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.
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.
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.
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.
Best Practices for Working with Citizen Journalists
WebinarLearn how to best collaborate with people who contribute user-generated content to your news organization.
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.
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 and Engage Local Audiences Online
Self-Directed CourseGet to know your local online audience and see what the power of local content can mean for you.
Build and Monetize Reader Relationships with Parse.ly: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarLearn what data can tell you about your readers, and how you can use that to create products that they’re willing to pay for
Building Strong, Profitable Relationships with Digital Audiences
WebinarTurn digital users into customers and create strong, profitable relationships that serve and engage your audience.
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.
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.
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 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.
Dealing With Difficult Conversations
Self-Directed CourseFrom preparation to follow up, explore how you can conduct tough conversations with confidence.
Digital Security for Journalists
WebinarHow safe is the information you gather? Learn how you can design a security plan to address digital threats to your sources and stories.
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.
Editing Triage: Managing Workflow Effectively
WebinarLearn how to wisely spend your time managing editing tasks.
Effective News Videos with Videolicious: A Digital Tools Tutorial
WebinarLearn quick and effective techniques to start reporting the news with video.
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.
Finding and Nurturing the Secret Stories Others Miss
WebinarLearn to look at the landscape of your writing territory with a new vision, in a webinar to help you find and develop the great stories others miss.
Getting Beyond Stereotypes: Better Disability Journalism
WebinarThe disability community has its own stories. Discover what your audience has been missing.
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.
Growing a Nonprofit News Site: Strategies for Revenue and Engagement
WebinarHow can nonprofit and local news organizations work toward more sustainable business models? Join us to learn more.
How to Build and Engage Your Audience: Taking a New Approach with Analytics
WebinarRethink your approach to analytics. Learn how easy-to-use, actionable metrics can empower your team and engage your audience.
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 Use Housing Data on Your Beat
WebinarIn this free Webinar, learn how to unlock stories about crime, culture, politics and much more by learning to use housing metrics available for free online.
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How to Write Sharper Social Headlines
WebinarBring more readers to your stories with headlines that pop on social feeds.
How User Experience (UX) Will Save Journalism
WebinarCan two letters -- UX -- save journalism? Maybe, if increasing our focus on ‘user experience’ leads to better products and happier readers.
Improve Search Optimization: Digital Experiences That Drive Results, Part 2
WebinarLearn strategies for maximizing results through search optimization.