100 Ideas to Make Your Journalism Better
WebinarImprove your writing, your digital skills, your visual storytelling and more in this special Poynter faculty event to celebrate our 100th Webinar.
Best Feature Ideas: AASFE’s Show & Steal
WebinarTake away the creative ideas from the country’s best arts and features coverage.
Brainstorming Great Ideas: Editors' Boot Camp
Seminar SnapshotHow to brainstorm for breaking news, ongoing stories and enterprise, plus six keys to brainstorming.
Census Coverage: Going Deep with Demographic and Economic Data
Seminar SnapshotLet the experts show you how you can find great stories in the wealth of data collected by the Census Bureau.
Content Curation and Creation with Spundge: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarLearn how Spundge helps you cover a beat, research stories, collaborate with colleagues, and create content and curated streams.
Covering Communities in a Time of Change: Reporting With Patchwork Nation
WebinarGo beyond the red/blue metaphors and get new tools for understanding your audience and the nation.
Covering Mental Health Issues and the Recession
WebinarHow to tell stories about the effect of the recession on the mental health of individuals, families and communities.
Covering Sexual Assault
WebinarExamine how to balance the needs of vulnerable stakeholders against your duty to inform the public.
Covering the Green Jobs Debate
WebinarTell stronger stories about the impact of green jobs in your community.
Covering Veterans' Issues: What Happens When Soldiers Come Home
WebinarUnravel the web of state and federal programs for veterans and analyze their effectiveness.
Describing Your Content: Metadata and What It’s Good For
WebinarLearn how to tag your online content so users can find and filter it quickly.
Document Mining with Overview: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarWe'll show you how to use Overview to quickly sort though hundreds, or hundreds of thousands, of documents to find the story.
Don’t Get Fooled Again: Best Practices for Online Verification
WebinarLearn how to spot online hoaxes and verify content, images and video you find on social networks.
Effective Social Media for Small Organizations
WebinarLearn ways to use social networks as a reporting tool and to promote your work, even if you’re a one-, two- or three-man-band.
Face-to-Face: "Testing Grounds"
Seminar SnapshotReporters 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 SnapshotSee Egypt through the eyes of independent journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous.
Face-to-Face: Reports From Gaza and The West Bank
Seminar SnapshotLearn methods on how to report from the West Bank or Gaza Strip from a veteran journalist.
Face-to-Face: Undercover in Bahrain
Seminar SnapshotMae Ying Welsh discusses how she produced the award-winning documentary "Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark"
Five Steps to Stronger Data Visualization
WebinarLearn how well-edited data can reveal patterns and connections to a bigger picture.
Getting Started With Google Fusion Tables
WebinarLearn how Fusion Tables can help you host, visualize and publish your data as maps, charts and timelines.
How to Work with Campaign Finance Data
WebinarLearn how to use and understand campaign finance data, including producing simple data visualizations and maps using free tools.
How to Write Short and Well
WebinarLearn the most reliable tools for writing short – across media platforms – and well.
Hunt and Gather Details for Your Story
Seminar SnapshotLearn how to research and report the kinds of human detail and vivid scenes that make your writing come alive.
Interactive Storytelling with Zeega: A Digital Tools Tutorial
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May 23 WebinarLearn to easily tell beautiful immersive stories combining personal content with media curated from across the web.
Making Dull Stories Sizzle
Seminar SnapshotLearn how to make a mundane assignment into a memorable video story.
Navigating Copyright and Fair Use Issues in an Open-Source World
WebinarLearn how to use copyright as a publishing tool, rather than as a reason to not use others’ content.
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.
Newswriting for the Web: Words That Work Online on Deadline
WebinarLearn how to craft effective news writing for the fast-paced scanning habits of online readers.
Programming for Non-Geeks: Publishing Multimedia on the Web
WebinarLearn how to integrate dynamic multimedia content with your own website or publish it elsewhere online.
Quick, Quality Video News Stories
Seminar SnapshotExplore go-to video storytelling strategies on deadline.
Remaking Student Media, Inside and Out
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June 20 WebinarExplore four key steps for remaking student media.
Reporting and Publishing News with Mobile Tools
WebinarBuild your mobile newsgathering and publishing operation using your smartphone, apps, gear and other strategies.
Reporting on the Euro: What Everyone Needs to Know
WebinarLearn how the euro works and how the current crisis affects the dollar and other world markets.
Social Media and Journalism: What Works and Why
Seminar SnapshotExplore 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
WebinarLearn 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
WebinarHow traditional news organizations can extend their credibility to coverage on Facebook and Twitter.
Social Media Search: Maximizing Results
WebinarExplore new social search techniques to expand your reporting and research online.
Soundslides for Journalists: Producing Stories with Photographs and Audio
WebinarLearn the elements to produce a good audio slideshow using Soundslides. Part of the Essential Skills for the Digital Journalist Series
The Powerful Effects of Short Writing
WebinarLearn the power and versatility of short writing from examples across media platforms.
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.