APPLICATIONS FOR THIS SEMINAR ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTED.

Let Poynter teach you essential skills to produce deadline stories across multiple platforms. Learn to use social media tools, including Twitter and Facebook, to cover breaking news. Editors and reporters from print and digital media who attend this seminar will become more effective multidimensional journalists — reporting, writing and editing across print and digital platforms, including blogs, websites and tablets.

We’ll help you do high quality dailies and enterprise stories.

The Great Bosses Seminar Series

Editors: Learn how to effectively manage your ever-growing number of responsibilities — and produce better stories. Make better decisions about coverage. Brainstorm better ideas. Coach reporters to ask better questions. Write shorter — or longer — and edit faster. And develop a leadership style that works.

Whether you wear one of these hats or all of them, and whether you work in a newspaper or online newsroom, this seminar can help you.

APPLICATIONS FOR THIS SEMINAR ARE NO LONGER BEING ACCEPTED.

The Great Bosses Seminar Series

You’re a smart newsroom manager, eager to grow as a leader in today’s innovative media environment. Participation in Poynter’s Leadership Academy could very well mark a turning point in your career. Our most ambitious annual leadership program, it involves nearly all Poynter faculty and top media leaders as guest faculty.

Learn what’s working in print, broadcast and online organizations and enterprises as they reach out to evolving audiences.

Let Poynter help you master the basics of audio, video and multimedia tools, along with social media tools.

We’ll not only teach you how to use journalism’s new tools, we’ll also help you improve your storytelling and give you confidence to navigate the ethical pressure points presented by today’s emerging platforms.

You will leave with the know-how and confidence to grow in a new media world. Most importantly, you’ll change the way you think about storytelling and the future of journalism in our communities.

Guest faculty include Keith Jenkins, the Supervising Senior Producer for Multimedia at NPR, and Darren Durlach, Senior Multimedia Producer for The Boston Globe.

APPLICATIONS FOR THIS SEMINAR ARE NO LONGER BEING ACCEPTED.

The Great Bosses Seminar Series

Jump start your management career with this Poynter seminar, which provides the skills and tools you need to succeed.

Poynter‘s experts will teach you how to build your team’s performance, improve quality and meet your organization’s goals. We’ll give you personalized feedback — from your newsroom — about your strengths and challenges, as well as customized coaching.

APPLICATIONS FOR THIS SEMINAR ARE NO LONGER BEING ACCEPTED.

The College Educator Seminar Series

Use technology that matters to teach what matters

Three intensive, fast-paced days of relevant, hands-on, cut-to-the-chase learning for journalism educators.

• Learn to teach the best tools for social media, multimedia, graphics, mobile reporting, tablet storytelling and more.
• Learn what your students absolutely MUST have to get a great first job from Poynter’s Al Tompkins.
• Refresh your curricular thinking with ideas from the University of Wisconsin’s Katy Culver.
• Exchange ideas with peers and pros for highly-effective classroom teaching.
• See the latest from Poynter’s e-learning portal, News University.
• Get the first look at brand-spanking-new results from Poynter’s EyeTrack: Tablet research project.

APPLICATIONS ARE NO LONGER BEING ACCEPTED FOR THIS SEMINAR.

You will shoot lots of video and edit what you shoot using Final Cut Pro. Poynter faculty have decades of in-the-field experience in television and online video storytelling. We will guide you all the way. You will learn the fundamentals of video composition, motion, transitions, sound and interviewing.

APPLICATIONS FOR THIS SEMINAR ARE NO LONGER BEING ACCEPTED.

Whether you’re a newsroom editor who wants to make your Watchdog journalism a must-read or a science writer looking to make your work accessible to a wider audience, Poynter can arm you with the storytelling tools you need.

APPLICATIONS ARE NO LONGER BEING ACCEPTED FOR THIS SEMINAR

Held in partnership with Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE)

Never before has using data and data-based applications offered so much promise to those who pursue journalism, especially around big events like the elections. Unfortunately, fear of programming stops many news organizations from building their own.