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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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  • API Transformation Tour: Selling Digital Products Resources and Links

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn to take advantage of the strenghts of sales teams, product knowledge and focus on emerging products.

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  • Becoming a More Effective Writer: Clarity and Organization (June 2012)

    Online Group Seminar

    Build the reporting and writing habits you need to organize your information better and write more clearly.

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  • Becoming a More Effective Writer: Clarity and Organization (June 2013)

    Online Group Seminar
    Apply by
    May 21 for this Online Group Seminar

    Build the reporting and writing habits you need to organize your information better and write more clearly.

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  • Beyond the Inverted Pyramid: Creating Alternative Story Forms

    Self-Directed Course

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

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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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  • Business Model Innovation and Growth Strategies: API Training

    Self-Directed Course

    How digital-only sales and services can boost revenue and help you stay competitive in the digital world.

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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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  • Cleaning Your Copy: Grammar, Style and More

    Self-Directed Course

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

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  • Covering Climate Change

    Self-Directed Course

    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

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

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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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  • E-Commerce Strategies: Digital Agency, Local Search, Local Interactives: API Training

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn 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.

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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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  • Get Me Rewrite: The Craft of Revision

    Self-Directed Course

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

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  • Help! for Writers

    Self-Directed Course

    Unlock more than 200 solutions to some of the most common problems writers face in any platform or genre.

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  • How to Organize Your Sales Team for Success: API Training

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn to take advantage of strengths of the sales team by structuring them in a way to maximize and grow digital sales.

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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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  • Introduction to Ethical Decision-Making

    Self-Directed Course

    Ethics is not separate from the daily work of journalists. Learn the process before you're faced with a tough call on deadline.

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

    Self-Directed Course

    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

    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

    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

    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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  • Making Words, Pictures and Sound Work Together

    Webinar

    Don't let text, pictures and audio compete for the viewer's attention. Learn how words and images can work together to engage your audience.

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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 Sense: The Building Blocks of News

    Self-Directed Course

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

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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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  • On the Beat: Writing Obituaries

    Self-Directed Course

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

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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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  • Religion, Culture and Society: Getting Beyond the Cliches

    Self-Directed Course

    Religion intersects nearly every story you cover. Learn how to tell those stories with greater context, skill and thoughfulness.

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  • Reporters Without Editors: How to Edit Your Own Writing (April 2012)

    Online Group Seminar

    Overcome the pitfalls of editing work that you have created and read your writing with fresh eyes to find and fix more errors.

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  • Reporting on Sexual Violence

    Self-Directed Course

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

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  • Short Narrative Bursts: Social Media Writing

    Webinar

    The art to lively writing in a limited space.

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  • Social Media: Strategies and Tools for News

    Self-Directed Course

    Explore the strategy and tools to effectively integrate social media into all aspects of your journalism--including newsgathering, verification, audience engagement and distribution.

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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 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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  • The Powerful Effects of Short Writing

    Webinar

    Learn the power and versatility of short writing from examples across media platforms.

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

    Self-Directed Course

    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

    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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