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Here are two upcoming opportunities to better your staff or invest in yourself
Poynter adjunct faculty Tom Huang.
Calling all lifelong learners! Two upcoming Poynter trainings offer a meaningful, personal touch while delivering demonstrable professional skills.
But hurry — applications to both close soon.
Power of Diverse Voices: Writing Workshop for Journalists of Color ([link removed]) is led by Tom Huang, assistant managing editor for journalism initiatives at The Dallas Morning News. This four-day, in-person November seminar in St. Petersburg is fueled by writing circles, coaching and sharing.
"In my 35 years in journalism, Poynter's Power of Diverse Voices ([link removed]) workshop is undoubtedly the most powerful, even magical, thing I've ever been involved with," Huang said.
Also being offered this fall is Level Up: Critical Skills for Local Reporters ([link removed]) , developed by Poynter faculty Kristen Hare, partly in response to what she's seen in a decade working with local newsrooms and early-career journalists: a flattening of newsrooms in which there are fewer people to help newer journalists learn the profession.
"I was lucky to work with several levels of editors, peers and mentors in my first jobs," Hare said. "For lots of reasons, we’re in a different time now. So I built a six-week training to fill some of those gaps."
Level Up ([link removed]) , now in its second year, meets virtually for two hours over the course of six weeks and is designed for early-career journalists, but is applicable for anyone in the newsroom looking to sharpen skills.
Read more below for specifics on how these and other Poynter trainings offer opportunities for journalists and their newsrooms.
FEATURED TRAINING
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Level Up: Critical Skills for Local Reporters (2023)
Online group seminar, Oct. 3-Nov. 14
The secret to success isn’t getting to the biggest newsroom; it’s creating the career you want where you are.
This weekly interactive program will provide reporters with the most relevant and practical skills needed to boost their reporting expertise and drive their professional development. Master-class level instruction on key concepts includes reporting and writing, investigations, trauma-informed interviewing, fact-checking and self-editing.
Hurry! Applications close Sept. 18.
Cost: $750.
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Power of Diverse Voices: Writing Workshop for Journalists of Color (2023)
In person, Nov. 15-18, St. Petersburg, Florida
This transformative, four-day seminar helps journalists of color find their voices and build skills for writing opinion pieces and personal essays.
With the support of expert instructors and fellow journalists of color, you’ll develop the confidence and skills to share your unique perspective in persuasive writing. You will learn both through instruction as well as intensive coaching in small writing groups. You will focus on fact-based opinion writing — and using social media to spark a conversation — across platforms.
This seminar will take place at Poynter’s campus in St. Petersburg, Florida, and will feature teaching sessions, small group workshops and daily writing time. Apply by Sept. 15.
Cost: Free.
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Beat Academy: Health News Your Audience Can Use (2023)
Webinar, Sept. 21, 1-2:30 p.m. Eastern
Beat Academy’s September sessions on health care emphasize the bottom line for patients and taxpayers.
In partnership with KFF Health News and KFF, this is the second of two sessions (the first session is available for replay) that cover tracking the ways opioid settlement money will be spent, disputing medical bills, struggles with medical debt, the impact of Medicaid funding cuts, and the choices seniors will need to make soon between Medicare and Medicare Advantage.
Cost: $75.
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Poynter ACES Introductory Certificate in Editing
Online self-directed certificate
Refreshed in 2023, this certification will help you distinguish yourself with the industry’s premiere editing course.
Brought to you by Poynter and ACES: The Society for Editing, our editing certification will teach you powerful techniques to help you and your organization achieve greater communications clarity; embrace accuracy and verification; ways to perfect your grammar, word use and style; and the skills to make you the kind of editor people are hungry to work with.
Cost: $150 or $99 for ACES members.
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UPCOMING TRAINING
Lead with Influence
Online group seminar, Nov. 6-27
This four-session virtual workshop is especially designed to help women and nonbinary journalists in the industry use their social capital to lead with influence. Cost: $600. Apply now. ([link removed])
EVENTS
The Bowtie Ball, Honoring Anderson Cooper
In-person gala, Nov. 18 in Tampa, Florida
The Bowtie Ball is Poynter’s largest annual celebration of journalistic excellence that recognizes the contributions of the brightest and liveliest minds in the industry to democracies worldwide. Tickets are selling fast. Get yours ([link removed]) before they're gone or secure your spot by becoming a gala sponsor ([link removed]) today.
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