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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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  • Audience Growth and Digital Content Strategies: API Training

    Self-Directed Course

    Your guide to key strategies for your digital content that can help your organization improve its digital presence and grow audience.

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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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  • 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 Veterans' Issues: What Happens When Soldiers Come Home

    Webinar

    Unravel the web of state and federal programs for veterans and analyze their effectiveness.

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  • Describing Your Content: Metadata and What It’s Good For

    Webinar

    Learn how to tag your online content so users can find and filter it quickly.

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Lousy Listeners: How to Avoid Being One

    Self-Directed Course

    Better listeners are better leaders. Learn how to break bad listening habits and improve your listening skills.

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  • Making Words, Pictures and Sound Work Together

    Webinar

    Don't let text, pictures and audio compete for the viewer's attention. Learn how words and images can work together to engage your audience.

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  • Navigating Copyright and Fair Use Issues in an Open-Source World

    Webinar

    Learn how to use copyright as a publishing tool, rather than as a reason to not use others’ content.

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  • New Sources of Digital Content: API Training

    Seminar Snapshot

    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.

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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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  • Reporting on Sexual Violence

    Self-Directed Course

    Explore strategies and statistics to help you tell powerful stories with context, accuracy and sensitivity.

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  • Social Media Search: Maximizing Results

    Webinar

    Explore new social search techniques to expand your reporting and research online.

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  • Social Media: Strategies and Tools for News

    Self-Directed Course

    Explore the strategy and tools to effectively integrate social media into all aspects of your journalism--including newsgathering, verification, audience engagement and distribution.

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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 Science and Art of Story Posting: API Training

    Seminar Snapshot

    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.

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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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  • Tumblr for Journalists: Best Practices and Strategies

    Webinar

    Learn how to use Tumblr to maximize your storytelling, research and social community engagement.

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  • Understanding Internet Basics for a Better Online News Operation

    Webinar

    What every digital journalist, editor and publisher should know about how the Internet works and what it does with online content.

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  • Video News Editing: The Remixer Game

    Self-Directed Course

    Explore how video editing influences your perception of news in this activity from Link TV.

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  • Video Storytelling with the Pros: Discover the Magic Moments in Breaking News

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn how to uncover magic moments in a breaking news video story and to use them, along with natural sound, to bring subjects to life.

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  • Video Storytelling with the Pros: Doing It All Efficiently

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn how short-form techniques like sound bites, transitions, composition, clean sound and moments, can be used in long-form video storytelling.

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  • Video Storytelling with the Pros: Shooting Efficiently on Deadline

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn tips and tricks for being prepared for the unexpected during a video shoot for a story.

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  • Video Storytelling with the Pros: Shooting for the Web

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn how the instant nature of the web affects what you do and how it differs from TV.

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  • Writing Better Headlines & SEO Essentials (May 2013)

    Online Group Seminar

    In this intensive two-week course, you'll learn practical ways to write better headlines on the Web.

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  • Writing Better Headlines & SEO Essentials (September 2013)

    Online Group Seminar
    Apply by
    August 24 for this Online Group Seminar

    In this intensive two-week course, you'll learn practical ways to write better headlines on the Web.

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  • Writing for the Ear

    Self-Directed Course

    Whether you're new to audio storytelling or want to improve your radio broadcasts, podcasts, slide shows or videos, you'll learn how to tell compelling stories.

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  • Writing Headlines for the Web: 2010 Edition

    Webinar

    The mechanics of search engines and how you can write great online headlines that draw readers to your site.

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  • Writing Online Headlines: SEO and Beyond

    Self-Directed Course

    Write headlines that work everywhere online, from search results to article pages to RSS feeds to mobile apps.

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  • شبكات الإعلام الاجتماعي: استراتيجيات وأدوات للأخبار

    Self-Directed Course

    Understand the impact of social media on journalism and learn to effectively integrate social media into your newsgathering.

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