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.
Anatomy of a Newspaper: Understanding the Business
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Learn how a newspaper functions as a business by exploring the structure of its departments -- from newsroom to advertising to circulation.
API Transformation Tour: Meters, Members and Digital Publishing Revenue, 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.Find new ways to drive revenue from your content in this workshop course by API and Poynter's NewsU.
Beyond the Inverted Pyramid: Creating Alternative Story Forms
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Write, edit and present information that engages time-crunched readers.
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 Communities in a Time of Change: Reporting With Patchwork Nation
WebinarPrice: $9.95Go beyond the red/blue metaphors and get new tools for understanding your audience and the nation.
Covering Mental Health Issues and the Recession
WebinarPrice: Thanks to the support of our sponsor, the Robert R. McCormick Foundation, we are able to offer this $29.95 Webinar free.How to tell stories about the effect of the recession on the mental health of individuals, families and communities.
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 Veterans' Issues: What Happens When Soldiers Come Home
WebinarPrice: $9.95Unravel the web of state and federal programs for veterans and analyze their effectiveness.
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.
E-Commerce Strategies: Deals Malls and Targeted Segments: API Training
Seminar SnapshotPrice: This $24.95 course is being offered free, thanks to the generous support of the American Press Institute.In this Seminar Snapshot you will lean how to increase revenues by moving from daily deals to a deals mall and targeted segmentation.
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.
E-Commerce Strategies: Transforming Classified Car Ads: API Training
Seminar SnapshotPrice: This $24.95 course is being offered free, thanks to the generous support of the American Press Institute.In this Seminar Snapshot, learn the value of user-focused marketplace advertising and e-commerce models for generating online ad revenue.
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.
Essentials Drive Newspaper Sales
WebinarPrice: $24.95Learn smart sales strategies that sell newspapers.
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: 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.
Get Me Rewrite: The Craft of Revision
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Review your work with fresh eyes to fine-tune awkward passages.
Giving Local Stories a Global Context
WebinarPrice: $9.95Learn the tools, techniques and resources that will give you an edge in covering the global dimension of stories in your back yard.
Grow Preprint Revenue and Mine Profitable ZIP Codes
WebinarPrice: $24.95How to build a successful preprint action plan and measure your results. With handouts.
Handling Race and Ethnicity
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Examine whether and how to use racial and ethnic descriptions in news stories.
How to Work with Campaign Finance Data
WebinarPrice: $9.95Learn how to use and understand campaign finance data, including producing simple data visualizations and maps using free tools.
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.
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.
Mario Garcia on WSJ Tabloid Design
Seminar SnapshotPrice: This snapshot is free for registered users of NewsU.Examine the tools and techniques used by the international editions of The Wall Street Journal.
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.
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: Writing Obituaries
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Learn to write engaging, informative and accurate obituaries...and love it!
Plagiarism in the 21st Century
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $24.95Examine plagiarism in the context of today's digital publishing.
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.
Remaking Student Media, Inside and Out
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June 20 WebinarPrice: $9.95Explore four key steps for remaking student media.