Advice for the Newly Named News Director
Self-Directed CourseTips, strategies and advice from veteran news directors to anyone stepping into the position.
API Transformation Tour: Digital Publishing Revenue Resources and Links
Self-Directed CourseFind new ways to drive revenue from your content in this workshop course by API and Poynter's NewsU.
API Transformation Tour: Selling Digital Products Resources and Links
Self-Directed CourseLearn to take advantage of the strenghts of sales teams, product knowledge and focus on emerging products.
Audience Growth and Digital Content Strategies: API Training
Self-Directed CourseYour guide to key strategies for your digital content that can help your organization improve its digital presence and grow audience.
Balancing Community Journalism and Citizen Participation
Seminar SnapshotKey findings about generating and managing user content on newspaper websites.
Beyond the Inverted Pyramid: Creating Alternative Story Forms
Self-Directed CourseWrite, edit and present information that engages time-crunched readers.
Brainstorming Great Ideas: Editors' Boot Camp
Seminar SnapshotHow to brainstorm for breaking news, ongoing stories and enterprise, plus six keys to brainstorming.
Build and Engage Local Audiences Online
Self-Directed CourseGet to know your local online audience and see what the power of local content can mean for you.
Business Model Innovation and Growth Strategies: API Training
Self-Directed CourseHow digital-only sales and services can boost revenue and help you stay competitive in the digital world.
Cleaning Your Copy: Grammar, Style and More
Self-Directed CourseFinding and fixing the most common style, grammar and punctuation errors.
Coaching Tomorrow's Journalists
Self-Directed CourseWorking with teen journalists can be a challenge. Find the assistance and resources you need in this course.
Coaching Writers: Editors' Boot Camp
Seminar SnapshotLearn strategies, techniques and questions that can help you coach writers to produce stories that are clear, focused, powerful and compelling.
Dealing With Difficult Conversations
Self-Directed CourseFrom preparation to follow up, explore how you can conduct tough conversations with confidence.
Disruptive Innovation and Dual Transformation: API Training
Seminar SnapshotThis seminar snapshot from API's Transformation Tour shows how Disruptive Innovation and Dual Transformation can change the face of media business.
E-Commerce Strategies: Deals Malls and Targeted Segments: API Training
Seminar SnapshotIn this Seminar Snapshot you will lean how to increase revenues by moving from daily deals to a deals mall and targeted segmentation.
E-Commerce Strategies: Digital Agency, Local Search, Local Interactives: API Training
Seminar SnapshotLearn how increasing the scope of your digital advertising and marketing services from a simple business directory to full-service local search and interactives impacts digital-only revenue.
E-Commerce Strategies: Transforming Classified Car Ads: API Training
Seminar SnapshotIn this Seminar Snapshot, learn the value of user-focused marketplace advertising and e-commerce models for generating online ad revenue.
Freedom of Information
Self-Directed CourseUse FOI laws to strengthen your reporting with public documents.
Frontline Editors Introduction: Understanding Leadership Styles
Self-Directed CourseWork through more than 20 scenarios to understand the leadership skills a frontline editor needs.
How to Organize Your Sales Team for Success: API Training
Seminar SnapshotLearn to take advantage of strengths of the sales team by structuring them in a way to maximize and grow digital sales.
Innovation at Work: Helping New Ideas Succeed
Self-Directed CourseLearn ways to make your organization more innovative.
Introduction to Ethical Decision-Making
Self-Directed CourseEthics is not separate from the daily work of journalists. Learn the process before you're faced with a tough call on deadline.
Layout-driven Editing: A Seminar Snapshot
Seminar SnapshotHow two newspapers implemented an innovative process in which stories are written to fit pre-designed page templates.
Leading an Online Newsroom: What You Need to Know
Self-Directed CourseAddress the challenges of guiding your newsroom through the transition to an online publication.
Lousy Listeners: How to Avoid Being One
Self-Directed CourseBetter listeners are better leaders. Learn how to break bad listening habits and improve your listening skills.
Managing Change: Creating Strategies, Setting Priorities
Self-Directed CourseDiagnose your ability to change and identify the best strategies for leading others effectively.
New Sources of Digital Content: API Training
Seminar SnapshotThis 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.
Plagiarism in the 21st Century
Seminar SnapshotExamine plagiarism in the context of today's digital publishing.
Reporting on Sexual Violence
Self-Directed CourseExplore strategies and statistics to help you tell powerful stories with context, accuracy and sensitivity.
Social Media: Strategies and Tools for News
Self-Directed CourseExplore the strategy and tools to effectively integrate social media into all aspects of your journalism--including newsgathering, verification, audience engagement and distribution.
Social Strategies, Passion Marketing and Audience Growth: API Training
Seminar SnapshotThis seminar snapshot from API's Transformation Tour shows the difference between brand and affinity marketing in social media.
Targeting New Audiences: Finding Your Niche
Self-Directed CourseStarting a new print publication or Web site? Explore ways to get to know your audience and get your ideas off the ground.
The Be a Reporter Game
Self-Directed CoursePractice the basics of newsgathering -- asking questions, verifying information -- while racing against a deadline.
The Changing Roles of the Journalist
Seminar SnapshotEssential skills for the changing media landscape.
The Community Journalism Series: Strategies for Managing Local Contributors
Self-Directed CourseLearn how your site can benefit from community contributors and build your plan for recruiting, training and managing these content providers.
The Editor's Toolkit: Editors' Boot Camp
Seminar SnapshotPick up the tips, tricks (and, yes, secrets) of successful veteran editors
The Science and Art of Story Posting: API Training
Seminar SnapshotThis 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.
Using Analytics and Web Metrics to Grow Your Audience: API Training
Seminar SnapshotThis Seminar Snapshot from API's Transformation Tour shows you how to use analytic tools to understand digital audiences and how that information can shape your content strategies.
Video Storytelling with the Pros: Discover the Magic Moments in Breaking News
Seminar SnapshotLearn how to uncover magic moments in a breaking news video story and to use them, along with natural sound, to bring subjects to life.
Video Storytelling with the Pros: Doing It All Efficiently
Seminar SnapshotLearn how short-form techniques like sound bites, transitions, composition, clean sound and moments, can be used in long-form video storytelling.