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.
Census Coverage: Going Deep with Demographic and Economic Data
Seminar SnapshotPrice:Let the experts show you how you can find great stories in the wealth of data collected by the Census Bureau.
Cómo cubrir el cambio climático
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Aprenda sobre la ciencia y la política del cambio climático, así como las técnicas necesarias para producir informes más sólidos sobre el calentamiento global.
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 Sexual Assault
WebinarPrice: FreeExamine how to balance the needs of vulnerable stakeholders against your duty to inform the public.
Covering the Green Jobs Debate
WebinarPrice: $9.95Tell stronger stories about the impact of green jobs in your community.
Covering War at Home
Seminar SnapshotPrice:Strategies for telling the stories of soldiers, their families and citizens on the home front.
Covering Water Quality: What You Need to Know
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Understand the complex environmental issues and find resources to tell compelling stories.
Election 2012 Reporting: Understanding Opinion Polls
WebinarPrice: $24.95Learn how to accurately evaluate and report on public opinion polls for the 2012 presidential election.
Environmental Reporting: An Introduction
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Do better environmental journalism, from idea generation to publication, with confidence and context.
Face-to-Face: "Testing Grounds"
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $9.95Reporters Kris Hundley and Kathleen Flynn discuss their experience in producing "Testing Grounds," an award-winning story about drug testing in India.
Face-to-Face: Reporting on Revolution
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $9.95See Egypt through the eyes of independent journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous.
Face-to-Face: Reports From Gaza and The West Bank
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $9.95Learn methods on how to report from the West Bank or Gaza Strip from a veteran journalist.
Face-to-Face: Undercover in Bahrain
Seminar SnapshotPrice: $9.95Mae Ying Welsh discusses how she produced the award-winning documentary "Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark"
First Amendment for the High School Journalist
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Gain a better understanding of freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
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.
Handling Race and Ethnicity
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Examine whether and how to use racial and ethnic descriptions in news stories.
Improve Your Teaching With Case Studies
WebinarPrice: $9.95Learn how the case method can train your students to think for themselves, based on the experiences of the Knight Case Studies Initiative.
Improving Climate Change Coverage
Seminar SnapshotPrice:Explore the crucial issues involved in covering global climate change.
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.
Introducción al periodismo medioambiental
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Produzca un mejor periodismo medioambiental, desde la generación de ideas a la publicación.
Introduction to Ethical Decision-Making
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Ethics is not separate from the daily work of journalists. Learn the process before you're faced with a tough call on deadline.
Introduction to Reporting: Beat Basics
Self-Directed CoursePrice:New to reporting? Starting on a new assignment? No matter what you cover, you need the skills, sources and resources to find stories on your beat.
Journalism and Trauma
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Learn how to compassionately interview victims and how covering traumatic events affects you.
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.
Math for Journalists: Help With Numbers
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Conquer your fear of numbers and handle arithmetic accurately with the math tools essential for all journalists.
Multimedia Reporting: Covering Breaking News
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Explore the groundbreaking work of six sites, and prepare yourself and your newsroom for deadline coverage.
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.
On the Beat: Covering Cops and Crime
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Techniques for navigating police departments and mining the beat for story ideas.
On the Beat: Covering Education
Self-Directed CoursePrice: FreeLearn how to find your way around the U.S. education system: the standards, the people and the protocol.
On the Beat: Covering Hospitals
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Step into the shoes of a rookie health beat reporter and investigate local hospitals on deadline.
Online Media Law: The Basics for Bloggers and Other Publishers
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Guidelines on copyright, defamation and privacy for anyone who publishes content online.
Online Project Development: Part 1
Self-Directed CoursePrice:Examine the five steps for creating successful Web projects and how they were used in award-winning work.
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.