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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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  • A Guide to Difficult Conversations

    Webinar

    You 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

    Webinar

    The 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.

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  • Advanced Twitter for Journalism

    Webinar

    Twitter is not just a source of news. Learn how it can be a platform for developing breaking news out loud.

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  • After the Texas Shooting: What Journalists Need to Know About Guns and Ammo

    Webinar

    In the wake of multiple mass shootings, learn the basics of key gun laws and the vocabulary of weapons and ammunition in this FREE webinar..

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  • Best Feature Ideas: SFJ’s Show and Share

    Webinar

    Looking for fresh approaches for your storytelling? Get great ideas from the winners of the Society for Features Journalism’s 2013 awards.

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  • Best Practices for Reporting on Mass Shootings

    Webinar

    Hope it never happens, but be prepared. Learn to cover mass shootings in a way that is least harmful to your community.

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  • Beyond the Byline: A Journalist's Guide to Personal Branding

    Webinar

    Learn why and how to effectively build your personal brand as a freelance or full-time journalist.

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  • Building Trust on Facebook

    Webinar

    See what 14 newsrooms learned when they used their social platforms to experiment with trust-building strategies in this FREE webinar.

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  • Coaching Writers: 7 Questions Every Editor Should Ask

    Webinar

    Coaching a writer requires that you know how they work. This Webinar explains how to interview a writer in order to coach her effectively.

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  • Conquering Writer's Block: Help! for Writers

    Webinar

    Kick-start some of your most creative work with these solutions to help you overcome writer's block.

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  • Covering Drones in U.S. Airspace and in Your Community

    Webinar

    How to tackle the privacy and safety issues around the rising use of drones by law enforcement, companies and others.

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  • Covering Hate and Extremism, From the Fringes to the Mainstream: An Overview from the Southern Poverty Law Center

    Webinar

    This 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.

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  • Covering Hydraulic Fracking and Its Impact on Economy and Environment

    Webinar

    Learn the basics of hydraulic fracturing and oil and gas boom that is sweeping the U.S.

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  • Covering Mass Shootings

    Webinar
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    May 31 Webinar

    Hope 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.

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  • Covering Sexual Assault

    Webinar

    Examine how to balance the needs of vulnerable stakeholders against your duty to inform the public.

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  • Covering the American Muslim Community: Ideas and Insights to Guide Your Reporting

    Webinar
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    May 3 Webinar

    A broad survey of the demographics and lived experiences of American Muslims and the current climate.

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  • Craft Effective Direct Outreach Messages: Digital Experiences That Drive Results, Part 3

    Webinar
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    September 19 Webinar

    Learn strategies for delivering digital content directly to targeted audiences with the use of newsletters and mobile messaging.

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  • Cultivating Local News Communities with Facebook Groups

    Webinar

    Learn best practices in building, engaging and deepening your relationship with audiences using Facebook Groups.

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  • Curating Content: How to Aggregate Coverage

    Webinar

    How 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

    Webinar
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    June 28 Webinar

    Examine current issues, trends and challenges in U.S. elections, and learn tips for effectively reporting local, state and national contests, in this free webinar.

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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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  • Drones for Reporting and Newsgathering: The Promise and the Peril

    Webinar

    Learn about the kind of drones that are out there that a journalist could use for their newsgathering process.

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  • Editing Entertainment and Pop Culture Writing

    Webinar

    Style remains serious business, even if the topics are entertaining. Learn the difference and similarities with traditional editing.

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  • Engaging Storytelling for Mobile Devices and Tablets

    Webinar

    Get a heads up on what it takes to engage readers using touch screens--using location, tap, touch and interactivity for tablets and mobile devices.

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  • Fact-Checking 101

    Webinar

    Whether you work behind-the-scenes with reporters or need to review your own work, here’s a process to keep sources and facts straight.

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  • Find Stories in Data Faster and Collaborate Better with data.world: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar

    Add depth to your reporting and extend the life of your stories with this digital tool.

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  • Finding and Nurturing the Secret Stories Others Miss

    Webinar

    Learn 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.

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  • Follow The Money: Fraud and the Affordable Care Act

    Webinar

    Get the tools and information you need to uncover fraud and make your stories complete, balanced and useful to your audience.

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  • Getting Beyond Stereotypes: Better Disability Journalism

    Webinar

    The disability community has its own stories. Discover what your audience has been missing.

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  • Google Research Tools: Search, Trends, Correlate and Public Data Explorer

    Webinar

    Google's search tools will help you research stories and discover new trends.

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  • Grow Audience Via Social Media: Digital Experiences That Drive Results, Part 4

    Webinar
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    October 25 Webinar

    Learn strategies for increasing the number of followers, likes and shares on social media.

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  • How and When to Shoot Video with a Smartphone

    Webinar

    Whether 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.

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  • How to Cover the Business of Agribusiness

    Webinar

    From 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.

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  • How to Power Your Reporting With Social Media

    Webinar

    Explore 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.

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  • How to Use Detail in Your Writing

    Webinar

    How to collect and select details that turn routine reporting into powerful storytelling.

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  • How to Use Housing Data on Your Beat

    Webinar

    In 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.

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  • How to Work with Campaign Finance Data

    Webinar

    Learn 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

    Webinar

    Bring more readers to your stories with headlines that pop on social feeds.

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  • How to Write Short and Well

    Webinar

    Learn the most reliable tools for writing short – across media platforms – and well.

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