Ethics and Diversity

Strengthening Your Journalism With Clarity and Accuracy

Online Group Seminar

This course will help you strengthen your reporting and writing skills, especially focusing on reporting on the government, courts, military and NGOs.

Interactive Storytelling with Zeega: A Digital Tools Tutorial

Webinar
05/23

Learn to easily tell beautiful immersive stories combining personal content with media curated from across the web.

Tumblr for Journalists: Best Practices and Strategies

Webinar
05/03

Learn how to use Tumblr to maximize your storytelling, research and social community engagement.

Navigating Copyright and Fair Use Issues in an Open-Source World

Webinar
05/08

Learn how to use copyright as a publishing tool, rather than as a reason to not use others’ content.

Credibility and Social Media in Your News Organization

Webinar
06/02

How your news organization can create credible Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites for readers and the community.

Improve Your Teaching With Case Studies

Webinar
04/29

Learn how the case method can train your students to think for themselves, based on the experiences of the Knight Case Studies Initiative.

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

Webinar
02/21

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

Remaking Student Media, Inside and Out

Webinar
06/20

Explore four key steps for remaking student media.

Ethics and Credibility of Breaking News Online

Webinar
04/15

Be first. Be the best. Be credible. Develop standards for reporting breaking news in digital platforms.

Covering Guns: A McCormick Specialized Reporting Institute (SRIGUN-13)

Seminar
04/01-04/03

Applications are no longer being accepted for this workshop, but you may apply to Covering Guns, A Poynter Workshop scheduled for July 10-12 in the Washington, D.C., area. Details and an application here.

This workshop has a simple goal: to improve the accuracy and depth of coverage of America’s gun debate, without deference to any political agenda or special interests.