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  • 100 Ideas to Make Your Journalism Better

    Webinar

    Improve your writing, your digital skills, your visual storytelling and more in this special Poynter faculty event to celebrate our 100th Webinar.

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  • A Guide to Difficult Conversations

    Webinar

    You 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

    Webinar

    The 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.

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  • Advice for the Newly Named News Director

    Self-Directed Course

    Tips, strategies and advice from veteran news directors to anyone stepping into the position.

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  • Analytics 101: Understanding Digital Metrics

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn about digital analytics: how to interpret and apply them to real-world situations.

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  • Audience Analytics for Journalists

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn how to integrate an analytics strategy into your busy schedule and change content creation and publication habits accordingly.

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  • Be the Newsroom Cutup: Video Editing Basics

    Webinar

    You’ve got your video files, now learn how to get comfortable in your video editing software.

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  • Best Feature Ideas: SFJ’s Show and Share

    Webinar

    Looking for fresh approaches for your storytelling? Get great ideas from the winners of the Society for Features Journalism’s 2013 awards.

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  • Best of Photojournalism: What Makes a Winner

    Self-Directed Course

    Go behind the scenes of the annual National Press Photographers Association contest to explore the elements of award-winning photojournalism.

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  • Best Practices for Reporting on Mass Shootings

    Webinar

    Hope it never happens, but be prepared. Learn to cover mass shootings in a way that is least harmful to your community.

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  • Beyond the Byline: A Journalist's Guide to Personal Branding

    Webinar

    Learn why and how to effectively build your personal brand as a freelance or full-time journalist.

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  • Challenging Conversations: A Step-by-Step Guide for Great Bosses

    Webinar

    Get concrete tips to avoid conflicts, resolve problems and improve performance among your team.

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  • Coaching Writers: Editors' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn strategies, techniques and questions that can help you coach writers to produce stories that are clear, focused, powerful and compelling.

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  • Color in News Design

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn how the visual elements of color, contrast and dimension complement the written word.

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  • Community Service Photojournalism: Contest Lessons Part 1

    Self-Directed Course

    Analyze three approaches to telling visual stories that connect with readers. Based on 2005 ASNE Contest

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  • Community Service Photojournalism: Contest Lessons Part 2

    Self-Directed Course

    Examine four approaches: localizing stories, watchdog photojournalism, connecting with under-covered communities and commentary through photo columns. Based on 2006 ASNE Contest

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  • Covering Difficult Stories Solo

    Seminar Snapshot

    Telling stories and staying safe as a one-man-band journalist covering stories about people in difficult situations.

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  • Covering Hate and Extremism, From the Fringes to the Mainstream: An Overview from the Southern Poverty Law Center

    Webinar

    This 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.

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  • Covering Hydraulic Fracking and Its Impact on Economy and Environment

    Webinar

    Learn the basics of hydraulic fracturing and oil and gas boom that is sweeping the U.S.

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  • Covering Mass Shootings

    Webinar
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    May 31 Webinar

    Hope it never happens, but be prepared. Learn to cover mass shootings in a way that is least harmful to your community.

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  • Covering Your Own Story: A Conversation with WDBJ Staff

    Webinar

    How WDBJ carried on and what you can learn about reporting when tragedy strikes the newsroom

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  • Craft Effective Direct Outreach Messages: Digital Experiences That Drive Results, Part 3

    Webinar
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    September 19 Webinar

    Learn strategies for delivering digital content directly to targeted audiences with the use of newsletters and mobile messaging.

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  • Cultivate Innovation: Make Room for Play at Work

    Webinar

    Work and play belong together, especially when building a new team or new products.

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  • Cultivating Local News Communities with Facebook Groups

    Webinar

    Learn best practices in building, engaging and deepening your relationship with audiences using Facebook Groups.

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  • Dealing With Difficult Conversations

    Self-Directed Course

    From preparation to follow up, explore how you can conduct tough conversations with confidence.

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  • Designing Beyond Print: Owning Your Work Across Platforms

    Webinar

    Still designing primarily for print? This webinar will help you expand to any platform.

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  • Designing Your Story with Canva: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar

    Learn how Canva can be used to produce beautiful and effective graphics and extend the reach of your story

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  • Don’t Get Fooled Again: Best Practices for Online Verification

    Webinar

    Learn how to spot online hoaxes and verify content, images and video you find on social networks.

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  • Easy Interactivity with Meograph: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar

    The two most viral types of media are videos and infographics. Learn how you can do both with Meograph.

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  • Effective News Videos with Videolicious: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar

    Learn quick and effective techniques to start reporting the news with video.

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  • Engage Audiences with Interactive Video with Verse: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar

    Learn how interactivity can unleash new storytelling creativity while engaging users to watch more video

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  • Eyetracking Photojournalism

    Webinar

    Explore key findings about how people perceive the quality of journalistic photographs — from those taken by professionals to cellphone images.

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  • Find Stories in Data Faster and Collaborate Better with data.world: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar

    Add depth to your reporting and extend the life of your stories with this digital tool.

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  • Finding and Nurturing the Secret Stories Others Miss

    Webinar

    Learn 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.

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  • Finding the Right Voice and Approach for Your Stories

    Seminar Snapshot

    Produce and edit your stories with the right balance of elements, narration and mood.

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  • Five Steps to Stronger Data Visualization

    Webinar

    Learn how well-edited data can reveal patterns and connections to a bigger picture.

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  • Follow The Money: Fraud and the Affordable Care Act

    Webinar

    Get the tools and information you need to uncover fraud and make your stories complete, balanced and useful to your audience.

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  • Getting Serious about Freelance Food Writing

    Webinar

    Everybody is writing about food, but is anyone making any money? Learn to recognize and respond to what the market wants so you can get what you want.

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  • Google Research Tools: Search, Trends, Correlate and Public Data Explorer

    Webinar

    Google's search tools will help you research stories and discover new trends.

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  • Grappling with Graphic Images

    Webinar

    How to make tough choices about whether and how to publish visually explicit images in newspapers, on television and on the Web.

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