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.
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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.
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.
Beyond the Noise: Covering the Health Care Law
WebinarFind focus in your reporting and enhance your understanding of the Affordable Care Act.
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
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Building Trust on Facebook
WebinarSee what 14 newsrooms learned when they used their social platforms to experiment with trust-building strategies in this FREE webinar.
Covering a Presidential Campaign from Outside the Beltway
WebinarGet ideas for developing smart coverage of national campaigns that’s meaningful for your audience in this FREE Webinar.
Covering Common Core: Telling Classroom Stories
WebinarLearn the story behind Common Core and build a reporting plan to cover your state's implementation
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 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 Poverty in the Suburbs
WebinarLearn how to find and tell powerful stories about a growing class of Americans: the suburban poor.
Covering the U.S. Visa System and Its Flaws
WebinarThis FREE Webinar will provide documents, data, and human resources for covering the U.S. Visa system and its flaws.
Covering Water in a Changing World
WebinarWhether it’s lead in drinking water, “dead zones” in the Gulf of Mexico or drought in the arid West, water issues are everywhere. Get up to speed on covering timely topics in your community.
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.
Cultivating Local News Communities with Facebook Groups
WebinarLearn best practices in building, engaging and deepening your relationship with audiences using Facebook Groups.
Data Visualization for Journalists: Stripping the Dread from the Graphics
WebinarLearn how to make data visualizations, because it's not just for the designers and programmers anymore.
Describing Your Content: Metadata and What It’s Good For
WebinarLearn how to tag your online content so users can find and filter it quickly.
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.
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.
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Elevate Social Media Storytelling with RebelMouse: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarYour guide to real-time social publishing with RebelMouse--a tool that lets you pull in and customize social networks.
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
Fact-Check It: Digital Tools to Verify Everything Online
WebinarBecome familiar with various tools to combat the mis- and disinformation that runs rampant on the internet.
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
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.
Five Steps to Stronger Data Visualization
WebinarLearn how well-edited data can reveal patterns and connections to a bigger picture.
Follow The Money: Fraud and the Affordable Care Act
WebinarGet the tools and information you need to uncover fraud and make your stories complete, balanced and useful to your audience.
Getting Beyond Stereotypes: Better Disability Journalism
WebinarThe disability community has its own stories. Discover what your audience has been missing.
Getting Started With Google Fusion Tables
WebinarLearn how Fusion Tables can help you host, visualize and publish your data as maps, charts and timelines.
Google Research Tools: Search, Trends, Correlate and Public Data Explorer
WebinarGoogle's search tools will help you research stories and discover new trends.
Grow Audience Via Social Media: Digital Experiences That Drive Results, Part 4
WebinarLearn strategies for increasing the number of followers, likes and shares on social media.
How to Cover Big News As It Breaks
WebinarLearn what you can do to prepare for big breaking news and best practices for covering these stories live over social media
How to Cover the Business of Agribusiness
WebinarFrom 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.
How to Fact-Check Politics and the Media: A Primer
WebinarPoliticians, public officials and others make all kinds of claims. Here’s your guide to the basics of fact-checking published statements.
How to Keep Misinformation from Spreading
WebinarBest practices for journalists to limit the spread of false information