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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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  • Beyond the Inverted Pyramid: Creating Alternative Story Forms

    Self-Directed Course

    Write, edit and present information that engages time-crunched readers.

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  • Brainstorming Great Ideas: Editors' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot

    How to brainstorm for breaking news, ongoing stories and enterprise, plus six keys to brainstorming.

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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 Drones in U.S. Airspace and in Your Community

    Webinar
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    June 28 Webinar

    Learn the fact to help you cover the rising use of drones in commercial airspace – by companies, law enforcement and researchers.

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  • Credibility and Social Media in Your News Organization

    Webinar

    How your news organization can create credible Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites for readers and the community.

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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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  • Easy Interactivity with Meograph: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar

    The two most viral types of media are videos and infographics. Learn how you can do both with Meograph.

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  • Effective Social Media for Small Organizations

    Webinar

    Learn ways to use social networks as a reporting tool and to promote your work, even if you’re a one-, two- or three-man-band.

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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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  • Getting Started With Google Fusion Tables

    Webinar

    Learn how Fusion Tables can help you host, visualize and publish your data as maps, charts and timelines.

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  • How Location-Based Services are Changing the News

    Webinar

    An ONAvation Webinar: From Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite and Buzz to countless other services, learn how location can help you do innovative journalism online.

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  • Hyperlocal News Startups: What's Working? What's Not?

    Webinar

    A host of high-powered startups are joining thousands of independent local news blogs in the U.S. How does local news online add up?

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  • Illustrating the Story: Comics and Illustrated Journalism

    Webinar

    Use new forms of visual storytelling, including comics and multimedia illustration, to engage audiences.

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  • Innovation on the Front Lines of Journalism

    Webinar

    Harness the latest digital technology – including blogs, social media and databases -- to take control of your future in journalism.

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  • Interactive Storytelling with Zeega: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar
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    May 23 Webinar

    Learn to easily tell beautiful immersive stories combining personal content with media curated from across the web.

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  • Introduction to Ethical Decision-Making

    Self-Directed Course

    Ethics is not separate from the daily work of journalists. Learn the process before you're faced with a tough call on deadline.

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  • Journalism and Trauma

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn how to compassionately interview victims and how covering traumatic events affects you.

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  • Managing Your Journalism Career and Skills

    Webinar

    Boost your job-hunting practices to find that new job or your next one.

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  • Math for Journalists: Help With Numbers

    Self-Directed Course

    Conquer your fear of numbers and handle arithmetic accurately with the math tools essential for all journalists.

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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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  • On the Beat: Covering Cops and Crime

    Self-Directed Course

    Techniques for navigating police departments and mining the beat for story ideas.

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  • Reporting and Publishing News with Mobile Tools

    Webinar

    Build your mobile newsgathering and publishing operation using your smartphone, apps, gear and other strategies.

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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: 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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  • Targeting New Audiences: Finding Your Niche

    Self-Directed Course

    Starting a new print publication or Web site? Explore ways to get to know your audience and get your ideas off the ground.

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  • Telling Stories with Sound

    Self-Directed Course

    Explore how to create effective narratives by gathering, processing and mixing audio.

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  • The Be a Reporter Game

    Self-Directed Course

    Practice the basics of newsgathering -- asking questions, verifying information -- while racing against a deadline.

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  • The Craft of Multimedia Journalism

    Webinar

    Understand how to use digital storytelling forms to effectively tell your story. Part of the Essential Skills for the Digital Journalist Webinar Series

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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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  • 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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  • Using Analytics to Drive Website Success

    Webinar

    It's easy to get lost in numbers. Here are some tips to stay focused and effective.

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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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  • دوره آموزشی روزنامه نگاری و تروما

    Self-Directed Course

    بیاموزید چگونه با قربانیان دردمندانه مصاحبه کنید و چگونه رویدادهای دلخراشی را که روی شما تاثیر روانی بر جا می گذارد، پوشش خبری دهید.

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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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