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 of Photojournalism: What Makes a Winner
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Go behind the scenes of the annual National Press Photographers Association contest to explore the elements of award-winning photojournalism.
Beyond the Inverted Pyramid: Creating Alternative Story Forms
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Write, edit and present information that engages time-crunched readers.
Census Coverage: Going Deep with Demographic and Economic Data
Seminar SnapshotPrice:Let the experts show you how you can find great stories in the wealth of data collected by the Census Bureau.
Community Service Photojournalism: Contest Lessons Part 1
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Analyze three approaches to telling visual stories that connect with readers. Based on 2005 ASNE Contest
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 Sexual Assault
WebinarPrice: FreeExamine how to balance the needs of vulnerable stakeholders against your duty to inform the public.
Covering the Green Jobs Debate
WebinarPrice: $9.95Tell stronger stories about the impact of green jobs in your community.
Covering Water Quality: What You Need to Know
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Understand the complex environmental issues and find resources to tell compelling stories.
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.
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.
Face-to-Face: "Testing Grounds"
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $9.95Reporters Kris Hundley and Kathleen Flynn discuss their experience in producing "Testing Grounds," an award-winning story about drug testing in India.
Face-to-Face: Lessons of an International Backpack Journalist
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $9.95Learn how a backpack journalist survives and reports in such places as Haiti, Juarez Mexico and East Africa.
Face-to-Face: Reporting on Revolution
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $9.95See Egypt through the eyes of independent journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous.
Face-to-Face: Reports From Gaza and The West Bank
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $9.95Learn methods on how to report from the West Bank or Gaza Strip from a veteran journalist.
Face-to-Face: Undercover in Bahrain
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $9.95Mae Ying Welsh discusses how she produced the award-winning documentary "Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark"
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.
International Reporting Basics: What You Need to Know Before You Go
Self-Directed CoursePrice: FreeLearn how to plan and pack for your trip, and how to gather information and stay safe once you arrive.
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.
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 2009 Shopping List
WebinarPrice: $24.95The latest video cameras, audio recorders, mobile devices and accessories you need for mobile multimedia production.
New Sources of Digital Content: API Training
Seminar SnapshotPrice: 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.
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.
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.
On the Beat: Covering Hospitals
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Step into the shoes of a rookie health beat reporter and investigate local hospitals on deadline.
On the Beat: Writing Obituaries
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Learn to write engaging, informative and accurate obituaries...and love it!
Online Media Law: The Basics for Bloggers and Other Publishers
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Guidelines on copyright, defamation and privacy for anyone who publishes content online.
Online Project Development: Part 1
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Examine the five steps for creating successful Web projects and how they were used in award-winning work.
Religion, Culture and Society: Getting Beyond the Cliches
Self-Directed CoursePrice: Thanks to a grant from the Ford Foundation, this course is available free of charge to registered users at NewsU.Religion intersects nearly every story you cover. Learn how to tell those stories with greater context, skill and thoughfulness.
Reporting Across Platforms
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Explore the different approaches you need to report for online, print and broadcast stories.
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.
Reporting With Video: Basics for Print Journalists
WebinarPrice: $24.95Basic video techniques and principles for print reporters and still photographers making the transition to multimedia storytelling.
Social Media and Journalism: What Works and Why
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $14.95Explore current uses, roles, opportunities and challenges in social media when it combines with journalism and some possible future outcomes.
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
Telling Stories with Sound
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Explore how to create effective narratives by gathering, processing and mixing audio.
The Be a Reporter Game
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Practice the basics of newsgathering -- asking questions, verifying information -- while racing against a deadline.
The Science and Art of Story Posting: API Training
Seminar SnapshotPrice: 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 you can use analytics to determine how and to post content so that you can maximize your audience.