Advice for the Newly Named News Director
Self-Directed CourseTips, strategies and advice from veteran news directors to anyone stepping into the position.
Analytics 101: Understanding Digital Metrics
Self-Directed CourseLearn about digital analytics: how to interpret and apply them to real-world situations.
Anatomy of a Multimedia News Organization
Self-Directed CourseLearn how an online-only news organization functions as a business by exploring its structure, departments and business model.
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 Growth and Digital Content Strategies (Gannett 2015)
Self-Directed CourseYour guide to key strategies for your digital content that can help your organization improve its digital presence and grow audience.
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 of Photojournalism: What Makes a Winner
Self-Directed CourseGo behind the scenes of the annual National Press Photographers Association contest to explore the elements of award-winning photojournalism.
Beyond the Inverted Pyramid: Creating Alternative Story Forms
Self-Directed CourseWrite, edit and present information that engages time-crunched readers.
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.
Business Models and Strategies (Gannett 2015)
Self-Directed CourseHow digital-only sales and services can boost revenue and help you stay competitive in the digital world.
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.
Color in News Design
Self-Directed CourseLearn how the visual elements of color, contrast and dimension complement the written word.
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Covering Cannabis
Self-Directed CourseTake this course to learn the proper terms, legal definitions and resources for reporting responsibly on cannabis.
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 the Affordable Care Act
Self-Directed CourseDevelop news coverage to help people get the information they need and guide them through the changing healthcare landscape.
Covering Water Quality: What You Need to Know
Self-Directed CourseUnderstand the complex environmental issues and find resources to tell compelling stories.
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.
Dealing With Difficult Conversations
Self-Directed CourseFrom preparation to follow up, explore how you can conduct tough conversations with confidence.
Develop a Mobile Strategy for Your Organization
Self-Directed CourseLearn how to identify key mobile strategies and map implementation plans for your specific organization. Learn about the rapid influence of mobile.
Entrepreneurial Journalism: Revenue and Marketing
Self-Directed CourseExplore business strategies and build a money-making plan for your new news site.
Fact-Checking: How to Improve Your Skills in Accountability Journalism
Self-Directed CourseGain the fundamental knowledge to launch your own fact-checking processes in your organization or as an independent group.
Financial Literacy Basics: Producing Better Business Stories
Self-Directed CourseLearn to decipher financial information and bring context and depth to financial news.
First Amendment for the High School Journalist
Self-Directed CourseGain a better understanding of freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
Five Steps to Multimedia Storytelling
Self-Directed CourseDiscover the basic steps necessary to organize a story in a multimedia format.
Freedom of Information and Your Right to Know
Self-Directed CourseUse FOI laws to strengthen your reporting with public documents and more.
Frontline Editors Introduction: Understanding Leadership Styles
Self-Directed CourseWork through more than 20 scenarios to understand the leadership skills a frontline editor needs.
Fundamentals of Editing
Self-Directed CourseGain a solid grounding in the process of editing and the range of skills that give text a professional polish.
Get Me Rewrite: The Craft of Revision
Self-Directed CourseReview your work with fresh eyes to fine-tune awkward passages.
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.
Growing Trust and Engagement With Local News Audiences
Self-Directed CourseResearch-based techniques for engaging online audiences, fact-checking and keeping misinformation at bay.
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.
Handling Race and Ethnicity
Self-Directed CourseExamine whether and how to use racial and ethnic descriptions in news stories.
Hands-on Fact-Checking: A Short Course
Self-Directed CourseA very practical guide to some of the most important skills that fact-checkers use in their everyday work.
How to sell online advertising
Self-Directed CourseLearn to evaluate how your company structure impacts digital sales, how to train your staff and how to develop product lines that sell.
Innovation at Work: Helping New Ideas Succeed
Self-Directed CourseLearn ways to make your organization more innovative.
International Reporting Basics: What You Need to Know Before You Go
Self-Directed CourseLearn how to plan and pack for your trip, and how to gather information and stay safe once you arrive.
Introduction to Reporting: Beat Basics
Self-Directed CourseNew to reporting? Starting on a new assignment? No matter what you cover, you need the skills, sources and resources to find stories on your beat.
Journalism and Trauma
Self-Directed CourseLearn how to compassionately interview victims and how covering traumatic events affects you.
Journalism Fundamentals: Craft & Values
Self-Directed CourseExplore essential journalism skills and principles in this introduction to producing news.