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.
9 Ways You Drive Readers Away (And 9 Tips to Keep Them Reading)
WebinarUse these strategies to make sure the readers you've drawn in to your writing aren't driven away.
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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.
ACES In-Depth Editing Online Group Seminar (Fall 2018)
Online Group SeminarThis Online Group Seminar teaches editors to apply critical thinking skills to editing texts for a variety of platforms.
Analytics 101: Understanding Digital Metrics
Self-Directed CourseLearn about digital analytics: how to interpret and apply them to real-world situations.
API-Poynter Digital Storytelling Summit
Seminar SnapshotStudents will learn key skill sets to navigate the digital media environment, expand networking opportunities and share ideas
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.
Audience, Brand, Platform: Making Sense of the Digital Landscape
WebinarSree Sreenivasan, the former chief digital officer of Columbia University and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, will show you how to be smart, strategic and sustainable with your time online.
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.
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.
Break Through the Noise: SEO and Online Content Sharing for PR and Marketing
WebinarLearn to increase content visibility through an integrated marketing plan that catches readers’ eyes without compromising style and ethics.
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
Building Strong, Profitable Relationships with Digital Audiences
WebinarTurn digital users into customers and create strong, profitable relationships that serve and engage your audience.
Changing Workflow to Create a Mobile First Newsroom
WebinarPreparing your newsroom to best serve the growing mobile audience.
Cleaning Your Copy: Grammar, Style and More
Self-Directed CourseFinding and fixing the most common style, grammar and punctuation errors.
Coaching Tomorrow's Journalists
Self-Directed CourseWorking with teen journalists can be a challenge. Find the assistance and resources you need in this course.
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.
Coaching Writers: Editors' Boot Camp
Seminar SnapshotLearn strategies, techniques and questions that can help you coach writers to produce stories that are clear, focused, powerful and compelling.
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.
Connecting as a Columnist: Your Voices, Your Choices
WebinarWhat goes into creating a distinctive -- and appealing -- columnist's voice?
Copyright Law and Fair Use for Journalists
Self-Directed CourseThis course will help journalists understand what constitutes fair use of content, particularly online content, and debunk copyright myths.
Core Skills for the 21st Century Journalist
WebinarLearn what makes a journalist successful; what skills, attributes, and knowledge areas are important. Based on the findings of Poynter's 2014 report, Core Skills for the Future of Journalism
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 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 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 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.
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.