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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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  • 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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  • Color in News Design

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Learn how the visual elements of color, contrast and dimension complement the written word.

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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 Difficult Stories Solo

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: $19.95

    Telling stories and staying safe as a one-man-band journalist covering stories about people in difficult situations.

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  • Disruptive Innovation and Dual Transformation: API Training

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: This $24.95 course is being offered free due to the generous support of the American Press Institute.

    This seminar snapshot from API's Transformation Tour shows how Disruptive Innovation and Dual Transformation can change the face of media business.

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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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  • E-Commerce Strategies: Digital Agency, Local Search, Local Interactives: API Training

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: This $24.95 course is being offered free, thanks to the generous support of the American Press Institute.

    Learn how increasing the scope of your digital advertising and marketing services from a simple business directory to full-service local search and interactives impacts digital-only revenue.

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  • E-Commerce Strategies: Transforming Classified Car Ads: API Training

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: This $24.95 course is being offered free, thanks to the generous support of the American Press Institute.

    In this Seminar Snapshot, learn the value of user-focused marketplace advertising and e-commerce models for generating online ad revenue.

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  • Easy Interactivity with Meograph: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar
    Price: This $29.95 Webinar is free thanks to the support of the American Press Institute and Knight Foundation.

    The two most viral types of media are videos and infographics. Learn how you can do both with Meograph.

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  • How to Work with Campaign Finance Data

    Webinar
    Price: $9.95

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

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  • Interactive Storytelling with Zeega: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar
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    May 23 Webinar
    Price: 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.

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  • Language of the Image

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Develop the visual vocabulary to analyze and discuss the journalistic value of images.

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  • Language Primer: Basics of Grammar, Punctuation and Word Use (Alcatel-Lucent Edition)

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: $12.95

    This primer on the basics of writing and composition is for participants enrolled in the Alcatel-Lucent Effective Writing Certificate Program.

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  • Language Primer: Basics of Grammar, Punctuation and Word Use (Ohio University Edition)

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: $12.95

    This primer on the basics of writing and composition is for students enrolled in J202 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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  • Language Primer: Basics of Grammar, Punctuation and Word Use (University of Wisconsin Edition)

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: $12.95

    This primer on the basics of writing and composition is for students enrolled in J202 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: $12.95

    This primer on the basics of writing and composition is for students enrolled in J202 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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  • Layout-driven Editing: A Seminar Snapshot

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price:

    How two newspapers implemented an innovative process in which stories are written to fit pre-designed page templates.

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  • Lessons from a Contest: Inside NPPA 2008: Broadcast

    Webinar
    Price: Free

    Hear the judges discuss pacing, storytelling techniques and other topics in this year's competition.

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  • Making Dull Stories Sizzle

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: $19.95

    Learn how to make a mundane assignment into a memorable video story.

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  • Mario Garcia on WSJ Tabloid Design

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: This snapshot is free for registered users of NewsU.

    Examine the tools and techniques used by the international editions of The Wall Street Journal.

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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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  • 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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  • Quick, Quality Video News Stories

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: $19.95

    Explore go-to video storytelling strategies on deadline.

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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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  • Reporting, Writing for TV and the Web: Aim for the Heart

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: $24.95

    Learn how to connect with viewers by telling powerful stories that aim for their hearts.

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  • State of the News Media (2011)

    Webinar
    Price: $9.95

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

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  • Telling Stories with Sound

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Explore how to create effective narratives by gathering, processing and mixing audio.

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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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  • Typography for News Design

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Learn the principles of working with type and get fresh ideas to make your pages pop.

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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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  • Watching TV News: How To Be a Smarter Viewer

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    There's more to being a news consumer than just watching the news. Learn to evaluate TV news and become a discriminating consumer.

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  • Writing for the Ear

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: This $29.95 course is free thanks to support by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

    Whether you're new to audio storytelling or want to improve your radio broadcasts, podcasts, slide shows or videos, you'll learn how to tell compelling stories.

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  • Writing Online Headlines: SEO and Beyond

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: $14.95

    Write headlines that work everywhere online, from search results to article pages to RSS feeds to mobile apps.

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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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