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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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  • Best Feature Ideas: AASFE’s Show & Steal

    Webinar

    Take away the creative ideas from the country’s best arts and features coverage.

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  • Brainstorming Great Ideas: Editors' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot

    How to brainstorm for breaking news, ongoing stories and enterprise, plus six keys to brainstorming.

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  • Clarity is Key: Making Writing Clean and Concise

    Webinar

    Learn to clarify and streamline your writing by using straightforward words and stronger nouns and verbs.

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  • Coaching Writers: Editors' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn strategies, techniques and questions that can help you coach writers to produce stories that are clear, focused, powerful and compelling.

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

    Webinar
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    June 28 Webinar

    Learn the fact to help you cover the rising use of drones in commercial airspace – by companies, law enforcement and researchers.

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  • Covering Veterans' Issues: What Happens When Soldiers Come Home

    Webinar

    Unravel the web of state and federal programs for veterans and analyze their effectiveness.

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  • Credibility and Social Media in Your News Organization

    Webinar

    How your news organization can create credible Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites for readers and the community.

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  • Don’t Get Fooled Again: Best Practices for Online Verification

    Webinar

    Learn how to spot online hoaxes and verify content, images and video you find on social networks.

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  • Ethics and Credibility of Breaking News Online

    Webinar

    Be first. Be the best. Be credible. Develop standards for reporting breaking news in digital platforms.

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  • Finding the Heart of the Story

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn essential writing techniques to produce compelling, sharply focused stories with strong underlying themes.

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  • Generating Story Ideas: Seeing Stories All Around You

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn proven techniques to recognize and refine your best story ideas.

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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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  • Hunt and Gather Details for Your Story

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn how to research and report the kinds of human detail and vivid scenes that make your writing come alive.

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  • Mastering the Craft of Revision

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn revision techniques that will help you identify problems in your stories and make the changes, big and small, that make your writing stand out.

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  • Navigating Copyright and Fair Use Issues in an Open-Source World

    Webinar

    Learn how to use copyright as a publishing tool, rather than as a reason to not use others’ content.

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  • News Site Credibility: Whom Do Readers Trust?

    Webinar

    How much do readers trust news articles? User comments? Tweets? Photos? Learn from the findings of a recent APME study.

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  • Newswriting for the Web: Words That Work Online on Deadline

    Webinar

    Learn how to craft effective news writing for the fast-paced scanning habits of online readers.

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  • Online Advertising and News Site Credibility

    Webinar

    Does online advertising damage the credibility of your news or your advertisers? Do readers notice? Learn from the findings of a recent APME study.

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  • Plagiarism in the 21st Century

    Seminar Snapshot

    Examine plagiarism in the context of today's digital publishing.

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  • Planning and Drafting Your Story

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn how to draft your story using a quick plan, outlining its most important parts.

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  • Political Fact-Checking: Tips and Tricks for the 2012 Election

    Webinar

    Learn tips and tricks about political fact-checking from the editor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning website, PolitiFact.

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  • Reporting on Religion and Political Candidates

    Webinar

    Learn best practices to execute solid stories about the faith of political candidates.

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  • Short Narrative Bursts: Social Media Writing

    Webinar

    The art to lively writing in a limited space.

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  • The Art and Science of Editing

    Webinar

    Learn to identify when you need to edit something, when you don’t and how to explain your changes to others.

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  • The Editor's Toolkit: Editors' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot

    Pick up the tips, tricks (and, yes, secrets) of successful veteran editors

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  • The Ethical Investigator

    Seminar Snapshot

    Being ethical doesn't mean being timid. Find out what it takes to get the great stories -- the right way.

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  • This Ain’t Your Grandma’s Grammar: 4 Concepts to Improve Your Reading and Writing Forever

    Webinar

    Learn four language concepts that will improve your reading and writing forever with our special National Grammar Day Webinar.

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  • Tumblr for Journalists: Best Practices and Strategies

    Webinar

    Learn how to use Tumblr to maximize your storytelling, research and social community engagement.

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  • Unpublishing Online Content: Fairness and Credibility Guidelines

    Webinar

    Prepare how you'll handle requests to unpublish online content consistent with journalistic principles of accuracy, accountability and transparency.

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  • Writing for Your Website: How to Make Readers Stick

    Webinar

    Learn essential writing techniques that will make sure your content aligns with your audience’s reading habits.

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