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.
Audience Growth and Digital Content Strategies: API Training
Self-Directed CourseYour guide to key strategies for your digital content that can help your organization improve its digital presence and grow audience.
Beyond the Inverted Pyramid: Creating Alternative Story Forms
Self-Directed CourseWrite, edit and present information that engages time-crunched readers.
Brainstorming Great Ideas: Editors' Boot Camp
Seminar SnapshotHow to brainstorm for breaking news, ongoing stories and enterprise, plus six keys to brainstorming.
Clarity is Key: Making Writing Clean and Concise
WebinarLearn to clarify and streamline your writing by using straightforward words and stronger nouns and verbs.
Cleaning Your Copy: Grammar, Style and More
Self-Directed CourseFinding and fixing the most common style, grammar and punctuation errors.
Coaching Writers: Editors' Boot Camp
Seminar SnapshotLearn strategies, techniques and questions that can help you coach writers to produce stories that are clear, focused, powerful and compelling.
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 Sexual Assault
WebinarExamine how to balance the needs of vulnerable stakeholders against your duty to inform the public.
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.
Five Steps to Stronger Data Visualization
WebinarLearn how well-edited data can reveal patterns and connections to a bigger picture.
Freedom of Information
Self-Directed CourseUse FOI laws to strengthen your reporting with public documents.
Getting Your First Job in Journalism (2009)
WebinarJob-hunting techniques to prepare new college graduates for a challenging job market.
Interactive Storytelling with Zeega: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarLearn to easily tell beautiful immersive stories combining personal content with media curated from across the web.
Introduction to Ethical Decision-Making
Self-Directed CourseEthics is not separate from the daily work of journalists. Learn the process before you're faced with a tough call on deadline.
Introduction to Sports Reporting
Self-Directed CourseFind and tell engaging stories from sports events.
Journalism Fundamentals: Craft & Values
Self-Directed CourseExplore essential journalism skills and principles in this introduction to producing news.
Language of the Image
Self-Directed CourseDevelop the visual vocabulary to analyze and discuss the journalistic value of images.
Language Primer: Basics of Grammar, Punctuation and Word Use (Alcatel-Lucent Edition)
Self-Directed CourseThis primer on the basics of writing and composition is for participants enrolled in the Alcatel-Lucent Effective Writing Certificate Program.
Language Primer: Basics of Grammar, Punctuation and Word Use (Ohio University Edition)
Self-Directed CourseThis primer on the basics of writing and composition is for students enrolled in J202 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Language Primer: Basics of Grammar, Punctuation and Word Use (University of Wisconsin Edition)
Self-Directed CourseThis primer on the basics of writing and composition is for students enrolled in J202 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Language Primer: Basics of Grammar, Punctuation and Word Use (University of Wisconsin Spring 2013 Edition)
Self-Directed CourseThis primer on the basics of writing and composition is for students enrolled in J202 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Layout-driven Editing: A Seminar Snapshot
Seminar SnapshotHow two newspapers implemented an innovative process in which stories are written to fit pre-designed page templates.
Managing Your Journalism Career and Skills
WebinarBoost your job-hunting practices to find that new job or your next one.
Math for Journalists: Help With Numbers
Self-Directed CourseConquer your fear of numbers and handle arithmetic accurately with the math tools essential for all journalists.
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.
News Sense: The Building Blocks of News
Self-Directed CourseWhat makes an idea or event a news story? Explore the who, what, when, where, why and how of news.
Newsgathering Law & Liability: A Guide for Reporting
Self-Directed CourseGather and report news more effectively while avoiding legal liability.
On the Beat: Covering Cops and Crime
Self-Directed CourseTechniques for navigating police departments and mining the beat for story ideas.
On the Beat: Covering Education
Self-Directed CourseLearn how to find your way around the U.S. education system: the standards, the people and the protocol.
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.
Remaking Student Media, Inside and Out
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June 20 WebinarExplore four key steps for remaking student media.
Reporting on Sexual Violence
Self-Directed CourseExplore strategies and statistics to help you tell powerful stories with context, accuracy and sensitivity.
Social Media: Strategies and Tools for News
Self-Directed CourseExplore the strategy and tools to effectively integrate social media into all aspects of your journalism--including newsgathering, verification, audience engagement and distribution.
Sources, Verification and Credibility
Self-Directed CourseAnalyze and judge the reliability of news and information
Telling Stories with Sound
Self-Directed CourseExplore how to create effective narratives by gathering, processing and mixing audio.
The Be a Reporter Game
Self-Directed CoursePractice the basics of newsgathering -- asking questions, verifying information -- while racing against a deadline.
The Changing Roles of the Journalist
Seminar SnapshotEssential skills for the changing media landscape.