Going Viral: Using Social Media to Build Your Audience and Increase Impact (College Media)
WebinarHow social media can help you connect with passionate audiences, increase engagement and build your professional reputation.
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.
A Guide to Difficult Conversations
WebinarYou can’t be too nice to have a tough conversation. Learn how to be strategic and carry out difficult conversations with confidence.
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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.
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.
Avoiding Plagiarism and Fabrication
Self-Directed CoursePlagiarism and fabrication scandals can destroy careers and damage news organizations' credibility. Learn how to detect and avoid these legal and ethical lapses.
Be the Newsroom Cutup: Video Editing Basics
WebinarYou’ve got your video files, now learn how to get comfortable in your video editing software.
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.
Best Practices for Using Eyewitness Footage
WebinarSurveillance video, terrorist executions and other graphic footage can need special care. Learn the questions to ask in this webinar.
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
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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.
Census Coverage: Going Deep with Demographic and Economic Data
Seminar SnapshotLet the experts show you how you can find great stories in the wealth of data collected by the Census Bureau.
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.
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 Climate Change
Self-Directed CourseLearn the science and policies behind climate change and pick up the reporting and writing skills needed to tell stronger stories about global climate change.
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 Hate and Extremism, From the Fringes to the Mainstream: An Overview from the Southern Poverty Law Center
WebinarThis FREE webinar will canvass the current hate group and antigovernment landscape, discuss how the SPLC identifies hate groups and examine key factors driving the growth of hate and extremism.
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 American Muslim Community: Ideas and Insights to Guide Your Reporting
WebinarA broad survey of the demographics and lived experiences of American Muslims and the current climate in this free webinar..
Covering the Green Jobs Debate
WebinarTell stronger stories about the impact of green jobs in your community.
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.
Covering Water Quality: What You Need to Know
Self-Directed CourseUnderstand the complex environmental issues and find resources to tell compelling stories.
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.
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.
Data Journalism and Mobile-Ready Visualizations with Silk.co: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarLearn to use Silk.co to quickly convert any spreadsheet into a data journalism story with publish-ready maps, charts, tables and image galleries
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.
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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.
Diving Deep into Google Trends
WebinarWant to connect your audience with your journalism? Here's a step-by-step guide for gaining insight into what people search for on Google.
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.
Drones for Reporting and Newsgathering: The Promise and the Peril
WebinarLearn about the kind of drones that are out there that a journalist could use for their newsgathering process.
Editing Entertainment and Pop Culture Writing
WebinarStyle remains serious business, even if the topics are entertaining. Learn the difference and similarities with traditional editing.
Effective News Videos with Videolicious: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarLearn quick and effective techniques to start reporting the news with video.
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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.