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  • 100 Ideas to Make Your Journalism Better

    Webinar

    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 Newspaper: Understanding the Business

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn how a newspaper functions as a business by exploring the structure of its departments -- from newsroom to advertising to circulation.

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  • Best in Design: Lessons from SND Competition 2010

    Webinar

    Get a judge's perspective from this year's SND newspaper design contest and improve your print layout, technique and style.

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  • Beyond the Inverted Pyramid: Creating Alternative Story Forms

    Self-Directed Course

    Write, edit and present information that engages time-crunched readers.

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  • Brainstorming Great Ideas: Editors' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot

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

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  • Cleaning Your Copy: Grammar, Style and More

    Self-Directed Course

    Finding and fixing the most common style, grammar and punctuation errors.

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  • Coaching Tomorrow's Journalists

    Self-Directed Course

    Working with teen journalists can be a challenge. Find the assistance and resources you need in this course.

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  • Color in News Design

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn how the visual elements of color, contrast and dimension complement the written word.

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  • Document Mining with Overview: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar

    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

    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

    The two most viral types of media are videos and infographics. Learn how you can do both with Meograph.

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  • Illustrating the Story: Comics and Illustrated Journalism

    Webinar

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

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  • Interactive Storytelling with Zeega: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar
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    May 23 Webinar

    Learn to easily tell beautiful immersive stories combining personal content with media curated from across the web.

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  • Introduction to Ethical Decision-Making

    Self-Directed Course

    Ethics is not separate from the daily work of journalists. Learn the process before you're faced with a tough call on deadline.

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  • Layout-driven Editing: A Seminar Snapshot

    Seminar Snapshot

    How two newspapers implemented an innovative process in which stories are written to fit pre-designed page templates.

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  • Managing Your Journalism Career and Skills

    Webinar

    Boost your job-hunting practices to find that new job or your next one.

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  • Mario Garcia on WSJ Tabloid Design

    Seminar Snapshot

    Examine the tools and techniques used by the international editions of The Wall Street Journal.

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  • Math for Journalists: Help With Numbers

    Self-Directed Course

    Conquer your fear of numbers and handle arithmetic accurately with the math tools essential for all journalists.

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

    Webinar

    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

    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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  • Newsgathering Law & Liability: A Guide for Reporting

    Self-Directed Course

    Gather and report news more effectively while avoiding legal liability.

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  • On the Beat: Covering Cops and Crime

    Self-Directed Course

    Techniques for navigating police departments and mining the beat for story ideas.

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  • Reporting on Sexual Violence

    Self-Directed Course

    Explore strategies and statistics to help you tell powerful stories with context, accuracy and sensitivity.

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  • Social Media: Strategies and Tools for News

    Self-Directed Course

    Explore the strategy and tools to effectively integrate social media into all aspects of your journalism--including newsgathering, verification, audience engagement and distribution.

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  • The Be a Reporter Game

    Self-Directed Course

    Practice the basics of newsgathering -- asking questions, verifying information -- while racing against a deadline.

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  • The Editor's Toolkit: Editors' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot

    Pick up the tips, tricks (and, yes, secrets) of successful veteran editors

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  • This Ain’t Your Grandma’s Grammar: 4 Concepts to Improve Your Reading and Writing Forever

    Webinar

    Learn four language concepts that will improve your reading and writing forever with our special National Grammar Day Webinar.

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  • Tumblr for Journalists: Best Practices and Strategies

    Webinar

    Learn how to use Tumblr to maximize your storytelling, research and social community engagement.

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  • Typography for News Design

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn the principles of working with type and get fresh ideas to make your pages pop.

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  • «Движение глаз» и альтернативные формы подачи историй

    Webinar

    Новый анализ того, как формируется история, вовлекает читателей, а также результаты исследования Пойнтера чтения по движению глаз,( EyeTrack study)

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  • شبكات الإعلام الاجتماعي: استراتيجيات وأدوات للأخبار

    Self-Directed Course

    Understand the impact of social media on journalism and learn to effectively integrate social media into your newsgathering.

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