100 Ideas to Make Your Journalism Better
WebinarImprove your writing, your digital skills, your visual storytelling and more in this special Poynter faculty event to celebrate our 100th Webinar.
9 Ways You Drive Readers Away (And 9 Tips to Keep Them Reading)
WebinarUse these strategies to make sure the readers you've drawn in to your writing aren't driven away.
Anatomy of a Multimedia News Organization
Self-Directed CourseLearn how an online-only news organization functions as a business by exploring its structure, departments and business model.
API Transformation Tour: Content Strategies Resources and Links
Self-Directed CourseLearn about key digital content strategies and map implementation programs in this course by API and Poynter's NewsU.
Best of Photojournalism: What Makes a Winner
Self-Directed CourseGo behind the scenes of the annual National Press Photographers Association contest to explore the elements of award-winning photojournalism.
Best Practices for Working with Citizen Journalists
WebinarLearn how to best collaborate with people who contribute user-generated content to your news organization.
Beyond the Inverted Pyramid: Creating Alternative Story Forms
Self-Directed CourseWrite, edit and present information that engages time-crunched readers.
Brainstorming Great Ideas: Editors' Boot Camp
Seminar SnapshotHow to brainstorm for breaking news, ongoing stories and enterprise, plus six keys to brainstorming.
Build and Engage Local Audiences Online
Self-Directed CourseGet to know your local online audience and see what the power of local content can mean for you.
Building Effective News & Information Websites: HTML & CSS (May 2014)
Online Group SeminarThis hands-on, project-based course will help you develop web publishing skills from the ground up – no prior programming experience necessary.
Building Effective News & Information Websites: jQuery & WordPress (June 2014)
Online Group SeminarThis hands-on, project-based course will help you create interactive, dynamic websites with cutting-edge tools and techniques.
Changing Workflow to Create a Mobile First Newsroom
WebinarPreparing your newsroom to best serve the growing mobile audience.
Clarity is Key: Making Writing Clean and Concise
WebinarLearn to clarify and streamline your writing by using straightforward words and stronger nouns and verbs.
Cleaning Your Copy: Grammar, Style and More
Self-Directed CourseFinding and fixing the most common style, grammar and punctuation errors.
Cleaning Your Copy: Grammar, Style and More (McClatchy)
Self-Directed CourseFinding and fixing the most common style, grammar and punctuation errors.
Coaching Tomorrow's Journalists
Self-Directed CourseWorking with teen journalists can be a challenge. Find the assistance and resources you need in this course.
Coaching Writers: Editors' Boot Camp
Seminar SnapshotLearn strategies, techniques and questions that can help you coach writers to produce stories that are clear, focused, powerful and compelling.
Color in News Design
Self-Directed CourseLearn how the visual elements of color, contrast and dimension complement the written word.
Community Service Photojournalism: Contest Lessons Part 1
Self-Directed CourseAnalyze three approaches to telling visual stories that connect with readers. Based on 2005 ASNE Contest
Core Skills for the 21st Century Journalist
WebinarLearn what makes a journalist successful; what skills, attributes, and knowledge areas are important. Based on the findings of Poynter's 2014 report, Core Skills for the Future of Journalism
Covering Climate Change
Self-Directed CourseLearn 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 Common Core: Telling Classroom Stories
WebinarLearn the story behind Common Core and build a reporting plan to cover your state's implementation
Covering Immigration from the Border to the Heartland
WebinarLearn to tell the unfolding immigration story in your community with sensitivity, depth and context.
Covering Poverty in the Suburbs
WebinarLearn how to find and tell powerful stories about a growing class of Americans: the suburban poor.
Covering Sexual Assault
WebinarExamine how to balance the needs of vulnerable stakeholders against your duty to inform the public.
Covering the Green Jobs Debate
WebinarTell stronger stories about the impact of green jobs in your community.
Covering Water Quality: What You Need to Know
Self-Directed CourseUnderstand the complex environmental issues and find resources to tell compelling stories.
Creating Your Social Media Strategy
Online Group SeminarGet the tools, tactics and coaching you need to build your social media strategy. You'll walk away with a 100-day plan you can put to work right away for your organization.
Creating Your Social Media Strategy (AR ENG)
Online Group SeminarGet the tools, tactics and coaching you need to build your social media strategy. You'll walk away with a 100-day plan you can put to work right away for your organization.
Creating Your Social Media Strategy (July 2014)
Online Group SeminarGet the tools, tactics and coaching you need to build your social media strategy. You'll walk away with a 100-day plan you can put to work right away for your organization.
Creating Your Social Media Strategy (March 2014)
Online Group SeminarGet the tools, tactics and coaching you need to build your social media strategy. You'll walk away with a 100-day plan you can put to work right away for your organization.
Data Journalism and Mobile-Ready Visualizations with Silk.co: A Digital Tools Tutorial
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February 12 WebinarLearn to use Silk.co to quickly convert any spreadsheet into a data journalism story with publish-ready maps, charts, tables and image galleries
Dealing With Difficult Conversations
Self-Directed CourseFrom preparation to follow up, explore how you can conduct tough conversations with confidence.
Designing the Web for Democracy
WebinarLearn about testing techniques for engaging online audiences and the results of four projects on how this can be done.
Designing Your Story with Canva: A Digital Tools Tutorial
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March 5 WebinarLearn how Canva can be used to produce beautiful and effective graphics and extend the reach of your story
Develop a mobile strategy for your organization
Self-Directed CourseLearn how to identify key mobile strategies and map implementation plans for your specific organization. Learn about the rapid influence of mobile.
Digital Security for Journalists
WebinarHow safe is the information you gather? Learn how you can design a security plan to address digital threats to your sources and stories.
Drones for Reporting and Newsgathering: The Promise and the Peril
WebinarLearn about the kind of drones that are out there that a journalist could use for their newsgathering process.
E-Commerce Strategies: Deals Malls and Targeted Segments
Seminar SnapshotIn this Seminar Snapshot you will lean how to increase revenues by moving from daily deals to a deals mall and targeted segmentation.
E-Commerce Strategies: Digital Agency, Local Search, Local Interactives
Seminar SnapshotLearn 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.