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.
Advanced Twitter for Journalism
WebinarTwitter is not just a source of news. Learn how it can be a platform for developing breaking news out loud.
After the Texas Shooting: What Journalists Need to Know About Guns and Ammo
WebinarIn the wake of multiple mass shootings, learn the basics of key gun laws and the vocabulary of weapons and ammunition 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 Feature Ideas: SFJ’s Show and Share
WebinarLooking for fresh approaches for your storytelling? Get great ideas from the winners of the Society for Features Journalism’s 2013 awards.
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.
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.
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.
Community Building for Columnists: Poynter-Gannett Online Group Seminar (Nov. 2016)
Online Group SeminarIn this online group seminar you will learn some of the essential ingredients that make a well-read columnist.
Community Building for Columnists: Poynter-Gannett Online Group Seminar (Oct. 2016)
Online Group SeminarIn this online group seminar you will learn some of the essential ingredients that make a well-read columnist.
Conquering Writer's Block: Help! for Writers
WebinarKick-start some of your most creative work with these solutions to help you overcome writer's block.
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 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 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 Immigration Enforcement
WebinarLearn how to cover immigration enforcement, including arrests, detention and deportation, amid rapid changes in policy and practice.
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 Sexual Assault
WebinarExamine how to balance the needs of vulnerable stakeholders against your duty to inform the public.
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 War at Home
Seminar SnapshotStrategies for telling the stories of soldiers, their families and citizens on the home front.
Covering Water Quality: What You Need to Know
Self-Directed CourseUnderstand the complex environmental issues and find resources to tell compelling stories.
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.
Deadly Force: Using Data to Report Accurately on Community Policing
Self-Directed CourseUsing 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
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.
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Designing Beyond Print: Owning Your Work Across Platforms
WebinarStill designing primarily for print? This webinar will help you expand to any platform.
Developing Sources: Reporters' Boot Camp
Seminar SnapshotLearn to build relationships with the people in your community or when you're out on assignment as a reporter.
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.
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.
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.