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.
Adding Verbs with Verve and Volume to Your Writing
WebinarTune up verbs to make writing sing and dance.
Becoming a More Effective Reporter: Telling Untold Stories (Oct 2013)
Online Group SeminarApply by
September 30 for this Online Group SeminarImprove your ability to find and tell stories off the beaten path in your community.
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.
Best Feature Ideas: AASFE’s Show & Steal
WebinarTake away the creative ideas from the country’s best arts and features coverage.
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.
Clarity is Key: Making Writing Clean and Concise
WebinarLearn to clarify and streamline your writing by using straightforward words and stronger nouns and verbs.
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.
Conquering Writer's Block: Help! for Writers
WebinarKick-start some of your most creative work with these solutions to help you overcome writer's block.
Copyright Law and Fair Use for Journalists (Beta)
Self-Directed CourseThis course will help journalists understand what constitutes fair use of content, particularly online content, and debunk copyright myths.
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
WebinarSign up now for the
June 28 WebinarHow to cover the rising use of drones in commercial airspace – by companies, law enforcement and others.
Covering Sexual Assault
WebinarExamine how to balance the needs of vulnerable stakeholders against your duty to inform the public.
Covering War at Home
Seminar SnapshotStrategies for telling the stories of soldiers, their families and citizens on the home front.
Discover Your Missing Links: The Semantic Web
WebinarAn ONAvation Webinar replay: Go beyond tagging and build rich connections among all your content: articles, images, motion and audio.
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.
Ethics and Credibility of Breaking News Online
WebinarBe first. Be the best. Be credible. Develop standards for reporting breaking news in digital platforms.
Finding the Heart of the Story
Seminar SnapshotLearn essential writing techniques to produce compelling, sharply focused stories with strong underlying themes.
Five Steps to Stronger Data Visualization
WebinarLearn how well-edited data can reveal patterns and connections to a bigger picture.
Freedom of Information
Self-Directed CourseUse FOI laws to strengthen your reporting with public documents.
Generating Story Ideas: Seeing Stories All Around You
Seminar SnapshotLearn proven techniques to recognize and refine your best story ideas.
Get Me Rewrite: The Craft of Revision
Self-Directed CourseReview your work with fresh eyes to fine-tune awkward passages.
Handling Race and Ethnicity
Self-Directed CourseExamine whether and how to use racial and ethnic descriptions in news stories.
Help! for Writers
Self-Directed CourseUnlock more than 200 solutions to some of the most common problems writers face in any platform or genre.
How to Use Detail in Your Writing
WebinarHow to collect and select details that turn routine reporting into powerful storytelling.
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.
Introduction to Ethical Decision-Making
Self-Directed CourseEthics is not separate from the daily work of journalists. Learn the process before you're faced with a tough call on deadline.
Journalism and Trauma
Self-Directed CourseLearn how to compassionately interview victims and how covering traumatic events affects you.
Jumpstarting Your Freelance Career: Marketing and Business Basics
WebinarHow to find contacts, target your pitch and build your business in the freelance market.
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.
Managing Your Journalism Career and Skills
WebinarBoost your job-hunting practices to find that new job or your next one.
Mastering Revision: Polish Your Writing Like a Pro
WebinarLearn practical ways to make revision painless and boost the power of your stories.
Mastering the Craft of Revision
Seminar SnapshotLearn revision techniques that will help you identify problems in your stories and make the changes, big and small, that make your writing stand out.
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.
