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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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  • Brainstorming Great Ideas: Editors' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: $29.95

    How to brainstorm for breaking news, ongoing stories and enterprise, plus six keys to brainstorming.

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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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  • Describing Your Content: Metadata and What It’s Good For

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn how to tag your online content so users can find and filter it quickly.

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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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  • Don’t Get Fooled Again: Best Practices for Online Verification

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn how to spot online hoaxes and verify content, images and video you find on social networks.

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  • Get Me Rewrite: The Craft of Revision

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Review your work with fresh eyes to fine-tune awkward passages.

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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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  • 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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  • Lousy Listeners: How to Avoid Being One

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Better listeners are better leaders. Learn how to break bad listening habits and improve your listening skills.

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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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  • Mastering the Craft of Revision

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: $45.00

    Learn revision techniques that will help you identify problems in your stories and make the changes, big and small, that make your writing stand out.

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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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  • Navigating Copyright and Fair Use Issues in an Open-Source World

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn how to use copyright as a publishing tool, rather than as a reason to not use others’ content.

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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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  • 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
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    Techniques for navigating police departments and mining the beat for story ideas.

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  • Online Media Law: The Basics for Bloggers and Other Publishers

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Guidelines on copyright, defamation and privacy for anyone who publishes content online.

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  • Religion, Culture and Society: Getting Beyond the Cliches

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: Thanks to a grant from the Ford Foundation, this course is available free of charge to registered users at NewsU.

    Religion intersects nearly every story you cover. Learn how to tell those stories with greater context, skill and thoughfulness.

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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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  • Short Narrative Bursts: Social Media Writing

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    The art to lively writing in a limited space.

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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 Editor's Toolkit: Editors' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: $29.95

    Pick up the tips, tricks (and, yes, secrets) of successful veteran editors

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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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  • Tumblr for Journalists: Best Practices and Strategies

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn how to use Tumblr to maximize your storytelling, research and social community engagement.

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  • Understanding and Interpreting Polls

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Find out why polling works, how to evaluate survey methods and what questions to ask about polls.

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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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