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  • 100 Ideas to Make Your Journalism Better

    Webinar
    Price: $24.95

    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
    Price:

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

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  • Brainstorming Great Ideas: Editors' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: $29.95

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

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  • Clarity is Key: Making Writing Clean and Concise

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn to clarify and streamline your writing by using straightforward words and stronger nouns and verbs.

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  • Cleaning Your Copy: Grammar, Style and More

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Finding and fixing the most common style, grammar and punctuation errors.

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  • Coaching Tomorrow's Journalists

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Working with teen journalists can be a challenge. Find the assistance and resources you need in this course.

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  • Content Curation and Creation with Spundge: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar
    Price: This $29.95 Webinar is free thanks to the support of the American Press Institute and Knight Foundation.

    Learn how Spundge helps you cover a beat, research stories, collaborate with colleagues, and create content and curated streams.

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

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    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
    Price: 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.

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  • Don’t Get Fooled Again: Best Practices for Online Verification

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    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
    Price: $29.95

    Learn how well-edited data can reveal patterns and connections to a bigger picture.

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  • Get Me Rewrite: The Craft of Revision

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Review your work with fresh eyes to fine-tune awkward passages.

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  • How to Write Short and Well

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn the most reliable tools for writing short – across media platforms – and well.

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  • Language of the Image

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Develop the visual vocabulary to analyze and discuss the journalistic value of images.

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  • Layout-driven Editing: A Seminar Snapshot

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price:

    How two newspapers implemented an innovative process in which stories are written to fit pre-designed page templates.

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  • Lousy Listeners: How to Avoid Being One

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

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

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  • Mastering the Craft of Revision

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: $45.00

    Learn revision techniques that will help you identify problems in your stories and make the changes, big and small, that make your writing stand out.

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  • Math for Journalists: Help With Numbers

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    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
    Price: $29.95

    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
    Price: 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 content contributions from members of the community and user-generated content can transform a digital media platform.

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  • On the Beat: Covering Cops and Crime

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

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

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  • Online Media Law: The Basics for Bloggers and Other Publishers

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Guidelines on copyright, defamation and privacy for anyone who publishes content online.

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  • Religion, Culture and Society: Getting Beyond the Cliches

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: 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.

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  • Reporting on Sexual Violence

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: This $29.95 course is free thanks to a grant by National Sexual Violence Resource Center

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

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  • Short Narrative Bursts: Social Media Writing

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    The art to lively writing in a limited space.

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  • Social Media and Journalism: What Works and Why

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: $14.95

    Explore current uses, roles, opportunities and challenges in social media when it combines with journalism and some possible future outcomes.

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  • Social Media: Strategies and Tools for News

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: $14.95

    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 Art and Science of Editing

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn to identify when you need to edit something, when you don’t and how to explain your changes to others.

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  • The Be a Reporter Game

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

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

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  • The Editor's Toolkit: Editors' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: $29.95

    Pick up the tips, tricks (and, yes, secrets) of successful veteran editors

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  • The Powerful Effects of Short Writing

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn the power and versatility of short writing from examples across media platforms.

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  • The Writer's Workbench: 50 Tools You Can Use

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Techniques to refine your storytelling and write with confidence.

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  • This Ain’t Your Grandma’s Grammar: 4 Concepts to Improve Your Reading and Writing Forever

    Webinar
    Price: $9.95

    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
    Price: $29.95

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

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  • Understanding and Interpreting Polls

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Find out why polling works, how to evaluate survey methods and what questions to ask about polls.

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  • Writing Headlines for the Web: 2010 Edition

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    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
    Price: $14.95

    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
    Price:

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

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