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  • 100 Ideas to Make Your Journalism Better

    Webinar
    Price: $24.95

    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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  • Access Denied: Your Rights When Government Shuts Media Out

    Webinar
    Price: This $29.95 webinar is free thanks to the generous support of Pepper Hamilton LLP

    The media has a First Amendment right to be treated without discrimination based on the content of its reporting. Do you know your rights? Find out in this FREE webinar.

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  • Anatomy of a Multimedia News Organization

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: This $29.95 course is free of charge thanks to the support of Knight Foundation.

    Learn how an online-only news organization functions as a business by exploring its structure, departments and business model.

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  • API-Poynter Digital Storytelling Summit

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: This $50 course is being offered free, thanks to the generous support of the American Press Institute. Enrolling now will notify you when recordings are posted.

    Students will learn key skill sets to navigate the digital media environment, expand networking opportunities and share ideas

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  • Avoiding Plagiarism and Fabrication

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: This $29.95 course is available free of charge thanks to the generous support of the Harnisch Foundation.

    Plagiarism and fabrication scandals can destroy careers and damage news organizations' credibility. Learn how to detect and avoid these legal and ethical lapses.

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  • Best of Photojournalism: What Makes a Winner

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Go behind the scenes of the annual National Press Photographers Association contest to explore the elements of award-winning photojournalism.

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  • Best Practices for Reporting on Mass Shootings

    Webinar
    Price: This $29.95 webinar is free thanks to the generous support of SAVE

    Hope it never happens, but be prepared. Learn to cover mass shootings in a way that is least harmful to your community.

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  • Build and Monetize Reader Relationships with Parse.ly: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar
    Price: This $29.95 Webinar is free thanks to the support of the American Press Institute and Knight Foundation.

    Learn what data can tell you about your readers, and how you can use that to create products that they’re willing to pay for

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  • Build Interactive Data Visualizations with Tableau Public: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar
    Price: This $29.95 Webinar is free thanks to the support of the American Press Institute and Knight Foundation.

    Learn to create rich data visualizations using Tableau Public in this intensive two-hour FREE webinar

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  • Building Trust on Facebook

    Webinar
    Price: This $29.95 webinar is free thanks to the support of the McCormick Foundation.

    See what 14 newsrooms learned when they used their social platforms to experiment with trust-building strategies in this FREE webinar.

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  • Business Models and Strategies (Gannett 2015)

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: This course is free for American Press Institute E-learning users.

    How digital-only sales and services can boost revenue and help you stay competitive in the digital world.

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  • Cleaning Your Copy: Grammar, Style and More

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: This $29.95 course is free thanks to the generous support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

    Finding and fixing the most common style, grammar and punctuation errors.

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  • Color in News Design

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: This $29.95 course is free thanks to the support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

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

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  • Communicating with the Media on Mental Health Issues and Suicide: For U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Public Affairs Officers

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: This $29.95 course is free thanks to a grant by Robert R. McCormick Foundation and Educational Development Center.

    This course will help VA PAO personnel develop strategies to collaborate effectively with journalists on coverage of Veterans with mental health issues.

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  • Community Service Photojournalism: Contest Lessons Part 1

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: This $29.95 course is free thanks to the support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

    Analyze three approaches to telling visual stories that connect with readers. Based on 2005 ASNE Contest

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  • Covering Climate Change

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: This $29.95 course is free thanks to the generous support of Internews.

    Learn the science and policies behind climate change and pick up the reporting and writing skills needed to tell stronger stories about global climate change.

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  • Covering Mass Shootings

    Webinar
    Price: This $29.95 webinar is free thanks to the generous support of SAVE

    Hope it never happens, but be prepared. Learn to cover mass shootings in a way that is least harmful to your community, in this free webinar.

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  • Covering the American Muslim Community: Ideas and Insights to Guide Your Reporting

    Webinar
    Price: Free, thanks to the generous support of Democracy Fund.

    A broad survey of the demographics and lived experiences of American Muslims and the current climate in this free webinar..

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  • Covering the Green Jobs Debate

    Webinar
    Price: $9.95

    Tell stronger stories about the impact of green jobs in your community.

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  • Covering Water Quality: What You Need to Know

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: This $29.95 course is free thanks to the support of the Society of Environmental Journalists and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

    Understand the complex environmental issues and find resources to tell compelling stories.

