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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
E-Commerce Strategies: Digital Agency, Local Search, Local Interactives
Seminar SnapshotLearn how increasing the scope of your digital advertising and marketing services from a simple business directory to full-service local search and interactives impacts digital-only revenue.
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
Face-to-Face: Reports From Gaza and The West Bank
Seminar SnapshotLearn methods on how to report from the West Bank or Gaza Strip from a veteran journalist.
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.
Getting It Right: Accuracy and Verification in the Digital Age
Self-Directed CourseIt's a challenge to verifying information in a networked world. Get the knowledge and tools you need to evaluate what you hear, read and see.
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.
Haberde Bilgiyi Doğru Vermek: Dijital Çağda Bilgi Güvenilirliği ve Doğrulama
Self-Directed CourseAğlardan oluşan günümüz habercilik dünyasında bilgi doğrulama zorlu bir mesele haline gelmiştir. Duyduklarınızı, okuduklarınızı ve gördüklerini değerlendirebilmek için gerekli bilgi ve araçları edinin.
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
How to use analytics for a better online content strategy
Seminar SnapshotExplore how you can use analytics to determine how and when to post content so you can maximize your audience.
How to Write Sharper Social Headlines
WebinarBring more readers to your stories with headlines that pop on social feeds.
Illustrating the Story: Comics and Illustrated Journalism
WebinarUse new forms of visual storytelling, including comics and multimedia illustration, to engage audiences.
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.
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.