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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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  • 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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  • 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 Communities in a Time of Change: Reporting With Patchwork Nation

    Webinar

    Go beyond the red/blue metaphors and get new tools for understanding your audience and the nation.

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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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  • Describing Your Content: Metadata and What It’s Good For

    Webinar

    Learn how to tag your online content so users can find and filter it quickly.

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  • Document Mining with Overview: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar

    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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  • Don’t Get Fooled Again: Best Practices for Online Verification

    Webinar

    Learn how to spot online hoaxes and verify content, images and video you find on social networks.

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  • Effective Social Media for Small Organizations

    Webinar

    Learn ways to use social networks as a reporting tool and to promote your work, even if you’re a one-, two- or three-man-band.

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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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  • 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 Location-Based Services are Changing the News

    Webinar

    An ONAvation Webinar: From Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite and Buzz to countless other services, learn how location can help you do innovative journalism online.

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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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  • Hyperlocal News Startups: What's Working? What's Not?

    Webinar

    A host of high-powered startups are joining thousands of independent local news blogs in the U.S. How does local news online add up?

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Preventing Plagiarism and Fabrication in News Publishing

    Webinar

    Get real-world recommendations for preventing and handling issues of plagiarism.

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  • Programming for Non-Geeks: Easy Interactivity

    Webinar

    Make your site more engaging with jQuery, a free, easy-to-learn tool that works wherever your content appears.

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  • Programming for Non-Geeks: Essential HTML

    Webinar

    You don't have to be a tech guru to understand how HTML works. Get the basics in this comprehensive introductory Webinar.

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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 Search: Maximizing Results

    Webinar

    Explore new social search techniques to expand your reporting and research online.

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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 Powerful Effects of Short Writing

    Webinar

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

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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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  • Tools for Mobile Journalists

    Webinar

    Discover the tools, tips and tricks to research, report and publish your coverage.

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  • Track Your Traffic: Web Analytics for Journalists

    Webinar

    Learn the basics of web analytics. Get insight to where users go and how long they spend on your site.

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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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  • What Makes a Pulitzer Prize Feature Story?

    Webinar

    One Pulitzer juror's observations about the difference between a good feature story and a great one.

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  • Writing for Your Website: How to Make Readers Stick

    Webinar

    Learn essential writing techniques that will make sure your content aligns with your audience’s reading habits.

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  • Writing Headlines for the Web: 2010 Edition

    Webinar

    The mechanics of search engines and how you can write great online headlines that draw readers to your site.

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