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  • Cultivating Local News Communities with Facebook Groups

    Webinar
    Price: This $29.95 webinar is free thanks to the generous support of the Google News Lab, American Press Institute and Knight Foundation.

    Learn best practices in building, engaging and deepening your relationship with audiences using Facebook Groups.

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  • Dealing With Difficult Conversations

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: This $24.95 course is free thanks to the support of the Knight Foundation.

    From preparation to follow up, explore how you can conduct tough conversations with confidence.

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  • Designing Your Story with Canva: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar
    Price: This $29.95 Webinar is free thanks to the support of the American Press Institute and Knight Foundation.

    Learn how Canva can be used to produce beautiful and effective graphics and extend the reach of your story

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  • Develop a Mobile Strategy for Your Organization

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: This course is free for American Press Institute E-Learning users.

    Learn how to identify key mobile strategies and map implementation plans for your specific organization. Learn about the rapid influence of mobile.

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  • Digital Security for Journalists

    Webinar
    Price: $24.95

    How safe is the information you gather? Learn how you can design a security plan to address digital threats to your sources and stories.

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  • Document Mining with Overview: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar
    Price: This $29.95 Webinar is free thanks to the support of the American Press Institute and Knight Foundation.

    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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  • E-Commerce Strategies: Deals Malls and Targeted Segments

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: This $24.95 course is being offered free, thanks to the generous support of the American Press Institute.

    In this Seminar Snapshot you will lean how to increase revenues by moving from daily deals to a deals mall and targeted segmentation.

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  • E-Commerce Strategies: Digital Agency, Local Search, Local Interactives

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: This $24.95 course is being offered free, thanks to the generous support of the American Press Institute.

    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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  • E-Commerce Strategies: Transforming Classified Car Ads

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: This $24.95 course is being offered free, thanks to the generous support of the American Press Institute.

    In this Seminar Snapshot, learn the value of user-focused marketplace advertising and e-commerce models for generating online ad revenue.

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  • Easy Interactivity with Meograph: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar
    Price: This $29.95 Webinar is free thanks to the support of the American Press Institute and Knight Foundation.

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

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  • Effective News Videos with Videolicious: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar
    Price: This $29.95 Webinar is free thanks to the support of the American Press Institute and Knight Foundation.

    Learn quick and effective techniques to start reporting the news with video.

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  • Endorsements: Why Do News Organizations Even Bother?

    Webinar
    Price: This $29.95 webinar is free thanks to the generous support of ASNE.

    Are news organization endorsements still useful? Do they still make a difference in local, state or national elections? Find out why in this FREE webinar.

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  • Engage Audiences with Interactive Video with Verse: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar
    Price: This $29.95 webinar is free thanks to the generous support of the Google News Lab, American Press Institute and Knight Foundation.

    Learn how interactivity can unleash new storytelling creativity while engaging users to watch more video

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  • Face-to-Face: Lessons of an International Backpack Journalist

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: $9.95

    Learn how a backpack journalist survives and reports in such places as Haiti, Juarez Mexico and East Africa.

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  • Face-to-Face: Reports From Gaza and The West Bank

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: $9.95

    Learn methods on how to report from the West Bank or Gaza Strip from a veteran journalist.

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  • Fact-Check It: Digital Tools to Verify Everything Online

    Webinar
    Price: This $29.95 webinar is free thanks to the generous support of the Google News Initiative, American Press Institute and Knight Foundation.

    Become familiar with various tools to combat the mis- and disinformation that runs rampant on the internet.

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  • Find Stories in Data Faster and Collaborate Better with data.world: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar
    Price: This $29.95 webinar is free thanks to the generous support of the Google News Lab, American Press Institute and Knight Foundation.

    Add depth to your reporting and extend the life of your stories with this digital tool.

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  • Flourish, Don’t Flounder, at Your First Journalism Job or Internship

    Webinar
    Price: This webinar is free to registered NewsU users.

    In this FREE webinar, learn all of the things you need to know but were afraid to ask about succeeding in your first big journalism gig.

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  • Freedom of Information and Your Right to Know

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Use FOI laws to strengthen your reporting with public documents and more.

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  • Fundamentals of Editing

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: $14.95

    Gain a solid grounding in the process of editing and the range of skills that give text a professional polish.

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