Anatomy of a Newspaper: Understanding the Business
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Learn how a newspaper functions as a business by exploring the structure of its departments -- from newsroom to advertising to circulation.
Beyond the Inverted Pyramid: Creating Alternative Story Forms
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Write, edit and present information that engages time-crunched readers.
Brainstorming Great Ideas: Editors' Boot Camp
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $29.95How to brainstorm for breaking news, ongoing stories and enterprise, plus six keys to brainstorming.
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.
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.
E-Commerce Strategies: Digital Agency, Local Search, Local Interactives: API Training
Seminar SnapshotPrice: This $24.95 course is being offered free, thanks to the generous support of the American Press Institute.Learn how increasing the scope of your digital advertising and marketing services from a simple business directory to full-service local search and interactives impacts digital-only revenue.
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.
How to Write Short and Well
WebinarPrice: $29.95Learn the most reliable tools for writing short – across media platforms – and well.
Illustrating the Story: Comics and Illustrated Journalism
WebinarPrice: $29.95Use new forms of visual storytelling, including comics and multimedia illustration, to engage audiences.
Interactive Storytelling with Zeega: A Digital Tools Tutorial
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May 23 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.
Making Words, Pictures and Sound Work Together
WebinarPrice: $29.95Don't let text, pictures and audio compete for the viewer's attention. Learn how words and images can work together to engage your audience.
Mario Garcia on WSJ Tabloid Design
Seminar SnapshotPrice: This snapshot is free for registered users of NewsU.Examine the tools and techniques used by the international editions of The Wall Street Journal.
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.
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.
Telling Stories with Sound
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Explore how to create effective narratives by gathering, processing and mixing audio.
Tumblr for Journalists: Best Practices and Strategies
WebinarPrice: $29.95Learn how to use Tumblr to maximize your storytelling, research and social community engagement.
Typography for News Design
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Learn the principles of working with type and get fresh ideas to make your pages pop.
Video News Editing: The Remixer Game
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Explore how video editing influences your perception of news in this activity from Link TV.
Watching TV News: How To Be a Smarter Viewer
Self-Directed CoursePrice:There's more to being a news consumer than just watching the news. Learn to evaluate TV news and become a discriminating consumer.
Writing for the Ear
Self-Directed CoursePrice: This $29.95 course is free thanks to support by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.Whether you're new to audio storytelling or want to improve your radio broadcasts, podcasts, slide shows or videos, you'll learn how to tell compelling stories.