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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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  • 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 Writers: Editors' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: $29.95

    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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  • 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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  • Covering Drones in U.S. Airspace and in Your Community

    Webinar
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    June 28 Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn the fact to help you cover the rising use of drones in commercial airspace – by companies, law enforcement and researchers.

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  • Discover Your Missing Links: The Semantic Web

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

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

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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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  • Freedom of Information

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: This course is free to registered users of News University.

    Use FOI laws to strengthen your reporting with public documents.

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  • Introduction to Ethical Decision-Making

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Ethics is not separate from the daily work of journalists. Learn the process before you're faced with a tough call on deadline.

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  • Introduction to Sports Reporting

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: $14.95

    Find and tell engaging stories from sports events.

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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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  • Multimedia Tools: Your 2008 Shopping List

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn which tools you need to produce digital video, audio and still photos.

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  • Multimedia Tools: Your 2009 Shopping List

    Webinar
    Price: $24.95

    The latest video cameras, audio recorders, mobile devices and accessories you need for mobile multimedia production.

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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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  • News Sense: The Building Blocks of News

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    What makes an idea or event a news story? Explore the who, what, when, where, why and how of news.

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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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  • 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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  • 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 Changing Roles of the Journalist

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: $34.95

    Essential skills for the changing media landscape.

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  • The Community Journalism Series: Strategies for Managing Local Contributors

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Learn how your site can benefit from community contributors and build your plan for recruiting, training and managing these content providers.

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  • The Science and Art of Story Posting: 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 you can use analytics to determine how and to post content so that you can maximize your audience.

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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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  • Video News Editing: The Remixer Game

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Explore how video editing influences your perception of news in this activity from Link TV.

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  • Video Storytelling with the Pros: Discover the Magic Moments in Breaking News

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: $29.95

    Learn how to uncover magic moments in a breaking news video story and to use them, along with natural sound, to bring subjects to life.

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  • Video Storytelling with the Pros: Shooting for the Web

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: $29.95

    Learn how the instant nature of the web affects what you do and how it differs from TV.

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  • Чувство новости: конструируем историю

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Что делает из события или идеи новость? Изучите где, когда, кем, как, почему и зачем рождается новостная история.

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  • دوره آموزشی درک خبر: آشنایی با اجزای سازنده خبر

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    چه چیزی یک خبر یا ایده را ارزش خبری می بخشد؟ عناصر اصلی خبر را بررسی کنید.

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