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  • Language Primer: Basics of Grammar, Punctuation and Word Use (University of Scranton, Spring 2013)

    Self-Directed Course

    Practice the fundamentals of grammar and composition so you can write with greater confidence.

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  • پنج مرحله تولید گزارش چند رسانه ای

    Self-Directed Course

    با مراحل اولیه مورد نیاز برای سازماندهی یک گزارش به سبک چند رسانه ای آشنا شوید

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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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  • Adding Verbs with Verve and Volume to Your Writing

    Webinar

    Tune up verbs to make writing sing and dance.

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  • Advanced Twitter for Journalism

    Webinar

    Twitter is not just a source of news. Learn how it can be a platform for developing breaking news out loud.

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  • Anatomy of a Multimedia News Organization

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn how an online-only news organization functions as a business by exploring its structure, departments and business model.

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  • Anatomy of a Newspaper: Understanding the Business

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn how a newspaper functions as a business by exploring the structure of its departments -- from newsroom to advertising to circulation.

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  • Becoming a More Effective Reporter: Telling Untold Stories (Oct 2013)

    Online Group Seminar
    Apply by
    September 30 for this Online Group Seminar

    Improve your ability to find and tell stories off the beaten path in your community.

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  • Becoming a More Effective Writer: Clarity and Organization (June 2012)

    Online Group Seminar

    Build the reporting and writing habits you need to organize your information better and write more clearly.

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  • Becoming a More Effective Writer: Clarity and Organization (June 2013)

    Online Group Seminar
    Apply by
    May 21 for this Online Group Seminar

    Build the reporting and writing habits you need to organize your information better and write more clearly.

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  • Best Feature Ideas: AASFE’s Show & Steal

    Webinar

    Take away the creative ideas from the country’s best arts and features coverage.

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  • Best of Photojournalism: What Makes a Winner

    Self-Directed Course

    Go behind the scenes of the annual National Press Photographers Association contest to explore the elements of award-winning photojournalism.

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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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  • Build and Engage Local Audiences Online

    Self-Directed Course

    Get to know your local online audience and see what the power of local content can mean for you.

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  • Clarity is Key: Making Writing Clean and Concise

    Webinar

    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

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

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  • Coaching Tomorrow's Journalists

    Self-Directed Course

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

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  • Coaching Writers: Editors' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn strategies, techniques and questions that can help you coach writers to produce stories that are clear, focused, powerful and compelling.

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  • Community Service Photojournalism: Contest Lessons Part 1

    Self-Directed Course

    Analyze three approaches to telling visual stories that connect with readers. Based on 2005 ASNE Contest

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  • Conquering Writer's Block: Help! for Writers

    Webinar

    Kick-start some of your most creative work with these solutions to help you overcome writer's block.

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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 Climate Change

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn the science and policies behind climate change and pick up the reporting and writing skills needed to tell stronger stories about global climate change.

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  • Covering Sexual Assault

    Webinar

    Examine how to balance the needs of vulnerable stakeholders against your duty to inform the public.

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  • Covering the Green Jobs Debate

    Webinar

    Tell stronger stories about the impact of green jobs in your community.

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  • Covering War at Home

    Seminar Snapshot

    Strategies for telling the stories of soldiers, their families and citizens on the home front.

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  • Covering Water Quality: What You Need to Know

    Self-Directed Course

    Understand the complex environmental issues and find resources to tell compelling stories.

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  • Dealing With Difficult Conversations

    Self-Directed Course

    From preparation to follow up, explore how you can conduct tough conversations with confidence.

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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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  • 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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  • Environmental Reporting: An Introduction

    Self-Directed Course

    Do better environmental journalism, from idea generation to publication, with confidence and context.

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  • Face-to-Face: "Testing Grounds"

    Seminar Snapshot

    Reporters Kris Hundley and Kathleen Flynn discuss their experience in producing "Testing Grounds," an award-winning story about drug testing in India.

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  • Face-to-Face: Lessons of an International Backpack Journalist

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn how a backpack journalist survives and reports in such places as Haiti, Juarez Mexico and East Africa.

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  • Face-to-Face: Reporting on Revolution

    Seminar Snapshot

    See Egypt through the eyes of independent journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous.

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  • Face-to-Face: Reports From Gaza and The West Bank

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn methods on how to report from the West Bank or Gaza Strip from a veteran journalist.

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  • Face-to-Face: Undercover in Bahrain

    Seminar Snapshot

    Mae Ying Welsh discusses how she produced the award-winning documentary "Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark"

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  • Finding the Heart of the Story

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn essential writing techniques to produce compelling, sharply focused stories with strong underlying themes.

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  • First Amendment for the High School Journalist

    Self-Directed Course

    Gain a better understanding of freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

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  • Five Steps to Multimedia Storytelling

    Self-Directed Course

    Discover the basic steps necessary to organize a story in a multimedia format.

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  • Flash for Journalists: 10 Things You Need to Know (2009 edition)

    Webinar

    Learn what Flash is, what it can do and how it works to create multimedia storytelling. Plus handout.

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