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.
Anatomy of a Multimedia News Organization
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Learn how an online-only news organization functions as a business by exploring its structure, departments and business model.
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.
Clarity is Key: Making Writing Clean and Concise
WebinarPrice: $29.95Learn to clarify and streamline your writing by using straightforward words and stronger nouns and verbs.
Cleaning Your Copy: Grammar, Style and More
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Finding and fixing the most common style, grammar and punctuation errors.
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 Climate Change
Self-Directed CoursePrice: FreeLearn the science and policies behind climate change and pick up the reporting and writing skills needed to tell stronger stories about global climate change.
Covering Difficult Stories Solo
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $19.95Telling stories and staying safe as a one-man-band journalist covering stories about people in difficult situations.
Covering Sexual Assault
WebinarPrice: FreeExamine how to balance the needs of vulnerable stakeholders against your duty to inform the public.
Covering War at Home
Seminar SnapshotPrice:Strategies for telling the stories of soldiers, their families and citizens on the home front.
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.
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.
Finding the Right Voice and Approach for Your Stories
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $15.00Produce and edit your stories with the right balance of elements, narration and mood.
Five Steps to Stronger Data Visualization
WebinarPrice: $29.95Learn how well-edited data can reveal patterns and connections to a bigger picture.
Flash for Journalists: 10 Things You Need to Know (2009 edition)
WebinarPrice: $24.95Learn what Flash is, what it can do and how it works to create multimedia storytelling. Plus handout.
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.
Help! for Writers
Self-Directed CoursePrice: $29.95Unlock more than 200 solutions to some of the most common problems writers face in any platform or genre.
Innovation at Work: Helping New Ideas Succeed
Self-Directed CoursePrice: FreeLearn ways to make your organization more innovative.
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
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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.
Journalism and Trauma
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Learn how to compassionately interview victims and how covering traumatic events affects you.
Key Elements to Compelling Video Storytelling
WebinarPrice: $29.95Explore the essential steps in the video storytelling process and practical storytelling strategies. Part of the Essential Skills for the Digital Journalist Webinar Series
Language of the Image
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Develop the visual vocabulary to analyze and discuss the journalistic value of images.
Language Primer: Basics of Grammar, Punctuation and Word Use (Alcatel-Lucent Edition)
Self-Directed CoursePrice: $12.95This primer on the basics of writing and composition is for participants enrolled in the Alcatel-Lucent Effective Writing Certificate Program.
Language Primer: Basics of Grammar, Punctuation and Word Use (Ohio University Edition)
Self-Directed CoursePrice: $12.95This primer on the basics of writing and composition is for students enrolled in J202 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Language Primer: Basics of Grammar, Punctuation and Word Use (University of Wisconsin Edition)
Self-Directed CoursePrice: $12.95This primer on the basics of writing and composition is for students enrolled in J202 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Language Primer: Basics of Grammar, Punctuation and Word Use (University of Wisconsin Spring 2013 Edition)
Self-Directed CoursePrice: $12.95This primer on the basics of writing and composition is for students enrolled in J202 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Lessons from a Contest: Inside NPPA 2008: Broadcast
WebinarPrice: FreeHear the judges discuss pacing, storytelling techniques and other topics in this year's competition.
Lessons from a Contest: Inside NPPA 2008: Still Photography and Web Sites
WebinarPrice: FreeHear the judges discuss trends in multimedia, editing and other topics in this year's competition.
Lousy Listeners: How to Avoid Being One
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Better listeners are better leaders. Learn how to break bad listening habits and improve your listening skills.
Making Dull Stories Sizzle
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $19.95Learn how to make a mundane assignment into a memorable video story.
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.
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.
Multimedia Reporting: Covering Breaking News
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Explore the groundbreaking work of six sites, and prepare yourself and your newsroom for deadline coverage.
Multimedia Tools: Your 2008 Shopping List
WebinarPrice: $29.95Learn which tools you need to produce digital video, audio and still photos.
Multimedia Tools: Your 2009 Shopping List
WebinarPrice: $24.95The latest video cameras, audio recorders, mobile devices and accessories you need for mobile multimedia production.