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  • 100 Ideas to Make Your Journalism Better

    Webinar

    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

    Write, edit and present information that engages time-crunched readers.

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  • Brainstorming Great Ideas: Editors' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot

    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

    Finding and fixing the most common style, grammar and punctuation errors.

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  • Coaching Tomorrow's Journalists

    Self-Directed Course

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

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  • Coaching Writers: Editors' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn strategies, techniques and questions that can help you coach writers to produce stories that are clear, focused, powerful and compelling.

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  • Document Mining with Overview: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar

    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

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

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  • First Amendment for the High School Journalist

    Self-Directed Course

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

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  • Five Steps to Stronger Data Visualization

    Webinar

    Learn how well-edited data can reveal patterns and connections to a bigger picture.

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  • Freedom of Information

    Self-Directed Course

    Use FOI laws to strengthen your reporting with public documents.

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  • Getting Your First Job in Journalism (2009)

    Webinar

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

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  • Improve Your Teaching With Case Studies

    Webinar

    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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  • Introduction to Ethical Decision-Making

    Self-Directed Course

    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

    Find and tell engaging stories from sports events.

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  • Math for Journalists: Help With Numbers

    Self-Directed Course

    Conquer your fear of numbers and handle arithmetic accurately with the math tools essential for all journalists.

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  • News Sense: The Building Blocks of News

    Self-Directed Course

    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

    Gather and report news more effectively while avoiding legal liability.

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  • On the Beat: Covering Cops and Crime

    Self-Directed Course

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

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  • On the Beat: Covering Education

    Self-Directed Course

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

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  • Photojournalism for Non-Photojournalists

    Webinar

    Learn how to compose visually robust and newsworthy photographs regardless of how simple or complex your camera. Part of the Essential Skills for the Digital Journalist Webinar Series

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  • Remaking Student Media, Inside and Out

    Webinar
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    Four key steps for remaking student media and ideas for innovation in both education and revenue.

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  • Reporting on Sexual Violence

    Self-Directed Course

    Explore strategies and statistics to help you tell powerful stories with context, accuracy and sensitivity.

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  • Telling Stories with Sound

    Self-Directed Course

    Explore how to create effective narratives by gathering, processing and mixing audio.

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  • The Be a Reporter Game

    Self-Directed Course

    Practice the basics of newsgathering -- asking questions, verifying information -- while racing against a deadline.

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  • The Changing Roles of the Journalist

    Seminar Snapshot

    Essential skills for the changing media landscape.

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  • The Craft of Multimedia Journalism

    Webinar

    Understand how to use digital storytelling forms to effectively tell your story. Part of the Essential Skills for the Digital Journalist Webinar Series

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  • The Editor's Toolkit: Editors' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot

    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

    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

    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

    Explore how video editing influences your perception of news in this activity from Link TV.

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  • Video Storytelling with the Pros: Discover the Magic Moments in Breaking News

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn how to uncover magic moments in a breaking news video story and to use them, along with natural sound, to bring subjects to life.

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  • Video Storytelling with the Pros: Shooting for the Web

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn how the instant nature of the web affects what you do and how it differs from TV.

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  • Watching TV News: How To Be a Smarter Viewer

    Self-Directed Course

    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

    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

    چه چیزی یک خبر یا ایده را ارزش خبری می بخشد؟ عناصر اصلی خبر را بررسی کنید.

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