100 Ideas to Make Your Journalism Better
WebinarImprove your writing, your digital skills, your visual storytelling and more in this special Poynter faculty event to celebrate our 100th Webinar.
A Guide to Difficult Conversations
WebinarYou can’t be too nice to have a tough conversation. Learn how to be strategic and carry out difficult conversations with confidence.
Advanced Twitter for Journalism
WebinarTwitter is not just a source of news. Learn how it can be a platform for developing breaking news out loud.
Best Feature Ideas: SFJ’s Show and Share
WebinarLooking for fresh approaches for your storytelling? Get great ideas from the winners of the Society for Features Journalism’s 2013 awards.
Beyond the Byline: A Journalist's Guide to Personal Branding
WebinarLearn why and how to effectively build your personal brand as a freelance or full-time journalist.
Coaching Writers: 7 Questions Every Editor Should Ask
WebinarCoaching a writer requires that you know how they work. This Webinar explains how to interview a writer in order to coach her effectively.
Conquering Writer's Block: Help! for Writers
WebinarKick-start some of your most creative work with these solutions to help you overcome writer's block.
Covering Drones in U.S. Airspace and in Your Community
WebinarHow to tackle the privacy and safety issues around the rising use of drones by law enforcement, companies and others.
Covering Hydraulic Fracking and Its Impact on Economy and Environment
WebinarLearn the basics of hydraulic fracturing and oil and gas boom that is sweeping the U.S.
Covering Sexual Assault
WebinarExamine how to balance the needs of vulnerable stakeholders against your duty to inform the public.
Curating Content: How to Aggregate Coverage
WebinarHow do make sense of the news on the Web for your readers? Get the tools you need to curate content quickly, accurately and effectively.
Document Mining with Overview: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarWe'll show you how to use Overview to quickly sort though hundreds, or hundreds of thousands, of documents to find the story.
Drones for Reporting and Newsgathering: The Promise and the Peril
WebinarLearn about the kind of drones that are out there that a journalist could use for their newsgathering process.
Engaging Storytelling for Mobile Devices and Tablets
WebinarGet a heads up on what it takes to engage readers using touch screens--using location, tap, touch and interactivity for tablets and mobile devices.
Follow The Money: Fraud and the Affordable Care Act
WebinarGet the tools and information you need to uncover fraud and make your stories complete, balanced and useful to your audience.
Getting Beyond Stereotypes: Better Disability Journalism
WebinarThe disability community has its own stories. Discover what your audience has been missing.
Google Research Tools: Search, Trends, Correlate and Public Data Explorer
WebinarGoogle's search tools will help you research stories and discover new trends.
How and When to Shoot Video with a Smartphone
WebinarWhether you find yourself in a breaking news situation without a camera or never use a camera, you can make professional news video with your smartphone.
How to Cover the Business of Agribusiness
WebinarFrom food safety to farms to energy and pollution, agribusiness is one of the biggest topics in the world. Get the sources and resources you need to tackle the topic.
How to Power Your Reporting With Social Media
WebinarExplore the best ways to be a digital reporter in the digital age. We’ll show you how to be as confident working a beat from your laptop as you are walking a beat in your community.
How to Use Detail in Your Writing
WebinarHow to collect and select details that turn routine reporting into powerful storytelling.
How to Use Housing Data on Your Beat
WebinarIn this free Webinar, learn how to unlock stories about crime, culture, politics and much more by learning to use housing metrics available for free online.
How to Work with Campaign Finance Data
WebinarLearn how to use and understand campaign finance data, including producing simple data visualizations and maps using free tools.
How to Write Short and Well
WebinarLearn the most reliable tools for writing short – across media platforms – and well.
Improve Your Storytelling Through Restorative Narrative
WebinarAn introduction to Restorative Narratives -- a storytelling genre that has the potential to strengthen media coverage & communities.
Interviewing: The Art of the Two-Way Conversation
WebinarFrom newscasts to podcasts, learn how to turn formal, stiff and boring interviews into lively and complete stories.
Leadership Advice for Our Age of Disruption, Misperception and Outlandish Expectations
WebinarNothing abides: Get some leadership advice from the ancient Greeks for our age of disruption, misperception and outlandish expectations.
LinkedIn for Journalists and Educators
WebinarLearn how to find potential sources, break news stories and promote your content on LinkedIn.
Making a Side Hustle Work for Your Journalism Career
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November 17 WebinarLearn to plan, execute and promote a side project (at work or after hours) that will feed your creativity and further your career.
Making Fun and Innovation Happen on a Shoestring
WebinarWorkplace fun and innovation aren’t luxuries — they’re things every newsroom should focus on to stay competitive and keep employees happy
Making the Case for Fact-Checking in Your Newsroom
WebinarThe effectiveness of fact-checking and how you can use this information to justify implementing or keeping fact-checking at your news organization.
Managing the Big Project
WebinarFrom vetting the idea to finding collaborators to coaching the story: How to produce "big" stories worthy of your time and your audience's.
Mastering Revision: Polish Your Writing Like a Pro
WebinarLearn practical ways to make revision painless and boost the power of your stories.
Medicare Reform: Reporting Past the Rhetoric
WebinarA how-to-guide on going beyond the sound bites in covering Medicare reform.
Money in Politics: Investigating Campaign Finance in Your State and Nationally
WebinarInvestigate political money in your state or nationally using www.followthemoney.org.
Navigating Copyright and Fair Use Issues in an Open-Source World
WebinarLearn how to use copyright as a publishing tool, rather than as a reason to not use others’ content.
NewsU at 10: Top Lessons from a Decade of E-Learning
WebinarJoin our birthday celebration as we share the most valuable lessons from 10 years of News University teaching.
Newswriting for the Web: Words That Work Online on Deadline
WebinarLearn how to craft effective news writing for the fast-paced scanning habits of online readers.
Online and Social Media Corrections: When, Why and How
WebinarHow should you correct a tweet or online article? Get practical guidance on the best ways to offer corrections in a multi-platform, digital world.
Periscopes, Peaches and Yaks: What's Next in Social Media
WebinarLearn about the latest crop of social networks, what to look for when you're trying new ones, and how to evaluate if they're even worth your time.