A Guide to Staying Ahead in Digital Transformation
WebinarFind out where digital transformation efforts stand and what key issues to expect in 2017.
Access Denied: Your Rights When Government Shuts Media Out
WebinarThe 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.
ACES In-Depth Editing Online Group Seminar (Fall 2018)
Online Group SeminarThis Online Group Seminar teaches editors to apply critical thinking skills to editing texts for a variety of platforms.
Analytics 101: Understanding Digital Metrics
Self-Directed CourseLearn about digital analytics: how to interpret and apply them to real-world situations.
Audience Analytics for Journalists
Self-Directed CourseLearn how to integrate an analytics strategy into your busy schedule and change content creation and publication habits accordingly.
Best Feature Ideas: SFJ’s Show and Share
WebinarLooking for fresh approaches for your storytelling? Get great ideas from the winners of the Society for Features Journalism’s 2013 awards.
Best Practices for Reporting on Mass Shootings
WebinarHope it never happens, but be prepared. Learn to cover mass shootings in a way that is least harmful to your community.
Beyond the Byline: A Journalist's Guide to Personal Branding
WebinarLearn why and how to effectively build your personal brand as a freelance or full-time journalist.
Brainstorming Great Ideas: Editors' Boot Camp
Seminar SnapshotHow to brainstorm for breaking news, ongoing stories and enterprise, plus six keys to brainstorming.
Build Interactive Data Visualizations with Tableau Public: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarLearn to create rich data visualizations using Tableau Public in this intensive two-hour FREE webinar
Coaching Writers: 7 Questions Every Editor Should Ask
WebinarCoaching a writer requires that you know how they work. This Webinar explains how to interview a writer in order to coach her effectively.
Coaching Writers: Editors' Boot Camp
Seminar SnapshotLearn strategies, techniques and questions that can help you coach writers to produce stories that are clear, focused, powerful and compelling.
Community Building for Columnists: Poynter-Gannett Online Group Seminar (Nov. 2016)
Online Group SeminarIn this online group seminar you will learn some of the essential ingredients that make a well-read columnist.
Community Building for Columnists: Poynter-Gannett Online Group Seminar (Oct. 2016)
Online Group SeminarIn this online group seminar you will learn some of the essential ingredients that make a well-read columnist.
Covering Drones in U.S. Airspace and in Your Community
WebinarHow to tackle the privacy and safety issues around the rising use of drones by law enforcement, companies and others.
Covering Hydraulic Fracking and Its Impact on Economy and Environment
WebinarLearn the basics of hydraulic fracturing and oil and gas boom that is sweeping the U.S.
Covering Immigration Enforcement
WebinarLearn how to cover immigration enforcement, including arrests, detention and deportation, amid rapid changes in policy and practice.
Covering Mass Shootings
WebinarHope 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.
Covering Your Own Story: A Conversation with WDBJ Staff
WebinarHow WDBJ carried on and what you can learn about reporting when tragedy strikes the newsroom
Craft Effective Direct Outreach Messages: Digital Experiences That Drive Results, Part 3
WebinarLearn strategies for delivering digital content directly to targeted audiences with the use of newsletters and mobile messaging.
Cultivate Innovation: Make Room for Play at Work
WebinarWork and play belong together, especially when building a new team or new products.
Cultivating Local News Communities with Facebook Groups
WebinarLearn best practices in building, engaging and deepening your relationship with audiences using Facebook Groups.
Curating Content: How to Aggregate Coverage
WebinarHow do make sense of the news on the Web for your readers? Get the tools you need to curate content quickly, accurately and effectively.
Deadly Force: Using Data to Report Accurately on Community Policing
Self-Directed CourseUsing police-community relations as a starting point, learn how to use data and solid reporting to turn a hunch or an odd detail into a groundbreaking story.
Democracy on Deadline: Take Your Coverage of U.S. Elections to the Next Level
WebinarExamine current issues, trends and challenges in U.S. elections, and learn tips for effectively reporting local, state and national contests, in this free webinar.
Designing Beyond Print: Owning Your Work Across Platforms
WebinarStill designing primarily for print? This webinar will help you expand to any platform.
Developing Sources: Reporters' Boot Camp
Seminar SnapshotLearn to build relationships with the people in your community or when you're out on assignment as a reporter.
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.
Editing Entertainment and Pop Culture Writing
WebinarStyle remains serious business, even if the topics are entertaining. Learn the difference and similarities with traditional editing.
Endorsements: Why Do News Organizations Even Bother?
WebinarAre news organization endorsements still useful? Do they still make a difference in local, state or national elections? Find out why in this FREE webinar.
Engage Audiences with Interactive Video with Verse: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarLearn how interactivity can unleash new storytelling creativity while engaging users to watch more video
Engaging Storytelling for Mobile Devices and Tablets
WebinarGet a heads up on what it takes to engage readers using touch screens--using location, tap, touch and interactivity for tablets and mobile devices.
Fact-Checking 101
WebinarWhether you work behind-the-scenes with reporters or need to review your own work, here’s a process to keep sources and facts straight.
Fact-Checking and Debunking: Covering Rumors, Hoaxes and Gossip
WebinarExplore tips and strategies for dealing with the onslaught of questionable viral content, fake news articles, rumors and other unverified information that spreads online
Feature Writing Foundations: Master Class with Lane DeGregory
Master ClassAn in-depth interview with Pulitzer-Prize winner Lane DeGregory on balancing craft, collaboration and time.
Find Stories in Data Faster and Collaborate Better with data.world: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarAdd depth to your reporting and extend the life of your stories with this digital tool.
Finding and Nurturing the Secret Stories Others Miss
WebinarLearn to look at the landscape of your writing territory with a new vision, in a webinar to help you find and develop the great stories others miss.
Finding Your Voice: Writing for Columns and Blogs (Fall 2017)
Online Group SeminarThe essential ingredients to distinguish your writing in a world of opinions.
Five Steps to Stronger Data Visualization
WebinarLearn how well-edited data can reveal patterns and connections to a bigger picture.
Flourish, Don’t Flounder, at Your First Journalism Job or Internship
WebinarIn 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.