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.
Brainstorming Great Ideas: Editors' Boot Camp
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $29.95How to brainstorm for breaking news, ongoing stories and enterprise, plus six keys to brainstorming.
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.
Coaching Writers: Editors' Boot Camp
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $29.95Learn strategies, techniques and questions that can help you coach writers to produce stories that are clear, focused, powerful and compelling.
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.
Don’t Get Fooled Again: Best Practices for Online Verification
WebinarPrice: $29.95Learn how to spot online hoaxes and verify content, images and video you find on social networks.
Ethics and Credibility of Breaking News Online
WebinarPrice: $27.95Be first. Be the best. Be credible. Develop standards for reporting breaking news in digital platforms.
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.
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.
Managing Your Journalism Career and Skills
WebinarPrice: $14.95Boost your job-hunting practices to find that new job or your next one.
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.
Navigating Copyright and Fair Use Issues in an Open-Source World
WebinarPrice: $29.95Learn how to use copyright as a publishing tool, rather than as a reason to not use others’ content.
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.
News Site Credibility: Whom Do Readers Trust?
WebinarPrice: $27.95How much do readers trust news articles? User comments? Tweets? Photos? Learn from the findings of a recent APME study.
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.
Online Advertising and News Site Credibility
WebinarPrice: $27.95Does online advertising damage the credibility of your news or your advertisers? Do readers notice? Learn from the findings of a recent APME study.
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.
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 Changing Roles of the Journalist
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $34.95Essential skills for the changing media landscape.
The Craft of Multimedia Journalism
WebinarPrice: $29.95Understand how to use digital storytelling forms to effectively tell your story. Part of the Essential Skills for the Digital Journalist Webinar Series
The Editor's Toolkit: Editors' Boot Camp
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $29.95Pick up the tips, tricks (and, yes, secrets) of successful veteran editors
The Ethical Investigator
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $24.95Being ethical doesn't mean being timid. Find out what it takes to get the great stories -- the right way.
The Science and Art of Story Posting: 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 you can use analytics to determine how and to post content so that you can maximize your audience.
This Ain’t Your Grandma’s Grammar: 4 Concepts to Improve Your Reading and Writing Forever
WebinarPrice: $9.95Learn four language concepts that will improve your reading and writing forever with our special National Grammar Day Webinar.
Tumblr for Journalists: Best Practices and Strategies
WebinarPrice: $29.95Learn how to use Tumblr to maximize your storytelling, research and social community engagement.
Video News Editing: The Remixer Game
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Explore how video editing influences your perception of news in this activity from Link TV.
Video Storytelling with the Pros: Discover the Magic Moments in Breaking News
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $29.95Learn how to uncover magic moments in a breaking news video story and to use them, along with natural sound, to bring subjects to life.
Video Storytelling with the Pros: Shooting for the Web
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $29.95Learn how the instant nature of the web affects what you do and how it differs from TV.
Watching TV News: How To Be a Smarter Viewer
Self-Directed CoursePrice:There's more to being a news consumer than just watching the news. Learn to evaluate TV news and become a discriminating consumer.