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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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  • Adding Verbs with Verve and Volume to Your Writing

    Webinar

    Tune up verbs to make writing sing and dance.

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  • Becoming a More Effective Reporter: Telling Untold Stories (Oct 2013)

    Online Group Seminar
    Apply by
    September 30 for this Online Group Seminar

    Improve your ability to find and tell stories off the beaten path in your community.

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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
    Apply by
    May 21 for this Online Group Seminar

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

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  • Best Feature Ideas: AASFE’s Show & Steal

    Webinar

    Take away the creative ideas from the country’s best arts and features coverage.

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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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  • Building Effective News & Information Websites

    Online Group Seminar

    This hands-on, project-based course will help you develop web publishing skills from the ground up – no prior programming experience necessary.

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  • Building Effective News & Information Websites: HTML & CSS (March 2013)

    Online Group Seminar

    This hands-on, project-based course will help you develop web publishing skills from the ground up – no prior programming experience necessary.

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  • Building Effective News & Information Websites: jQuery & WordPress (September 2013)

    Online Group Seminar
    Apply by
    July 1 for this Online Group Seminar

    This hands-on, project-based course will help you create interactive, dynamic websites with cutting-edge tools and techniques.

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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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  • 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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  • Conquering Writer's Block: Help! for Writers

    Webinar

    Kick-start some of your most creative work with these solutions to help you overcome writer's block.

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  • Converting to Tabloid

    Seminar Snapshot

    Explore how The Wall Street Journal redesigned its international editions, moving from broadsheet to tabloid.

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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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  • Covering War at Home

    Seminar Snapshot

    Strategies for telling the stories of soldiers, their families and citizens on the home front.

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  • Credibility and Social Media in Your News Organization

    Webinar

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

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  • Discover Your Missing Links: The Semantic Web

    Webinar

    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

    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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  • E-Commerce Strategies: Digital Agency, Local Search, Local Interactives: API Training

    Seminar Snapshot

    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.

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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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  • Finding the Heart of the Story

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn essential writing techniques to produce compelling, sharply focused stories with strong underlying themes.

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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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  • Freedom of Information

    Self-Directed Course

    Use FOI laws to strengthen your reporting with public documents.

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  • Generating Story Ideas: Seeing Stories All Around You

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn proven techniques to recognize and refine your best story ideas.

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  • Get Me Rewrite: The Craft of Revision

    Self-Directed Course

    Review your work with fresh eyes to fine-tune awkward passages.

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  • Handling Race and Ethnicity

    Self-Directed Course

    Examine whether and how to use racial and ethnic descriptions in news stories.

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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 Use Detail in Your Writing

    Webinar

    How to collect and select details that turn routine reporting into powerful storytelling.

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  • How to Work with Campaign Finance Data

    Webinar

    Learn how to use and understand campaign finance data, including producing simple data visualizations and maps using free tools.

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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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  • Hunt and Gather Details for Your Story

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn how to research and report the kinds of human detail and vivid scenes that make your writing come alive.

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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
    Sign up now for the
    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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  • Journalism and Trauma

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn how to compassionately interview victims and how covering traumatic events affects you.

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