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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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  • Becoming a More Effective Writer: Clarity and Organization (June 2012)

    Online Group Seminar

    Build the reporting and writing habits you need to organize your information better and write more clearly.

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  • Becoming a More Effective Writer: Clarity and Organization (June 2013)

    Online Group Seminar

    Build the reporting and writing habits you need to organize your information better and write more clearly.

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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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  • Clarity is Key: Making Writing Clean and Concise

    Webinar

    Learn to clarify and streamline your writing by using straightforward words and stronger nouns and verbs.

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

    Webinar

    Learn how Spundge helps you cover a beat, research stories, collaborate with colleagues, and create content and curated streams.

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  • Covering Climate Change

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn the science and policies behind climate change and pick up the reporting and writing skills needed to tell stronger stories about global climate change.

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  • Covering Sexual Assault

    Webinar

    Examine how to balance the needs of vulnerable stakeholders against your duty to inform the public.

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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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  • Face-to-Face: Lessons of an International Backpack Journalist

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn how a backpack journalist survives and reports in such places as Haiti, Juarez Mexico and East Africa.

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  • Five Steps to Stronger Data Visualization

    Webinar

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

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  • Getting Your First Job in Journalism (2009)

    Webinar

    Job-hunting techniques to prepare new college graduates for a challenging job market.

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  • Help! for Writers

    Self-Directed Course

    Unlock more than 200 solutions to some of the most common problems writers face in any platform or genre.

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  • How to Write Short and Well

    Webinar

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

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  • Interactive Storytelling with Zeega: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    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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  • Introduction to Sports Reporting

    Self-Directed Course

    Find and tell engaging stories from sports events.

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  • Journalism Fundamentals: Craft & Values

    Self-Directed Course

    Explore essential journalism skills and principles in this introduction to producing news.

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  • Language Primer: Basics of Grammar, Punctuation and Word Use (Alcatel-Lucent Edition)

    Self-Directed Course

    This primer on the basics of writing and composition is for participants enrolled in the Alcatel-Lucent Effective Writing Certificate Program.

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  • Language Primer: Basics of Grammar, Punctuation and Word Use (Ohio University Edition)

    Self-Directed Course

    This primer on the basics of writing and composition is for students enrolled in J202 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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  • Language Primer: Basics of Grammar, Punctuation and Word Use (University of Wisconsin Edition)

    Self-Directed Course

    This primer on the basics of writing and composition is for students enrolled in J202 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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  • Language Primer: Basics of Grammar, Punctuation and Word Use (University of Wisconsin Spring 2013 Edition)

    Self-Directed Course

    This primer on the basics of writing and composition is for students enrolled in J202 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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

    Webinar

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

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  • On the Beat: Writing Obituaries

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn to write engaging, informative and accurate obituaries...and love it!

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  • Religion, Culture and Society: Getting Beyond the Cliches

    Self-Directed Course

    Religion intersects nearly every story you cover. Learn how to tell those stories with greater context, skill and thoughfulness.

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  • Remaking Student Media, Inside and Out

    Webinar
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    June 20 Webinar

    Four key steps for remaking student media and ideas for innovation in both education and revenue.

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  • Reporting With Video: Basics for Print Journalists

    Webinar

    Basic video techniques and principles for print reporters and still photographers making the transition to multimedia storytelling.

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  • Sources, Verification and Credibility

    Self-Directed Course

    Analyze and judge the reliability of news and information

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  • The Powerful Effects of Short Writing

    Webinar

    Learn the power and versatility of short writing from examples across media platforms.

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  • The Writer's Workbench: 50 Tools You Can Use

    Self-Directed Course

    Techniques to refine your storytelling and write with confidence.

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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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  • Watching TV News: How To Be a Smarter Viewer

    Self-Directed Course

    There's more to being a news consumer than just watching the news. Learn to evaluate TV news and become a discriminating consumer.

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  • What Makes a Great Blog: Principles for Success

    Webinar

    Find the characteristics common to great blogs and learn strategies for achieving them.

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