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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 Communities in a Time of Change: Reporting With Patchwork Nation

    Webinar

    Go beyond the red/blue metaphors and get new tools for understanding your audience and the nation.

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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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  • 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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  • Discover Your Missing Links: The Semantic Web

    Webinar

    An ONAvation Webinar replay: Go beyond tagging and build rich connections among all your content: articles, images, motion and audio.

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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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  • 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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  • How to Work with Campaign Finance Data

    Webinar

    Learn how to use and understand campaign finance data, including producing simple data visualizations and maps using free tools.

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  • How to Write Short and Well

    Webinar

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

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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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  • Improve Your Teaching With Case Studies

    Webinar

    Learn how the case method can train your students to think for themselves, based on the experiences of the Knight Case Studies Initiative.

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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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  • Jumpstarting Your Freelance Career: Marketing and Business Basics

    Webinar

    How to find contacts, target your pitch and build your business in the freelance market.

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  • Managing Comments on Your News Site

    Webinar

    Tools to learn what your readers think about comments and ways to encourage civil conversations on your site.

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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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  • News Site Credibility: Whom Do Readers Trust?

    Webinar

    How much do readers trust news articles? User comments? Tweets? Photos? Learn from the findings of a recent APME study.

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  • Newswriting for the Web: Words That Work Online on Deadline

    Webinar

    Learn how to craft effective news writing for the fast-paced scanning habits of online readers.

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  • Order of the Word: The Secret to Powerful Prose

    Webinar

    How to put words in the right place at the right time for maximum effect. With Poynter's Roy Peter Clark.

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  • Political Fact-Checking: Tips and Tricks for the 2012 Election

    Webinar

    Learn tips and tricks about political fact-checking from the editor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning website, PolitiFact.

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  • Preventing Plagiarism and Fabrication in News Publishing

    Webinar

    Get real-world recommendations for preventing and handling issues of plagiarism.

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  • Remaking Student Media, Inside and Out

    Webinar
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    June 20 Webinar

    Explore four key steps for remaking student media.

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  • Reporting on Religion and Political Candidates

    Webinar

    Learn best practices to execute solid stories about the faith of political candidates.

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  • Shaping Your News Product to Fit the Market

    Webinar

    Learn how to make a product match market needs and understand the constant demands on your product.

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  • Short Narrative Bursts: Social Media Writing

    Webinar

    The art to lively writing in a limited space.

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  • State of the News Media (2011)

    Webinar

    Get an analysis of key trends facing print, broadcast and online from the State of the News Media 2011 report .

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  • State of the News Media 2012

    Webinar

    Get the latest on the health of American journalism from the annual report by The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.

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  • State of the News Media 2013

    Webinar

    Get the latest on the health of American journalism from the annual report by The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.

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  • The Powerful Effects of Short Writing

    Webinar

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

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

    Webinar

    Learn four language concepts that will improve your reading and writing forever with our special National Grammar Day Webinar.

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  • Trauma Awareness: What Every Journalist Needs to Know

    Webinar

    Understanding trauma makes for healthier journalists and healthier journalism.

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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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  • Unpublishing Online Content: Fairness and Credibility Guidelines

    Webinar

    Prepare how you'll handle requests to unpublish online content consistent with journalistic principles of accuracy, accountability and transparency.

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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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  • What Makes a Great Blog: Principles for Success

    Webinar

    Find the characteristics common to great blogs and learn strategies for achieving them.

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  • What Makes a Pulitzer Prize Feature Story?

    Webinar

    One Pulitzer juror's observations about the difference between a good feature story and a great one.

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  • Writing for Your Website: How to Make Readers Stick

    Webinar

    Learn essential writing techniques that will make sure your content aligns with your audience’s reading habits.

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