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  • 100 Ideas to Make Your Journalism Better

    Webinar
    Price: $24.95

    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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  • Beyond the Inverted Pyramid: Creating Alternative Story Forms

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Write, edit and present information that engages time-crunched readers.

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  • Cleaning Your Copy: Grammar, Style and More

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Finding and fixing the most common style, grammar and punctuation errors.

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  • Covering Climate Change

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: Free

    Learn the science and policies behind climate change and pick up the reporting and writing skills needed to tell stronger stories about global climate change.

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  • Covering Sexual Assault

    Webinar
    Price: Free

    Examine how to balance the needs of vulnerable stakeholders against your duty to inform the public.

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

    Webinar
    Price: $9.95

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

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  • Covering War at Home

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price:

    Strategies for telling the stories of soldiers, their families and citizens on the home front.

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  • Freedom of Information

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: This course is free to registered users of News University.

    Use FOI laws to strengthen your reporting with public documents.

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  • Get Me Rewrite: The Craft of Revision

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Review your work with fresh eyes to fine-tune awkward passages.

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  • Handling Race and Ethnicity

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Examine whether and how to use racial and ethnic descriptions in news stories.

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  • Journalism and Trauma

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Learn how to compassionately interview victims and how covering traumatic events affects you.

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  • Language Primer: Basics of Grammar, Punctuation and Word Use (Alcatel-Lucent Edition)

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: $12.95

    This primer on the basics of writing and composition is for participants enrolled in the Alcatel-Lucent Effective Writing Certificate Program.

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  • Language Primer: Basics of Grammar, Punctuation and Word Use (Ohio University Edition)

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: $12.95

    This primer on the basics of writing and composition is for students enrolled in J202 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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  • Language Primer: Basics of Grammar, Punctuation and Word Use (University of Wisconsin Edition)

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: $12.95

    This primer on the basics of writing and composition is for students enrolled in J202 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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  • Language Primer: Basics of Grammar, Punctuation and Word Use (University of Wisconsin Spring 2013 Edition)

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: $12.95

    This primer on the basics of writing and composition is for students enrolled in J202 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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  • Lousy Listeners: How to Avoid Being One

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Better listeners are better leaders. Learn how to break bad listening habits and improve your listening skills.

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  • Math for Journalists: Help With Numbers

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Conquer your fear of numbers and handle arithmetic accurately with the math tools essential for all journalists.

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  • News Sense: The Building Blocks of News

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    What makes an idea or event a news story? Explore the who, what, when, where, why and how of news.

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  • On the Beat: Writing Obituaries

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Learn to write engaging, informative and accurate obituaries...and love it!

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  • Online Project Development: Part 1

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Examine the five steps for creating successful Web projects and how they were used in award-winning work.

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  • Religion, Culture and Society: Getting Beyond the Cliches

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: 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.

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  • Reporting on Sexual Violence

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: This $29.95 course is free thanks to a grant by National Sexual Violence Resource Center

    Explore strategies and statistics to help you tell powerful stories with context, accuracy and sensitivity.

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  • The Writer's Workbench: 50 Tools You Can Use

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Techniques to refine your storytelling and write with confidence.

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

    Webinar
    Price: $9.95

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

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  • Trauma Awareness: What Every Journalist Needs to Know

    Webinar
    Price: $3.95

    Understanding trauma makes for healthier journalists and healthier journalism.

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  • Using History to Write Sports

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price:

    Senior Sports Illustrated writer Alexander Wolff covers the ins and outs of writing the historic sports feature.

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  • What Makes a Great Blog: Principles for Success

    Webinar
    Price: $24.95

    Find the characteristics common to great blogs and learn strategies for achieving them.

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  • Writing for the Ear

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: This $29.95 course is free thanks to support by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

    Whether you're new to audio storytelling or want to improve your radio broadcasts, podcasts, slide shows or videos, you'll learn how to tell compelling stories.

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  • Чувство новости: конструируем историю

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Что делает из события или идеи новость? Изучите где, когда, кем, как, почему и зачем рождается новостная история.

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  • دوره آموزشی درک خبر: آشنایی با اجزای سازنده خبر

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    چه چیزی یک خبر یا ایده را ارزش خبری می بخشد؟ عناصر اصلی خبر را بررسی کنید.

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  • دوره آموزشی روزنامه نگاری و تروما

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    بیاموزید چگونه با قربانیان دردمندانه مصاحبه کنید و چگونه رویدادهای دلخراشی را که روی شما تاثیر روانی بر جا می گذارد، پوشش خبری دهید.

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