100 Ideas to Make Your Journalism Better
WebinarImprove your writing, your digital skills, your visual storytelling and more in this special Poynter faculty event to celebrate our 100th Webinar.
Audience Growth and Digital Content Strategies: API Training
Self-Directed CourseYour guide to key strategies for your digital content that can help your organization improve its digital presence and grow audience.
Becoming a More Effective Writer: Clarity and Organization (June 2012)
Online Group SeminarBuild the reporting and writing habits you need to organize your information better and write more clearly.
Becoming a More Effective Writer: Clarity and Organization (June 2013)
Online Group SeminarBuild the reporting and writing habits you need to organize your information better and write more clearly.
Beyond the Inverted Pyramid: Creating Alternative Story Forms
Self-Directed CourseWrite, edit and present information that engages time-crunched readers.
Brainstorming Great Ideas: Editors' Boot Camp
Seminar SnapshotHow to brainstorm for breaking news, ongoing stories and enterprise, plus six keys to brainstorming.
Cleaning Your Copy: Grammar, Style and More
Self-Directed CourseFinding and fixing the most common style, grammar and punctuation errors.
Coaching Writers: Editors' Boot Camp
Seminar SnapshotLearn strategies, techniques and questions that can help you coach writers to produce stories that are clear, focused, powerful and compelling.
Content Curation and Creation with Spundge: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarLearn how Spundge helps you cover a beat, research stories, collaborate with colleagues, and create content and curated streams.
Covering Climate Change
Self-Directed CourseLearn 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 Drones in U.S. Airspace and in Your Community
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June 28 WebinarLearn the fact to help you cover the rising use of drones in commercial airspace – by companies, law enforcement and researchers.
Covering Veterans' Issues: What Happens When Soldiers Come Home
WebinarUnravel the web of state and federal programs for veterans and analyze their effectiveness.
Covering War at Home
Seminar SnapshotStrategies for telling the stories of soldiers, their families and citizens on the home front.
Describing Your Content: Metadata and What It’s Good For
WebinarLearn how to tag your online content so users can find and filter it quickly.
Document Mining with Overview: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarWe'll show you how to use Overview to quickly sort though hundreds, or hundreds of thousands, of documents to find the story.
Don’t Get Fooled Again: Best Practices for Online Verification
WebinarLearn how to spot online hoaxes and verify content, images and video you find on social networks.
Five Steps to Stronger Data Visualization
WebinarLearn how well-edited data can reveal patterns and connections to a bigger picture.
How to Work with Campaign Finance Data
WebinarLearn how to use and understand campaign finance data, including producing simple data visualizations and maps using free tools.
How to Write Short and Well
WebinarLearn the most reliable tools for writing short – across media platforms – and well.
Hunt and Gather Details for Your Story
Seminar SnapshotLearn how to research and report the kinds of human detail and vivid scenes that make your writing come alive.
Interactive Storytelling with Zeega: A Digital Tools Tutorial
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May 23 WebinarLearn to easily tell beautiful immersive stories combining personal content with media curated from across the web.
Journalism and Trauma
Self-Directed CourseLearn how to compassionately interview victims and how covering traumatic events affects you.
Language of the Image
Self-Directed CourseDevelop the visual vocabulary to analyze and discuss the journalistic value of images.
Layout-driven Editing: A Seminar Snapshot
Seminar SnapshotHow two newspapers implemented an innovative process in which stories are written to fit pre-designed page templates.
Lousy Listeners: How to Avoid Being One
Self-Directed CourseBetter listeners are better leaders. Learn how to break bad listening habits and improve your listening skills.
Making Words, Pictures and Sound Work Together
WebinarDon't let text, pictures and audio compete for the viewer's attention. Learn how words and images can work together to engage your audience.
Math for Journalists: Help With Numbers
Self-Directed CourseConquer your fear of numbers and handle arithmetic accurately with the math tools essential for all journalists.
Navigating Copyright and Fair Use Issues in an Open-Source World
WebinarLearn how to use copyright as a publishing tool, rather than as a reason to not use others’ content.
New Sources of Digital Content: API Training
Seminar SnapshotThis 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.
Religion, Culture and Society: Getting Beyond the Cliches
Self-Directed CourseReligion intersects nearly every story you cover. Learn how to tell those stories with greater context, skill and thoughfulness.
Reporting on Sexual Violence
Self-Directed CourseExplore strategies and statistics to help you tell powerful stories with context, accuracy and sensitivity.
Social Media Search: Maximizing Results
WebinarExplore new social search techniques to expand your reporting and research online.
Social Media: Strategies and Tools for News
Self-Directed CourseExplore the strategy and tools to effectively integrate social media into all aspects of your journalism--including newsgathering, verification, audience engagement and distribution.
The Editor's Toolkit: Editors' Boot Camp
Seminar SnapshotPick up the tips, tricks (and, yes, secrets) of successful veteran editors
The Powerful Effects of Short Writing
WebinarLearn the power and versatility of short writing from examples across media platforms.
The Science and Art of Story Posting: API Training
Seminar SnapshotThis 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.
This Ain’t Your Grandma’s Grammar: 4 Concepts to Improve Your Reading and Writing Forever
WebinarLearn four language concepts that will improve your reading and writing forever with our special National Grammar Day Webinar.
Tumblr for Journalists: Best Practices and Strategies
WebinarLearn how to use Tumblr to maximize your storytelling, research and social community engagement.
Understanding Internet Basics for a Better Online News Operation
WebinarWhat every digital journalist, editor and publisher should know about how the Internet works and what it does with online content.
Video News Editing: The Remixer Game
Self-Directed CourseExplore how video editing influences your perception of news in this activity from Link TV.