement and researchers.
Covering Sexual Assault
WebinarPrice: FreeExamine how to balance the needs of vulnerable stakeholders against your duty to inform the public.
Credibility and Social Media in Your News Organization
WebinarPrice: $27.95How your news organization can create credible Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites for readers and the community.
Document Mining with Overview: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarPrice: This $29.95 Webinar is free thanks to the support of the American Press Institute and Knight Foundation.We'll show you how to use Overview to quickly sort though hundreds, or hundreds of thousands, of documents to find the story.
Don’t Get Fooled Again: Best Practices for Online Verification
WebinarPrice: $29.95Learn how to spot online hoaxes and verify content, images and video you find on social networks.
Easy Interactivity with Meograph: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarPrice: This $29.95 Webinar is free thanks to the support of the American Press Institute and Knight Foundation.The two most viral types of media are videos and infographics. Learn how you can do both with Meograph.
Five Steps to Stronger Data Visualization
WebinarPrice: $29.95Learn how well-edited data can reveal patterns and connections to a bigger picture.
Freedom of Information
Self-Directed CoursePrice: This course is free to registered users of News University.Use FOI laws to strengthen your reporting with public documents.
Getting Started With Google Fusion Tables
WebinarPrice: $34.95Learn how Fusion Tables can help you host, visualize and publish your data as maps, charts and timelines.
Getting Your First Job in Journalism (2009)
WebinarPrice: $14.95Job-hunting techniques to prepare new college graduates for a challenging job market.
How to Work with Campaign Finance Data
WebinarPrice: $9.95Learn how to use and understand campaign finance data, including producing simple data visualizations and maps using free tools.
HTML5 Essentials for Content Creators
WebinarPrice: $29.95HTML5 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.
Illustrating the Story: Comics and Illustrated Journalism
WebinarPrice: $29.95Use new forms of visual storytelling, including comics and multimedia illustration, to engage audiences.
Innovation on the Front Lines of Journalism
WebinarPrice: $27.95Harness the latest digital technology – including blogs, social media and databases -- to take control of your future in journalism.
Interactive Storytelling with Zeega: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarPrice: This $29.95 Webinar is free thanks to the support of the American Press Institute and Knight Foundation.Learn to easily tell beautiful immersive stories combining personal content with media curated from across the web.
Introduction to Ethical Decision-Making
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Ethics is not separate from the daily work of journalists. Learn the process before you're faced with a tough call on deadline.
Introduction to Sports Reporting
Self-Directed CoursePrice: $14.95Find and tell engaging stories from sports events.
Journalism Fundamentals: Craft & Values
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Explore essential journalism skills and principles in this introduction to producing news.
Managing Your Journalism Career and Skills
WebinarPrice: $14.95Boost your job-hunting practices to find that new job or your next one.
Math for Journalists: Help With Numbers
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Conquer your fear of numbers and handle arithmetic accurately with the math tools essential for all journalists.
Moving From Print to Web Design: 5 Things You Need to Know
WebinarPrice: $24.95Steps you can take right away to move toward online and interactive news design.
Navigating Copyright and Fair Use Issues in an Open-Source World
WebinarPrice: $29.95Learn how to use copyright as a publishing tool, rather than as a reason to not use others’ content.
News Sense: The Building Blocks of News
Self-Directed CoursePrice:What makes an idea or event a news story? Explore the who, what, when, where, why and how of news.
Newsgathering Law & Liability: A Guide for Reporting
Self-Directed CoursePrice: This $29.95 course is **FREE** thanks to generous grants from the Harnisch Foundation and The Cutts Foundation.Gather and report news more effectively while avoiding legal liability.
On the Beat: Covering Cops and Crime
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Techniques for navigating police departments and mining the beat for story ideas.
On the Beat: Covering Education
Self-Directed CoursePrice: FreeLearn how to find your way around the U.S. education system: the standards, the people and the protocol.
Photojournalism for Non-Photojournalists
WebinarPrice: $29.95Learn how to compose visually robust and newsworthy photographs regardless of how simple or complex your camera. Part of the Essential Skills for the Digital Journalist Webinar Series
Picture This: Interactive Data Visualization
WebinarPrice: $29.95An ONAvation Webinar replay: Discover tools for creating interactive data visualizations on your site. (Many are free or cheap!)
Remaking Student Media, Inside and Out
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June 20 WebinarPrice: $9.95Explore four key steps for remaking student media.
Reporting on Sexual Violence
Self-Directed CoursePrice: This $29.95 course is free thanks to a grant by National Sexual Violence Resource CenterExplore strategies and statistics to help you tell powerful stories with context, accuracy and sensitivity.
Social Media: Strategies and Tools for News
Self-Directed CoursePrice: $14.95Explore the strategy and tools to effectively integrate social media into all aspects of your journalism--including newsgathering, verification, audience engagement and distribution.
Sources, Verification and Credibility
Self-Directed CoursePrice: This $24.95 course is FREE thanks to funding support from the Radio Television Digital News Foundation, the Robert R. McCormick Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.Analyze and judge the reliability of news and information
Tablet Design and Storytelling: Poynter EyeTrack Research
WebinarPrice: $29.95How do you keep readers engaged on tablets? It's all about touch. Learn more in latest findings from Poynter.
Telling Stories with Sound
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Explore how to create effective narratives by gathering, processing and mixing audio.