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.
Advice for the Newly Named News Director
Self-Directed CoursePrice: FreeTips, strategies and advice from veteran news directors to anyone stepping into the position.
API Transformation Tour: Selling Digital Products Resources and Links
Self-Directed CoursePrice: Transformation Tour participants can enroll using the PIN provided by the workshop organizers. Questions? Email us at info@newsu.org.Learn to take advantage of the strenghts of sales teams, product knowledge and focus on emerging products.
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.
Build and Engage Local Audiences Online
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Get to know your local online audience and see what the power of local content can mean for you.
Business Model Innovation and Growth Strategies: API Training
Self-Directed CoursePrice: This $34.95 course is free thanks to the support of the American Press Institute.How digital-only sales and services can boost revenue and help you stay competitive in the digital world.
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
Community Service Photojournalism: Contest Lessons Part 2
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Examine four approaches: localizing stories, watchdog photojournalism, connecting with under-covered communities and commentary through photo columns. Based on 2006 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 Difficult Stories Solo
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $19.95Telling stories and staying safe as a one-man-band journalist covering stories about people in difficult situations.
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.
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.
Frontline Editors Introduction: Understanding Leadership Styles
Self-Directed CoursePrice: FreeWork through more than 20 scenarios to understand the leadership skills a frontline editor needs.
How to Organize Your Sales Team for Success: API Training
Seminar SnapshotPrice: This $24.95 course is being offered free, thanks to the generous support of the American Press Institute.Learn to take advantage of strengths of the sales team by structuring them in a way to maximize and grow digital sales.
Innovation at Work: Helping New Ideas Succeed
Self-Directed CoursePrice: FreeLearn ways to make your organization more innovative.
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.
Journalism and Trauma
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Learn how to compassionately interview victims and how covering traumatic events affects you.
Language of the Image
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Develop the visual vocabulary to analyze and discuss the journalistic value of images.
Layout-driven Editing: A Seminar Snapshot
Seminar SnapshotPrice:How two newspapers implemented an innovative process in which stories are written to fit pre-designed page templates.
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.
Making Dull Stories Sizzle
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $19.95Learn how to make a mundane assignment into a memorable video story.
Multimedia Tools: Your 2009 Shopping List
WebinarPrice: $24.95The latest video cameras, audio recorders, mobile devices and accessories you need for mobile multimedia production.
Natural Sound Packages: Video Storytelling Without Reporter Narration
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $24.95Learn how to let your subjects tell their own stories.
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.
Quick, Quality Video News Stories
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $19.95Explore go-to video storytelling strategies on deadline.
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.
Reporting, Writing for TV and the Web: Aim for the Heart
Self-Directed CoursePrice: $24.95Learn how to connect with viewers by telling powerful stories that aim for their hearts.
Seven Daily Habits of Highly Effective Editing
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $15.00Edit video as though you were composing your own symphony.
Six Essential Skills to Maximize Your Storytelling Process
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $15.00Be an efficient reporter by how you gather sound, video and moments.
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.
Sound and Voice: Breathe Life Into Your Stories
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $19.95Learn techniques to capture quality audio and strengthen your narrative voice.
Storytelling in the Moment
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $15.00Invite your audience into your story with techniques that build character and bring the environment to the screen.
Surviving Solo: Be a Better Backpack Journalist
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $24.95You don't have to sacrifice the quality of your video stories simply because you're reporting and producing on your own.
Targeting New Audiences: Finding Your Niche
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Starting a new print publication or Web site? Explore ways to get to know your audience and get your ideas off the ground.
Telling Stories with Sound
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Explore how to create effective narratives by gathering, processing and mixing audio.
Understanding Video Compression for Journalists
WebinarPrice: $24.95The latest techniques to compress and deliver video to the Web.
Useful Lighting Techniques for Today's Video Assignment
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $24.95Learn how to set up individual or multiple lights — and which lights to avoid.