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.
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.
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.
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 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 the Election Online, From Tweet to App
WebinarYour digital audience cares about politics, but may not be political junkies. Learn how to reach them in this webinar.
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 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.
Creative Stand-ups: Upping Your Game as a TV and Multimedia Reporter
WebinarThe master of creative stand-ups will show you how to create compelling on-camera segments for social, digital and broadcast.
Cultivating Local News Communities with Facebook Groups
WebinarLearn best practices in building, engaging and deepening your relationship with audiences using Facebook Groups.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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 Power Your Reporting With Social Media
WebinarExplore the best ways to be a digital reporter in the digital age. We’ll show you how to be as confident working a beat from your laptop as you are walking a beat in your community.
How to Report on Money in College Sports and the NCAA
WebinarCovering the NCAA amid legal challenges, rule changes and conference changes
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How to Write Sharper Social Headlines
WebinarBring more readers to your stories with headlines that pop on social feeds.
Images on a Deadline
WebinarResearch says that visuals increase social media engagement, but where those images come from can make a huge difference to your audience.
Immersive Storytelling with 360-Degree Video and 3D Virtual Reality
WebinarA primer for producing compelling 360-degree videos and 3D virtual reality content.
Improve Search Optimization: Digital Experiences That Drive Results, Part 2
WebinarLearn strategies for maximizing results through search optimization.
Improve Your Storytelling Through Restorative Narrative
WebinarAn introduction to Restorative Narratives -- a storytelling genre that has the potential to strengthen media coverage & communities.
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It's All About the Voice: How to Make Your Writing Sing
WebinarThis 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.
Law, Order and Algorithms: Understanding Racial Patterns in Police Data
WebinarExplore the intersection of race and policing, and the key findings for your audience.
Making a Side Hustle Work for Your Journalism Career
WebinarLearn to plan, execute and promote a side project (at work or after hours) that will feed your creativity and further your career.
Making Fun and Innovation Happen on a Shoestring
WebinarWorkplace fun and innovation aren’t luxuries — they’re things every newsroom should focus on to stay competitive and keep employees happy
NewsU at 10: Top Lessons from a Decade of E-Learning
WebinarJoin our birthday celebration as we share the most valuable lessons from 10 years of News University teaching.
Online and Social Media Corrections: When, Why and How
WebinarHow should you correct a tweet or online article? Get practical guidance on the best ways to offer corrections in a multi-platform, digital world.
Periscopes, Peaches and Yaks: What's Next in Social Media
WebinarLearn about the latest crop of social networks, what to look for when you're trying new ones, and how to evaluate if they're even worth your time.
Planning and Executing Your Strategy: Digital Experiences That Drive Results, Part 5
WebinarLearn to identify and track key performance indicators, report them and use them to make data-driven decisions moving forward.
Richly Interactive Data Graphics with Tableau Public: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarLearn how to investigate data sets, and create and share data visualizations using Tableau Public’s Dashboards
Sharing the Facts: How a Hidden Code Can Boost Your Fact-Checks
WebinarHow to reach a wider audience and create innovative fact-checking formats with schema.org’s ClaimReview.