100 Ideas to Make Your Journalism Better
WebinarPrice: $24.95Improve your writing, your digital skills, your visual storytelling and more in this special Poynter faculty event to celebrate our 100th Webinar.
Beyond the Inverted Pyramid: Creating Alternative Story Forms
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Write, edit and present information that engages time-crunched readers.
Cleaning Your Copy: Grammar, Style and More
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Finding and fixing the most common style, grammar and punctuation errors.
Community Service Photojournalism: Contest Lessons Part 2
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Examine four approaches: localizing stories, watchdog photojournalism, connecting with under-covered communities and commentary through photo columns. Based on 2006 ASNE Contest
Content Curation and Creation with Spundge: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarPrice: This $29.95 Webinar is free thanks to the support of the American Press Institute and Knight Foundation.Learn how Spundge helps you cover a beat, research stories, collaborate with colleagues, and create content and curated streams.
Covering Climate Change
Self-Directed CoursePrice: FreeLearn the science and policies behind climate change and pick up the reporting and writing skills needed to tell stronger stories about global climate change.
Covering Communities in a Time of Change: Reporting With Patchwork Nation
WebinarPrice: $9.95Go beyond the red/blue metaphors and get new tools for understanding your audience and the nation.
Covering Mental Health Issues and the Recession
WebinarPrice: Thanks to the support of our sponsor, the Robert R. McCormick Foundation, we are able to offer this $29.95 Webinar free.How to tell stories about the effect of the recession on the mental health of individuals, families and communities.
Covering the Green Jobs Debate
WebinarPrice: $9.95Tell stronger stories about the impact of green jobs in your community.
Covering Veterans' Issues: What Happens When Soldiers Come Home
WebinarPrice: $9.95Unravel the web of state and federal programs for veterans and analyze their effectiveness.
Document Mining with Overview: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarPrice: 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.
Freedom of Information
Self-Directed CoursePrice: This course is free to registered users of News University.Use FOI laws to strengthen your reporting with public documents.
Get Me Rewrite: The Craft of Revision
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Review your work with fresh eyes to fine-tune awkward passages.
Giving Local Stories a Global Context
WebinarPrice: $9.95Learn the tools, techniques and resources that will give you an edge in covering the global dimension of stories in your back yard.
Handling Race and Ethnicity
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Examine whether and how to use racial and ethnic descriptions in news stories.
How to Work with Campaign Finance Data
WebinarPrice: $9.95Learn how to use and understand campaign finance data, including producing simple data visualizations and maps using free tools.
Interactive Storytelling with Zeega: A Digital Tools Tutorial
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May 23 WebinarPrice: 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.
International Reporting Basics: What You Need to Know Before You Go
Self-Directed CoursePrice: FreeLearn how to plan and pack for your trip, and how to gather information and stay safe once you arrive.
Lousy Listeners: How to Avoid Being One
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Better listeners are better leaders. Learn how to break bad listening habits and improve your listening skills.
Multimedia Reporting: Covering Breaking News
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Explore the groundbreaking work of six sites, and prepare yourself and your newsroom for deadline coverage.
Multimedia Tools: Your 2009 Shopping List
WebinarPrice: $24.95The latest video cameras, audio recorders, mobile devices and accessories you need for mobile multimedia production.
New Sources of Digital Content: API Training
Seminar SnapshotPrice: 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.
News Sense: The Building Blocks of News
Self-Directed CoursePrice:What makes an idea or event a news story? Explore the who, what, when, where, why and how of news.
Plagiarism in the 21st Century
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $24.95Examine plagiarism in the context of today's digital publishing.
Religion, Culture and Society: Getting Beyond the Cliches
Self-Directed CoursePrice: 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.
Reporting on Religion and Political Candidates
WebinarPrice: $9.95Learn best practices to execute solid stories about the faith of political candidates.
Reporting on Sexual Violence
Self-Directed CoursePrice: This $29.95 course is free thanks to a grant by National Sexual Violence Resource CenterExplore strategies and statistics to help you tell powerful stories with context, accuracy and sensitivity.
Reporting on the Euro: What Everyone Needs to Know
WebinarPrice: $9.95Learn how the euro works and how the current crisis affects the dollar and other world markets.
Reporting With Video: Basics for Print Journalists
WebinarPrice: $24.95Basic video techniques and principles for print reporters and still photographers making the transition to multimedia storytelling.
Social Media and Journalism: What Works and Why
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $14.95Explore current uses, roles, opportunities and challenges in social media when it combines with journalism and some possible future outcomes.
Social Media and Your 2012 Election Coverage
WebinarPrice: $9.95Learn how political campaigns are using social media and what you need to know to deliver the coverage your community needs.
Social Media Credibility: Extending Your Reach
WebinarPrice: $24.95How traditional news organizations can extend their credibility to coverage on Facebook and Twitter.
The Be a Reporter Game
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Practice the basics of newsgathering -- asking questions, verifying information -- while racing against a deadline.
The Science and Art of Story Posting: API Training
Seminar SnapshotPrice: 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.
The State of Metro America: Key Trends for the Future
WebinarPrice: $19.95Go beyond the numbers to tell better stories about how your community is changing.
The Twitter Beat: Tweet Credibility of Government Agencies
WebinarPrice: $24.95Learn strategies for assessing Tweet credibility of government institutions and how to establish newsrooms standards for when to verify, report, or correct information.
This Ain’t Your Grandma’s Grammar: 4 Concepts to Improve Your Reading and Writing Forever
WebinarPrice: $9.95Learn four language concepts that will improve your reading and writing forever with our special National Grammar Day Webinar.
Чувство новости: конструируем историю
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Что делает из события или идеи новость? Изучите где, когда, кем, как, почему и зачем рождается новостная история.
دوره آموزشی درک خبر: آشنایی با اجزای سازنده خبر
Self-Directed CoursePrice:چه چیزی یک خبر یا ایده را ارزش خبری می بخشد؟ عناصر اصلی خبر را بررسی کنید.