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  • 10 Things You Can Do For Free on Your Website

    Webinar
    Price: $24.95

    Discover a variety of reader engagement tools you can start using today for free on your Web site.

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  • 100 Ideas to Make Your Journalism Better

    Webinar
    Price: $24.95

    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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  • Anatomy of a Multimedia News Organization

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Learn how an online-only news organization functions as a business by exploring its structure, departments and business model.

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  • Brainstorming Great Ideas: Editors' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: $29.95

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

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  • Build and Engage Local Audiences Online

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Get to know your local online audience and see what the power of local content can mean for you.

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  • Content Curation and Creation with Spundge: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar
    Price: 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.

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

    Webinar
    Sign up now for the
    June 28 Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    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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  • Credibility and Social Media in Your News Organization

    Webinar
    Price: $27.95

    How your news organization can create credible Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites for readers and the community.

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  • Describing Your Content: Metadata and What It’s Good For

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn how to tag your online content so users can find and filter it quickly.

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  • Discover Your Missing Links: The Semantic Web

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    An ONAvation Webinar replay: Go beyond tagging and build rich connections among all your content: articles, images, motion and audio.

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  • Document Mining with Overview: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar
    Price: 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.

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  • Don’t Get Fooled Again: Best Practices for Online Verification

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn how to spot online hoaxes and verify content, images and video you find on social networks.

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  • Easy Interactivity with Meograph: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar
    Price: 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.

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  • Effective Social Media for Small Organizations

    Webinar
    Price: $34.95

    Learn ways to use social networks as a reporting tool and to promote your work, even if you’re a one-, two- or three-man-band.

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  • Entrepreneurial Journalism: Revenue and Marketing

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: $29.95

    Explore business strategies and build a money-making plan for your new news site.

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  • Facebook for Journalists

    Webinar
    Price: $24.95

    Use Facebook to reach new readers, enhance storytelling and engage an online audience.

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  • Five Steps to Stronger Data Visualization

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn how well-edited data can reveal patterns and connections to a bigger picture.

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  • Flash for Journalists: 10 Things You Need to Know (2009 edition)

    Webinar
    Price: $24.95

    Learn what Flash is, what it can do and how it works to create multimedia storytelling. Plus handout.

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  • Freedom of Information

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: This course is free to registered users of News University.

    Use FOI laws to strengthen your reporting with public documents.

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  • Getting Started With Google Fusion Tables

    Webinar
    Price: $34.95

    Learn how Fusion Tables can help you host, visualize and publish your data as maps, charts and timelines.

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  • How Location-Based Services are Changing the News

    Webinar
    Price: $27.95

    An ONAvation Webinar: From Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite and Buzz to countless other services, learn how location can help you do innovative journalism online.

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  • How to Write Short and Well

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

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

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  • Hyperlocal News Startups: What's Working? What's Not?

    Webinar
    Price: $27.95

    A host of high-powered startups are joining thousands of independent local news blogs in the U.S. How does local news online add up?

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  • Illustrating the Story: Comics and Illustrated Journalism

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Use new forms of visual storytelling, including comics and multimedia illustration, to engage audiences.

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  • Innovation on the Front Lines of Journalism

    Webinar
    Price: $27.95

    Harness the latest digital technology – including blogs, social media and databases -- to take control of your future in journalism.

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  • Innovative Social Tools for Covering the 2012 Election

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Bulk up your election coverage—quickly and with existing staff—by harnessing the social web.

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  • Interactive Storytelling with Zeega: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar
    Sign up now for the
    May 23 Webinar
    Price: 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.

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  • Key Elements to Compelling Video Storytelling

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Explore the essential steps in the video storytelling process and practical storytelling strategies. Part of the Essential Skills for the Digital Journalist Webinar Series

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  • Lessons from a Contest: Inside NPPA 2008: Still Photography and Web Sites

    Webinar
    Price: Free

    Hear the judges discuss trends in multimedia, editing and other topics in this year's competition.

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  • Managing Comments on Your News Site

    Webinar
    Price: $27.95

    Tools to learn what your readers think about comments and ways to encourage civil conversations on your site.

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  • Multimedia Reporting: Covering Breaking News

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Explore the groundbreaking work of six sites, and prepare yourself and your newsroom for deadline coverage.

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

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

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

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  • New Sources of Digital Content: API Training

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: This $24.95 course is being offered free, thanks to the generous support of the American Press Institute.

    This seminar snapshot from API's Transformation Tour shows how content contributions from members of the community and user-generated content can transform a digital media platform.

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  • News Site Credibility: Whom Do Readers Trust?

    Webinar
    Price: $27.95

    How much do readers trust news articles? User comments? Tweets? Photos? Learn from the findings of a recent APME study.

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  • Newswriting for the Web: Words That Work Online on Deadline

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn how to craft effective news writing for the fast-paced scanning habits of online readers.

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  • Online Media Law: The Basics for Bloggers and Other Publishers

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Guidelines on copyright, defamation and privacy for anyone who publishes content online.

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  • Online Project Development: Part 2

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Three models of excellence show you how to plan, report, produce, market and assess Web projects.

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  • Online Project Development: Part 1

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Examine the five steps for creating successful Web projects and how they were used in award-winning work.

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  • Picture This: Interactive Data Visualization

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    An ONAvation Webinar replay: Discover tools for creating interactive data visualizations on your site. (Many are free or cheap!)

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  • Programming for Non-Geeks: Essential HTML

    Webinar
    Price: $27.95

    You don't have to be a tech guru to understand how HTML works. Get the basics in this comprehensive introductory Webinar.

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