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.
Adding Verbs with Verve and Volume to Your Writing
WebinarTune up verbs to make writing sing and dance.
Advanced Twitter for Journalism
WebinarTwitter is not just a source of news. Learn how it can be a platform for developing breaking news out loud.
Best Feature Ideas: AASFE’s Show & Steal
WebinarTake away the creative ideas from the country’s best arts and features coverage.
Build Your First Twitter Application
WebinarCreate your first Twitter application using the basics of JavaScript and HTML.
Clarity is Key: Making Writing Clean and Concise
WebinarLearn to clarify and streamline your writing by using straightforward words and stronger nouns and verbs.
Community Engagement and Your News Organization
WebinarLearn how to keep the focus of your news organization where it belongs: on the people you aim to attract, hold on to and serve.
Conquering Writer's Block: Help! for Writers
WebinarKick-start some of your most creative work with these solutions to help you overcome writer's block.
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 Communities in a Time of Change: Reporting With Patchwork Nation
WebinarGo beyond the red/blue metaphors and get new tools for understanding your audience and the nation.
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.
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.
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.
Election 2012 Reporting: Understanding Opinion Polls
WebinarLearn how to accurately evaluate and report on public opinion polls for the 2012 presidential election.
Five Steps to Stronger Data Visualization
WebinarLearn how well-edited data can reveal patterns and connections to a bigger picture.
Flash for Journalists: 10 Things You Need to Know (2009 edition)
WebinarLearn what Flash is, what it can do and how it works to create multimedia storytelling. Plus handout.
Giving Local Stories a Global Context
WebinarLearn the tools, techniques and resources that will give you an edge in covering the global dimension of stories in your back yard.
How to Use Detail in Your Writing
WebinarHow to collect and select details that turn routine reporting into powerful storytelling.
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.
How to Write Short and Well
WebinarLearn the most reliable tools for writing short – across media platforms – and well.
Innovation on the Front Lines of Journalism
WebinarHarness the latest digital technology – including blogs, social media and databases -- to take control of your future in journalism.
Jumpstarting Your Freelance Career: Marketing and Business Basics
WebinarHow to find contacts, target your pitch and build your business in the freelance market.
Making Words, Pictures and Sound Work Together
WebinarDon't let text, pictures and audio compete for the viewer's attention. Learn how words and images can work together to engage your audience.
Managing Your Journalism Career and Skills
WebinarBoost your job-hunting practices to find that new job or your next one.
Mastering Revision: Polish Your Writing Like a Pro
WebinarLearn practical ways to make revision painless and boost the power of your stories.
Medicare Reform: Reporting Past the Rhetoric
WebinarA how-to-guide on going beyond the sound bites in covering Medicare reform.
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.
Newswriting for the Web: Words That Work Online on Deadline
WebinarLearn how to craft effective news writing for the fast-paced scanning habits of online readers.
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.
Order of the Word: The Secret to Powerful Prose
WebinarHow to put words in the right place at the right time for maximum effect. With Poynter's Roy Peter Clark.
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
Political Fact-Checking: Tips and Tricks for the 2012 Election
WebinarLearn tips and tricks about political fact-checking from the editor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning website, PolitiFact.
Preventing Plagiarism and Fabrication in News Publishing
WebinarGet real-world recommendations for preventing and handling issues of plagiarism.
Programming for Non-Geeks: Easy Interactivity
WebinarMake your site more engaging with jQuery, a free, easy-to-learn tool that works wherever your content appears.
Programming for Non-Geeks: The Basics of Using APIs
WebinarLearn how open APIs can be used to add content from some of the world's top providers to your news or information website.
Reporting and Writing Scenes
WebinarLearn essential reporting and writing techniques to produce compelling, cinematic scenes that enrich your stories.
Reporting on Religion and Political Candidates
WebinarLearn best practices to execute solid stories about the faith of political candidates.
Reporting on the Euro: What Everyone Needs to Know
WebinarLearn how the euro works and how the current crisis affects the dollar and other world markets.
Reporting With Video: Basics for Print Journalists
WebinarBasic video techniques and principles for print reporters and still photographers making the transition to multimedia storytelling.