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.
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 the Green Jobs Debate
WebinarPrice: $9.95Tell stronger stories about the impact of green jobs in your community.
Covering War at Home
Seminar SnapshotPrice:Strategies for telling the stories of soldiers, their families and citizens on the home front.
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.
Election 2012 Reporting: Understanding Opinion Polls
WebinarPrice: $24.95Learn how to accurately evaluate and report on public opinion polls for the 2012 presidential election.
Essentials Drive Newspaper Sales
WebinarPrice: $24.95Learn smart sales strategies that sell newspapers.
First Amendment for the High School Journalist
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Gain a better understanding of freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
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.
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.
Improving Climate Change Coverage
Seminar SnapshotPrice:Explore the crucial issues involved in covering global climate change.
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.
Journalism and Trauma
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Learn how to compassionately interview victims and how covering traumatic events affects you.
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.
Multimedia Reporting: Covering Breaking News
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Explore the groundbreaking work of six sites, and prepare yourself and your newsroom for deadline coverage.
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: Covering Education
Self-Directed CoursePrice: FreeLearn how to find your way around the U.S. education system: the standards, the people and the protocol.
On the Beat: Covering Hospitals
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Step into the shoes of a rookie health beat reporter and investigate local hospitals on deadline.
On the Beat: Covering the Courts
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Explore the court system and learn how to translate legal proceedings into clear stories.
Online Media Law: The Basics for Bloggers and Other Publishers
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Guidelines on copyright, defamation and privacy for anyone who publishes content online.
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.
Reporting on Nonprofits
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Learn the differences between nonprofits, what laws regulate them and how you can find information about their finances.
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.
Social Media and Journalism: What Works and Why
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $14.95Explore current uses, roles, opportunities and challenges in social media when it combines with journalism and some possible future outcomes.
Social Media and Your 2012 Election Coverage
WebinarPrice: $9.95Learn how political campaigns are using social media and what you need to know to deliver the coverage your community needs.
Sources, Verification and Credibility
Self-Directed CoursePrice: This $24.95 course is FREE thanks to funding support from the Radio Television Digital News Foundation, the Robert R. McCormick Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.Analyze and judge the reliability of news and information
State of the News Media (2011)
WebinarPrice: $9.95Get an analysis of key trends facing print, broadcast and online from the State of the News Media 2011 report .
Succeeding in Sales with Emerging Digital Products: API Training
Seminar SnapshotPrice: This $24.95 course is being offered free, thanks to the generous support of the American Press Institute.Learn to focus on emerging products that drive results for the client.
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.
The Be a Reporter Game
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Practice the basics of newsgathering -- asking questions, verifying information -- while racing against a deadline.
The Science and Art of Story Posting: 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 you can use analytics to determine how and to post content so that you can maximize your audience.