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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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  • Best of Photojournalism: What Makes a Winner

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Go behind the scenes of the annual National Press Photographers Association contest to explore the elements of award-winning photojournalism.

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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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  • Coaching Tomorrow's Journalists

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Working with teen journalists can be a challenge. Find the assistance and resources you need in this course.

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  • Community Service Photojournalism: Contest Lessons Part 1

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Analyze three approaches to telling visual stories that connect with readers. Based on 2005 ASNE Contest

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  • Community Service Photojournalism: Contest Lessons Part 2

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Examine four approaches: localizing stories, watchdog photojournalism, connecting with under-covered communities and commentary through photo columns. Based on 2006 ASNE Contest

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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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  • 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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  • Face-to-Face: Lessons of an International Backpack Journalist

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: $9.95

    Learn how a backpack journalist survives and reports in such places as Haiti, Juarez Mexico and East Africa.

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  • First Amendment for the High School Journalist

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Gain a better understanding of freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

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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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  • Getting Your First Job in Journalism (2009)

    Webinar
    Price: $14.95

    Job-hunting techniques to prepare new college graduates for a challenging job market.

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  • Improve Your Teaching With Case Studies

    Webinar
    Price: $9.95

    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
    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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  • 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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  • Managing Your Journalism Career and Skills

    Webinar
    Price: $14.95

    Boost your job-hunting practices to find that new job or your next one.

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

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  • Newsgathering Law & Liability: A Guide for Reporting

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: 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.

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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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  • On the Beat: Covering Education

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: Free

    Learn how to find your way around the U.S. education system: the standards, the people and the protocol.

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  • Remaking Student Media, Inside and Out

    Webinar
    Sign up now for the
    June 20 Webinar
    Price: $9.95

    Explore four key steps for remaking student media.

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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 With Video: Basics for Print Journalists

    Webinar
    Price: $24.95

    Basic video techniques and principles for print reporters and still photographers making the transition to multimedia storytelling.

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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 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 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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  • 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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  • 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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