100 Ideas to Make Your Journalism Better
WebinarPrice: $24.95Improve your writing, your digital skills, your visual storytelling and more in this special Poynter faculty event to celebrate our 100th Webinar.
Beyond the Inverted Pyramid: Creating Alternative Story Forms
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Write, edit and present information that engages time-crunched readers.
Cleaning Your Copy: Grammar, Style and More
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Finding and fixing the most common style, grammar and punctuation errors.
Coaching Tomorrow's Journalists
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Working with teen journalists can be a challenge. Find the assistance and resources you need in this course.
Content Curation and Creation with Spundge: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarPrice: 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.
Covering Difficult Stories Solo
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $19.95Telling stories and staying safe as a one-man-band journalist covering stories about people in difficult situations.
Covering Sexual Assault
WebinarPrice: FreeExamine how to balance the needs of vulnerable stakeholders against your duty to inform the public.
Document Mining with Overview: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarPrice: 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.
Easy Interactivity with Meograph: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarPrice: 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.
First Amendment for the High School Journalist
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Gain a better understanding of freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
Freedom of Information
Self-Directed CoursePrice: This course is free to registered users of News University.Use FOI laws to strengthen your reporting with public documents.
Getting Your First Job in Journalism (2009)
WebinarPrice: $14.95Job-hunting techniques to prepare new college graduates for a challenging job market.
Improve Your Teaching With Case Studies
WebinarPrice: $9.95Learn how the case method can train your students to think for themselves, based on the experiences of the Knight Case Studies Initiative.
Interactive Storytelling with Zeega: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarPrice: 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.
Introduction to Ethical Decision-Making
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Ethics is not separate from the daily work of journalists. Learn the process before you're faced with a tough call on deadline.
Introduction to Sports Reporting
Self-Directed CoursePrice: $14.95Find and tell engaging stories from sports events.
Journalism and Trauma
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Learn how to compassionately interview victims and how covering traumatic events affects you.
Journalism Fundamentals: Craft & Values
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Explore essential journalism skills and principles in this introduction to producing news.
Lessons from a Contest: Inside NPPA 2008: Broadcast
WebinarPrice: FreeHear the judges discuss pacing, storytelling techniques and other topics in this year's competition.
Making Dull Stories Sizzle
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $19.95Learn how to make a mundane assignment into a memorable video story.
Math for Journalists: Help With Numbers
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Conquer your fear of numbers and handle arithmetic accurately with the math tools essential for all journalists.
New Sources of Digital Content: API Training
Seminar SnapshotPrice: 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.
News Sense: The Building Blocks of News
Self-Directed CoursePrice:What makes an idea or event a news story? Explore the who, what, when, where, why and how of news.
Newsgathering Law & Liability: A Guide for Reporting
Self-Directed CoursePrice: This $29.95 course is **FREE** thanks to generous grants from the Harnisch Foundation and The Cutts Foundation.Gather and report news more effectively while avoiding legal liability.
On the Beat: Covering Cops and Crime
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Techniques for navigating police departments and mining the beat for story ideas.
On the Beat: Covering Education
Self-Directed CoursePrice: FreeLearn how to find your way around the U.S. education system: the standards, the people and the protocol.
Remaking Student Media, Inside and Out
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June 20 WebinarPrice: $9.95Explore four key steps for remaking student media.
Reporting on Sexual Violence
Self-Directed CoursePrice: This $29.95 course is free thanks to a grant by National Sexual Violence Resource CenterExplore strategies and statistics to help you tell powerful stories with context, accuracy and sensitivity.
Reporting, Writing for TV and the Web: Aim for the Heart
Self-Directed CoursePrice: $24.95Learn how to connect with viewers by telling powerful stories that aim for their hearts.
Social Media and Journalism: What Works and Why
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $14.95Explore current uses, roles, opportunities and challenges in social media when it combines with journalism and some possible future outcomes.
Social Media and Your 2012 Election Coverage
WebinarPrice: $9.95Learn how political campaigns are using social media and what you need to know to deliver the coverage your community needs.
Social Media: Strategies and Tools for News
Self-Directed CoursePrice: $14.95Explore the strategy and tools to effectively integrate social media into all aspects of your journalism--including newsgathering, verification, audience engagement and distribution.
State of the News Media (2011)
WebinarPrice: $9.95Get an analysis of key trends facing print, broadcast and online from the State of the News Media 2011 report .
State of the News Media 2012
WebinarPrice: $10.95Get the latest on the health of American journalism from the annual report by The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.
State of the News Media 2013
WebinarPrice: $10.95Get the latest on the health of American journalism from the annual report by The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Targeting New Audiences: Finding Your Niche
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Starting a new print publication or Web site? Explore ways to get to know your audience and get your ideas off the ground.
Telling Stories with Sound
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Explore how to create effective narratives by gathering, processing and mixing audio.
The Be a Reporter Game
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Practice the basics of newsgathering -- asking questions, verifying information -- while racing against a deadline.
The Community Journalism Series: Contributing to a Local Publication
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Explore essential journalism skills and principles in this introduction to producing news.
The Community Journalism Series: Strategies for Managing Local Contributors
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Learn how your site can benefit from community contributors and build your plan for recruiting, training and managing these content providers.