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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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  • Best Feature Ideas: SFJ’s Show and Share

    Webinar
    Price: $24.95

    Looking for fresh approaches for your storytelling? Get great ideas from the winners of the Society for Features Journalism’s 2013 awards.

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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 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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  • Covering Hydraulic Fracking and Its Impact on Economy and Environment

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

    Learn the basics of hydraulic fracturing and oil and gas boom that is sweeping the U.S.

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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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  • 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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  • Deadly Force: Using Data to Report Accurately on Community Policing

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: $14.95

    Using 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.

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  • Democracy on Deadline: Take Your Coverage of U.S. Elections to the Next Level

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

    Examine current issues, trends and challenges in U.S. elections, and learn tips for effectively reporting local, state and national contests, in this free webinar.

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  • Developing Sources: Reporters' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: $24.95

    Learn to build relationships with the people in your community or when you're out on assignment as a reporter.

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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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  • Engaging Storytelling for Mobile Devices and Tablets

    Webinar
    Price: $24.95

    Get a heads up on what it takes to engage readers using touch screens--using location, tap, touch and interactivity for tablets and mobile devices.

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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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  • Follow The Money: Fraud and the Affordable Care Act

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

    Get the tools and information you need to uncover fraud and make your stories complete, balanced and useful to your audience.

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  • Getting Beyond Stereotypes: Better Disability Journalism

    Webinar
    Price: This $34.95 webinar is free thanks to the support of the McCormick Foundation.
    Save 20 percent on all Poynter training by becoming a Poynter Prepared Member. Learn more and register now.

    The disability community has its own stories. Discover what your audience has been missing.

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  • Getting in the Door to Get Access to Sources: Reporters' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: $24.95

    Learn how to get people to talk to you, especially if they don't want to talk to you.

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  • Growing a Nonprofit News Site: Strategies for Revenue and Engagement

    Webinar
    Price: This $29.95 course is being offered free, thanks to the generous support of the Knight Foundation.

    How can nonprofit and local news organizations work toward more sustainable business models? Join us to learn more.

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  • Haberde Bilgiyi Doğru Vermek: Dijital Çağda Bilgi Güvenilirliği ve Doğrulama

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: 29.95 ABD Doları tutarındaki bu program, Medya Derneği ve ABD Dışişleri Bakanlığı’nın cömert katkıları sayesinde, bedelsiz olarak sunulmaktadır.

    Ağlardan oluşan günümüz habercilik dünyasında bilgi doğrulama zorlu bir mesele haline gelmiştir. Duyduklarınızı, okuduklarınızı ve gördüklerini değerlendirebilmek için gerekli bilgi ve araçları edinin.

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  • How to Build and Engage Your Audience: Taking a New Approach with Analytics

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

    Rethink your approach to analytics. Learn how easy-to-use, actionable metrics can empower your team and engage your audience.

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  • How to Cover the Business of Agribusiness

    Webinar
    Price: $9.95

    From food safety to farms to energy and pollution, agribusiness is one of the biggest topics in the world. Get the sources and resources you need to tackle the topic.

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  • How to Use Housing Data on Your Beat

    Webinar
    Price: This $29.95 Webinar is free due to the generous support of Zillow.

    In this free Webinar, learn how to unlock stories about crime, culture, politics and much more by learning to use housing metrics available for free online.

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  • Illustrating the Story: Comics and Illustrated Journalism

    Webinar
    Price: $9.95

    Use new forms of visual storytelling, including comics and multimedia illustration, to engage audiences.

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  • It's All About the Voice: How to Make Your Writing Sing

    Webinar
    Price: $9.95

    This 30-minute training session will help you tune your writing, revealing practical strategies of sound and rhythm that will help you achieve an authentic voice.

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  • Making the Case for Fact-Checking in Your Newsroom

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

    The effectiveness of fact-checking and how you can use this information to justify implementing or keeping fact-checking at your news organization.

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  • Mario Garcia on WSJ Tabloid Design

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: This snapshot is free for registered users of NewsU.

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

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  • New Sources of Digital Content

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

    This seminar snapshot from API's Transformation Tour shows how content contributions from members of the community and user-generated content can transform a digital media platform.

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  • NewsU at 10: Top Lessons from a Decade of E-Learning

    Webinar
    Price: This Webinar is free in celebration of NewsU's 10th anniversary

    Join our birthday celebration as we share the most valuable lessons from 10 years of News University teaching.

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  • Privacy in a Selfie World

    Webinar
    Price: $9.95

    Explore what questions we should ask before grabbing content on the go from social media.

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  • Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writers: Secrets of Their Craft

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: This $29.95 course is available at no cost thanks to our partners at the Pulitzer Organization

    In this course, we’ve compiled a dozen Pulitzer Prize-winning writers and master teachers to share the most reliable secrets of their craft. In a fre

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  • Reporting on Mental Health Conditions and Suicide

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

    Explore strategies and statistics to help you tell powerful stories with context, accuracy and sensitivity.

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  • Reporting on Sexual Violence

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: This $29.95 course is free thanks to a grant by National Sexual Violence Resource Center

    Explore strategies and statistics to help you tell powerful stories with context, accuracy and sensitivity.

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  • Sharing the Facts: How a Hidden Code Can Boost Your Fact-Checks

    Webinar
    Price: This $29.95 webinar is provided free thanks to the generous support of Google News Lab

    How to reach a wider audience and create innovative fact-checking formats with schema.org’s ClaimReview.

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  • Solutions Journalism in Every Newsroom

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: This $29.95 course is available free of cost thanks to the support of the Rita Allen Foundation.

    Solutions Journalism can be part of every newsroom's reporting. This course lays down the basics for understanding why and how to incorporate it.

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  • Starting Your Own Site 101: Lessons from Local, Part 5

    Webinar
    Price: $19.95

    Non-profit or for-profit? How do you make money? When do you quit your day job? What are the pitfalls? What are the possibilities?

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  • Targeting New Audiences: Finding Your Niche

    Self-Directed Course
    Price:

    Starting a new print publication or Web site? Explore ways to get to know your audience and get your ideas off the ground.

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  • The New Ethics of Journalism: A Guide for the 21st Century

    Webinar
    Price: Because we believe so strongly in the importance of sound ethical decision-making, this $29.95 Webinar is free.

    As the practice of journalism has evolved dramatically, the language we use to describe our ethical values has remained static. Until now. Learn the new ethics of journalism for the 21st Century

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  • Trust-Building Strategies for Journalists

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

    Learn what research shows news consumers are looking for, and figure out how to earn the relationship you want with your audience.

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  • Upgrade your Transcription and Audio Editing Workflows with Descript

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

    Learn how to use Descript to get remarkably fast, accurate and affordable transcripts – and to edit audio by cutting and pasting text in this free digital tools webinar.

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