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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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  • Anatomy of a Newspaper: Understanding the Business

    Self-Directed Course

    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

    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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  • Coaching Writers: Editors' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn strategies, techniques and questions that can help you coach writers to produce stories that are clear, focused, powerful and compelling.

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  • Color in News Design

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn how the visual elements of color, contrast and dimension complement the written word.

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

    Webinar

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

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  • Covering Drones in U.S. Airspace and in Your Community

    Webinar
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    June 28 Webinar

    Learn the fact to help you cover the rising use of drones in commercial airspace – by companies, law enforcement and researchers.

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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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  • Easy Interactivity with Meograph: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar

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

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  • Five Steps to Stronger Data Visualization

    Webinar

    Learn how well-edited data can reveal patterns and connections to a bigger picture.

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  • Freedom of Information

    Self-Directed Course

    Use FOI laws to strengthen your reporting with public documents.

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  • Getting Started With Google Fusion Tables

    Webinar

    Learn how Fusion Tables can help you host, visualize and publish your data as maps, charts and timelines.

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  • How to Work with Campaign Finance Data

    Webinar

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

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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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  • Innovation on the Front Lines of Journalism

    Webinar

    Harness the latest digital technology – including blogs, social media and databases -- to take control of your future in journalism.

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  • Interactive Storytelling with Zeega: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar
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    May 23 Webinar

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

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  • Mario Garcia on WSJ Tabloid Design

    Seminar Snapshot

    Examine the tools and techniques used by the international editions of The Wall Street Journal.

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  • On the Road with Serious Intent: A Journalistic Approach to Travel Writing (March 2013)

    Online Group Seminar

    The essential skills you need to tell, and sell, travel stories.

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  • Remaking Student Media, Inside and Out

    Webinar
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    June 20 Webinar

    Explore four key steps for remaking student media.

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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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  • Social Media and Journalism: What Works and Why

    Seminar Snapshot

    Explore current uses, roles, opportunities and challenges in social media when it combines with journalism and some possible future outcomes.

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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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  • State of the News Media 2012

    Webinar

    Get the latest on the health of American journalism from the annual report by The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.

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  • State of the News Media 2013

    Webinar

    Get the latest on the health of American journalism from the annual report by The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.

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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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  • Using Analytics to Drive Website Success

    Webinar

    It's easy to get lost in numbers. Here are some tips to stay focused and effective.

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  • Using Online Media Tools to Grow and Manage Communities

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn how to leverage online media tools to build and enhance communities, foster informative conversations and produce community action.

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  • Writing Online Headlines: SEO and Beyond

    Self-Directed Course

    Write headlines that work everywhere online, from search results to article pages to RSS feeds to mobile apps.

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  • شبكات الإعلام الاجتماعي: استراتيجيات وأدوات للأخبار

    Self-Directed Course

    Understand the impact of social media on journalism and learn to effectively integrate social media into your newsgathering.

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