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.
Audience Growth and Digital Content Strategies: API Training
Self-Directed CoursePrice: This $34.95 course is free thanks to the support of the American Press Institute.Your guide to key strategies for your digital content that can help your organization improve its digital presence and grow audience.
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.
Conquering Writer's Block: Help! for Writers
WebinarPrice: $24.95Kick-start some of your most creative work with these solutions to help you overcome writer's block.
Content Curation and Creation with Spundge: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarPrice: 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.
Covering Child Sex Abuse: Lessons from the Sandusky Story
Seminar SnapshotPrice: Thanks to the support of our sponsor, the Robert R. McCormick Foundation, we are able to offer this $9.95 Seminar Snapshot for free.Pulitzer Prize winner Sara Ganim describes how she approached her reporting of the Penn State scandal involving former football coach Jerry Sandusky.
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.
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.
Handling Race and Ethnicity
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Examine whether and how to use racial and ethnic descriptions in news stories.
How to Work with Campaign Finance Data
WebinarPrice: $9.95Learn how to use and understand campaign finance data, including producing simple data visualizations and maps using free tools.
Interactive Storytelling with Zeega: A Digital Tools Tutorial
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May 23 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.
Journalism and Trauma
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Learn how to compassionately interview victims and how covering traumatic events affects you.
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.
Layout-driven Editing: A Seminar Snapshot
Seminar SnapshotPrice:How two newspapers implemented an innovative process in which stories are written to fit pre-designed page templates.
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.
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.
Plagiarism in the 21st Century
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $24.95Examine plagiarism in the context of today's digital publishing.
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.
Reporting on Religion and Political Candidates
WebinarPrice: $9.95Learn best practices to execute solid stories about the faith of political candidates.
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.
Social Media: Strategies and Tools for News
Self-Directed CoursePrice: $14.95Explore the strategy and tools to effectively integrate social media into all aspects of your journalism--including newsgathering, verification, audience engagement and distribution.
The Science and Art of Story Posting: 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 you can use analytics to determine how and to post content so that you can maximize your audience.
The Writer's Workbench: 50 Tools You Can Use
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Techniques to refine your storytelling and write with confidence.
This Ain’t Your Grandma’s Grammar: 4 Concepts to Improve Your Reading and Writing Forever
WebinarPrice: $9.95Learn four language concepts that will improve your reading and writing forever with our special National Grammar Day Webinar.
Trauma Awareness: What Every Journalist Needs to Know
WebinarPrice: $3.95Understanding trauma makes for healthier journalists and healthier journalism.
Using History to Write Sports
Seminar SnapshotPrice:Senior Sports Illustrated writer Alexander Wolff covers the ins and outs of writing the historic sports feature.
Video News Editing: The Remixer Game
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Explore how video editing influences your perception of news in this activity from Link TV.