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.
Beyond the Inverted Pyramid: Creating Alternative Story Forms
Self-Directed CourseWrite, edit and present information that engages time-crunched readers.
Cleaning Your Copy: Grammar, Style and More
Self-Directed CourseFinding and fixing the most common style, grammar and punctuation errors.
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.
Credibility and Social Media in Your News Organization
WebinarHow your news organization can create credible Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites for readers and the community.
Discover Your Missing Links: The Semantic Web
WebinarAn ONAvation Webinar replay: Go beyond tagging and build rich connections among all your content: articles, images, motion and audio.
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.
Easy Interactivity with Meograph: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarThe two most viral types of media are videos and infographics. Learn how you can do both with Meograph.
Ethics and Credibility of Breaking News Online
WebinarBe first. Be the best. Be credible. Develop standards for reporting breaking news in digital platforms.
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 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.
Illustrating the Story: Comics and Illustrated Journalism
WebinarUse new forms of visual storytelling, including comics and multimedia illustration, to engage audiences.
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.
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 and Trauma
Self-Directed CourseLearn how to compassionately interview victims and how covering traumatic events affects you.
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.
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.
News Site Credibility: Whom Do Readers Trust?
WebinarHow much do readers trust news articles? User comments? Tweets? Photos? Learn from the findings of a recent APME study.
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.
Online Advertising and News Site Credibility
WebinarDoes online advertising damage the credibility of your news or your advertisers? Do readers notice? Learn from the findings of a recent APME study.
Photojournalism for Non-Photojournalists
WebinarLearn how to compose visually robust and newsworthy photographs regardless of how simple or complex your camera. Part of the Essential Skills for the Digital Journalist Webinar Series
Picture This: Interactive Data Visualization
WebinarAn ONAvation Webinar replay: Discover tools for creating interactive data visualizations on your site. (Many are free or cheap!)
Reporting on Sexual Violence
Self-Directed CourseExplore strategies and statistics to help you tell powerful stories with context, accuracy and sensitivity.
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 Craft of Multimedia Journalism
WebinarUnderstand how to use digital storytelling forms to effectively tell your story. Part of the Essential Skills for the Digital Journalist Webinar Series
This Ain’t Your Grandma’s Grammar: 4 Concepts to Improve Your Reading and Writing Forever
WebinarLearn four language concepts that will improve your reading and writing forever with our special National Grammar Day Webinar.
Trauma Awareness: What Every Journalist Needs to Know
WebinarUnderstanding trauma makes for healthier journalists and healthier journalism.
Tumblr for Journalists: Best Practices and Strategies
WebinarLearn how to use Tumblr to maximize your storytelling, research and social community engagement.
Watching TV News: How To Be a Smarter Viewer
Self-Directed CourseThere's more to being a news consumer than just watching the news. Learn to evaluate TV news and become a discriminating consumer.