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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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  • Advice for the Newly Named News Director

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: Free

    Tips, strategies and advice from veteran news directors to anyone stepping into the position.

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  • Anatomy of a Newspaper: Understanding the Business

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Learn how a newspaper functions as a business by exploring the structure of its departments -- from newsroom to advertising to circulation.

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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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  • Build and Engage Local Audiences Online

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Get to know your local online audience and see what the power of local content can mean for you.

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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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  • Connect with Communities Using Government Documents

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: $24.95

    Steve Suo, editor of Nozzl Media, talks about the streaming news feeds his company customizes for news organizations.

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  • Conquering Writer's Block: Help! for Writers

    Webinar
    Price: $24.95

    Kick-start some of your most creative work with these solutions to help you overcome writer's block.

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  • Content Curation and Creation with Spundge: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar
    Price: This $29.95 Webinar is free thanks to the support of the American Press Institute and Knight Foundation.

    Learn how Spundge helps you cover a beat, research stories, collaborate with colleagues, and create content and curated streams.

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  • Covering Child Sex Abuse: Lessons from the Sandusky Story

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: Thanks to the support of our sponsor, the Robert R. McCormick Foundation, we are able to offer this $9.95 Seminar Snapshot for free.

    Pulitzer Prize winner Sara Ganim describes how she approached her reporting of the Penn State scandal involving former football coach Jerry Sandusky.

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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 Difficult Stories Solo

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: $19.95

    Telling stories and staying safe as a one-man-band journalist covering stories about people in difficult situations.

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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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  • Document Mining with Overview: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar
    Price: This $29.95 Webinar is free thanks to the support of the American Press Institute and Knight Foundation.

    We'll show you how to use Overview to quickly sort though hundreds, or hundreds of thousands, of documents to find the story.

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

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: This $24.95 course is being offered free, thanks to the generous support of the American Press Institute.

    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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  • Easy Interactivity with Meograph: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar
    Price: This $29.95 Webinar is free thanks to the support of the American Press Institute and Knight Foundation.

    The two most viral types of media are videos and infographics. Learn how you can do both with Meograph.

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  • Facebook for Journalists

    Webinar
    Price: $24.95

    Use Facebook to reach new readers, enhance storytelling and engage an online audience.

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  • Flash for Journalists: 10 Things You Need to Know (2009 edition)

    Webinar
    Price: $24.95

    Learn what Flash is, what it can do and how it works to create multimedia storytelling. Plus handout.

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  • Frontline Editors Introduction: Understanding Leadership Styles

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: Free

    Work through more than 20 scenarios to understand the leadership skills a frontline editor needs.

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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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  • How to Work with Campaign Finance Data

    Webinar
    Price: $9.95

    Learn how to use and understand campaign finance data, including producing simple data visualizations and maps using free tools.

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  • Innovation at Work: Helping New Ideas Succeed

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: Free

    Learn ways to make your organization more innovative.

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  • Interactive Storytelling with Zeega: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar
    Price: This $29.95 Webinar is free thanks to the support of the American Press Institute and Knight Foundation.

    Learn to easily tell beautiful immersive stories combining personal content with media curated from across the web.

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  • Introduction to Ethical Decision-Making

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    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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  • iPad and Journalism: An Early Assessment

    Webinar
    Price: $24.95

    Learn how early adopters are using the iPad to distribute the news.

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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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  • Layout-driven Editing: A Seminar Snapshot

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price:

    How two newspapers implemented an innovative process in which stories are written to fit pre-designed page templates.

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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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  • Making Dull Stories Sizzle

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: $19.95

    Learn how to make a mundane assignment into a memorable video story.

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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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  • Multimedia Reporting: Covering Breaking News

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Explore the groundbreaking work of six sites, and prepare yourself and your newsroom for deadline coverage.

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  • Multimedia Tools: Your 2009 Shopping List

    Webinar
    Price: $24.95

    The latest video cameras, audio recorders, mobile devices and accessories you need for mobile multimedia production.

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  • Multimedia Tools: Your 2010 Shopping List

    Webinar
    Price: $24.95

    The latest cameras, mobile devices and apps to help you tell multimedia stories.

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  • New Sources of Digital Content: API Training

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: This $24.95 course is being offered free, thanks to the generous support of the American Press Institute.

    This 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.

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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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  • News, Improved: Strategies for Change

    Webinar
    Price: Free

    Help your newsroom improve its content, workplace culture and capacity to meet today's challenges.

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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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