100 Ideas to Make Your Journalism Better
WebinarPrice: $24.95Improve your writing, your digital skills, your visual storytelling and more in this special Poynter faculty event to celebrate our 100th Webinar.
Beyond the Inverted Pyramid: Creating Alternative Story Forms
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Write, edit and present information that engages time-crunched readers.
Cleaning Your Copy: Grammar, Style and More
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Finding and fixing the most common style, grammar and punctuation errors.
Coaching Tomorrow's Journalists
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Working with teen journalists can be a challenge. Find the assistance and resources you need in this course.
Covering Climate Change
Self-Directed CoursePrice: FreeLearn 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 Sexual Assault
WebinarPrice: FreeExamine how to balance the needs of vulnerable stakeholders against your duty to inform the public.
Covering Veterans' Issues: What Happens When Soldiers Come Home
WebinarPrice: $9.95Unravel the web of state and federal programs for veterans and analyze their effectiveness.
Covering War at Home
Seminar SnapshotPrice:Strategies for telling the stories of soldiers, their families and citizens on the home front.
Document Mining with Overview: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarPrice: 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.
First Amendment for the High School Journalist
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Gain a better understanding of freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
Freedom of Information
Self-Directed CoursePrice: This course is free to registered users of News University.Use FOI laws to strengthen your reporting with public documents.
Get Me Rewrite: The Craft of Revision
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Review your work with fresh eyes to fine-tune awkward passages.
Getting Your First Job in Journalism (2009)
WebinarPrice: $14.95Job-hunting techniques to prepare new college graduates for a challenging job market.
Handling Race and Ethnicity
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Examine whether and how to use racial and ethnic descriptions in news stories.
Interactive Storytelling with Zeega: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarPrice: This $29.95 Webinar is free thanks to the support of the American Press Institute and Knight Foundation.Learn to easily tell beautiful immersive stories combining personal content with media curated from across the web.
Introduction to Ethical Decision-Making
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Ethics is not separate from the daily work of journalists. Learn the process before you're faced with a tough call on deadline.
Introduction to Sports Reporting
Self-Directed CoursePrice: $14.95Find and tell engaging stories from sports events.
Journalism and Trauma
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Learn how to compassionately interview victims and how covering traumatic events affects you.
Journalism Fundamentals: Craft & Values
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Explore essential journalism skills and principles in this introduction to producing news.
Language Primer: Basics of Grammar, Punctuation and Word Use (Alcatel-Lucent Edition)
Self-Directed CoursePrice: $12.95This primer on the basics of writing and composition is for participants enrolled in the Alcatel-Lucent Effective Writing Certificate Program.
Language Primer: Basics of Grammar, Punctuation and Word Use (Ohio University Edition)
Self-Directed CoursePrice: $12.95This primer on the basics of writing and composition is for students enrolled in J202 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Language Primer: Basics of Grammar, Punctuation and Word Use (University of Wisconsin Edition)
Self-Directed CoursePrice: $12.95This primer on the basics of writing and composition is for students enrolled in J202 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Language Primer: Basics of Grammar, Punctuation and Word Use (University of Wisconsin Spring 2013 Edition)
Self-Directed CoursePrice: $12.95This primer on the basics of writing and composition is for students enrolled in J202 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Lousy Listeners: How to Avoid Being One
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Better listeners are better leaders. Learn how to break bad listening habits and improve your listening skills.
Math for Journalists: Help With Numbers
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Conquer your fear of numbers and handle arithmetic accurately with the math tools essential for all journalists.
New Sources of Digital Content: API Training
Seminar SnapshotPrice: 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.
News Sense: The Building Blocks of News
Self-Directed CoursePrice:What makes an idea or event a news story? Explore the who, what, when, where, why and how of news.
Newsgathering Law & Liability: A Guide for Reporting
Self-Directed CoursePrice: This $29.95 course is **FREE** thanks to generous grants from the Harnisch Foundation and The Cutts Foundation.Gather and report news more effectively while avoiding legal liability.
On the Beat: Covering Cops and Crime
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Techniques for navigating police departments and mining the beat for story ideas.
On the Beat: Covering Education
Self-Directed CoursePrice: FreeLearn how to find your way around the U.S. education system: the standards, the people and the protocol.
On the Beat: Writing Obituaries
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Learn to write engaging, informative and accurate obituaries...and love it!
Online Project Development: Part 1
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Examine the five steps for creating successful Web projects and how they were used in award-winning work.
Religion, Culture and Society: Getting Beyond the Cliches
Self-Directed CoursePrice: 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.
Remaking Student Media, Inside and Out
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June 20 WebinarPrice: $9.95Explore four key steps for remaking student media.
Reporting on Sexual Violence
Self-Directed CoursePrice: This $29.95 course is free thanks to a grant by National Sexual Violence Resource CenterExplore strategies and statistics to help you tell powerful stories with context, accuracy and sensitivity.
Sources, Verification and Credibility
Self-Directed CoursePrice: This $24.95 course is FREE thanks to funding support from the Radio Television Digital News Foundation, the Robert R. McCormick Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.Analyze and judge the reliability of news and information
Telling Stories with Sound
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Explore how to create effective narratives by gathering, processing and mixing audio.
The Be a Reporter Game
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Practice the basics of newsgathering -- asking questions, verifying information -- while racing against a deadline.
The Community Journalism Series: Contributing to a Local Publication
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Explore essential journalism skills and principles in this introduction to producing news.
The Community Journalism Series: Strategies for Managing Local Contributors
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Learn how your site can benefit from community contributors and build your plan for recruiting, training and managing these content providers.