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.
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Access Denied: Your Rights When Government Shuts Media Out
WebinarThe media has a First Amendment right to be treated without discrimination based on the content of its reporting. Do you know your rights? Find out in this FREE webinar.
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.
After the Texas Shooting: What Journalists Need to Know About Guns and Ammo
WebinarIn the wake of multiple mass shootings, learn the basics of key gun laws and the vocabulary of weapons and ammunition in this FREE webinar..
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.
Best Practices for Reporting on Mass Shootings
WebinarHope it never happens, but be prepared. Learn to cover mass shootings in a way that is least harmful to your community.
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.
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Building Trust on Facebook
WebinarSee what 14 newsrooms learned when they used their social platforms to experiment with trust-building strategies in this FREE webinar.
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 Hate and Extremism, From the Fringes to the Mainstream: An Overview from the Southern Poverty Law Center
WebinarThis FREE webinar will canvass the current hate group and antigovernment landscape, discuss how the SPLC identifies hate groups and examine key factors driving the growth of hate and extremism.
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 Mass Shootings
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May 31 WebinarHope it never happens, but be prepared. Learn to cover mass shootings in a way that is least harmful to your community, in this free webinar.
Covering Sexual Assault
WebinarExamine how to balance the needs of vulnerable stakeholders against your duty to inform the public.
Covering the American Muslim Community: Ideas and Insights to Guide Your Reporting
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May 3 WebinarA broad survey of the demographics and lived experiences of American Muslims and the current climate.
Craft Effective Direct Outreach Messages: Digital Experiences That Drive Results, Part 3
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September 19 WebinarLearn strategies for delivering digital content directly to targeted audiences with the use of newsletters and mobile messaging.
Cultivating Local News Communities with Facebook Groups
WebinarLearn best practices in building, engaging and deepening your relationship with audiences using Facebook Groups.
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.
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Democracy on Deadline: Take Your Coverage of U.S. Elections to the Next Level
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June 28 WebinarExamine current issues, trends and challenges in U.S. elections, and learn tips for effectively reporting local, state and national contests, in this free webinar.
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.
Editing Entertainment and Pop Culture Writing
WebinarStyle remains serious business, even if the topics are entertaining. Learn the difference and similarities with traditional editing.
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.
Fact-Checking 101
WebinarWhether you work behind-the-scenes with reporters or need to review your own work, here’s a process to keep sources and facts straight.
Find Stories in Data Faster and Collaborate Better with data.world: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarAdd depth to your reporting and extend the life of your stories with this digital tool.
Finding and Nurturing the Secret Stories Others Miss
WebinarLearn to look at the landscape of your writing territory with a new vision, in a webinar to help you find and develop the great stories others miss.
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.
Grow Audience Via Social Media: Digital Experiences That Drive Results, Part 4
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October 25 WebinarLearn strategies for increasing the number of followers, likes and shares on social media.
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.
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How to Write Sharper Social Headlines
WebinarBring more readers to your stories with headlines that pop on social feeds.
How to Write Short and Well
WebinarLearn the most reliable tools for writing short – across media platforms – and well.