Did you know that Poynter offers two yearlong fellowship programs? We have a job placement and training fellowship for early career journalists (see who's in this year's program!) and a fellowship for media executives leading the world's most reputable brands. 

The latter is the 2022 Media Transformation Challenge (MTC) Program: A Poynter Institute Executive Fellowship — and we're recruiting now. 

Since 2007, more than 300 senior media executives have realized critical performance results, built life-long career skills and relationships, and made major contributions to industry transformation through the MTC program (formerly operated as the Punch Sulzberger Program at Columbia).

Virtually anywhere you go, whatever conferences you might attend, MTC Fellows and alumni are prominent in sharing their performance results, insights, and innovations as they help lead industry transformation — in their organizations and across the media world.

Online group seminar, Sept. 20-Oct. 16

Making stories work involves more than just teases and live shots. This eight-session, four-week online seminar will help you expand your expertise as a TV producer with new writing, storytelling, coaching and ethical decision-making skills.

Poynter Senior Faculty Al Tompkins and a five-star lineup of visiting professionals will sharpen your writing and ethical decision-making skills, stretch your leadership muscles and increase your value to your newsroom. Lori Walden, a former news director and now a general manager, will help you manage your boss and manage your career. Matthew Hilk, vice president of news and managing editor of CNN/US, will teach you about managing breaking news. And Kelly McBride, Poynter’s senior vice president, will lead a session on rethinking how we cover crime and justice. 

Online group seminar, Sept. 2-23

This four-week, hands-on seminar is for reporters and editors with ambition to do investigative journalism that functions as an important part of democracy. Tune in Sept. 2, 9, 14 and 23 for live instruction from ProPublica assistant managing editor Alexandra Zayas. You'll analyze award-winning investigations, apply those reporters’ strategies to your own work, complete weekly assignments, interact with your peers and get feedback from Zayas on your work.

Join the 150+ journalists who have graduated from this popular seminar with tangible, practical investigative skills. Enroll as soon as you know this training is for you. Now in its sixth iteration, this seminar regularly sells out.

Cost: $399. Enroll by Wednesday, Sept. 1.

Online group seminar, Oct. 4-29, 2021

By analyzing your own writing, you will learn how to turn facts and data into compelling stories, write with clarity and power, zero in on potential problems that can lead to fuzzy writing and identify the pitfalls that keep you from writing concisely.

Online group seminar, Nov. 1-22

This course — returning this fall by popular demand! — will give journalism educators an opportunity to make a real impact on the future diversity, inclusion and equity efforts of American newsrooms when they model those values in the classroom.

You will learn how to modify your current teaching to include more diverse classroom examples, readings, videos and speakers. You will understand where, how and why to examine materials for diverse voices. You will develop the instinct to audit the makeup of the topics, sources and authors you introduce into your teaching, and how to pivot to ensure diverse voices are represented.

Your lead faculty is Dr. Earnest Perry, associate dean of graduate studies at the University of Missouri, a researcher, educator and consultant who specializes in issues related to diversity and inclusion. Barbara Allen, Poynter’s director of college programming, will facilitate.

Global Fact 8 & 9
Save the date!
Global Fact is an annual conference hosted and organized by Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network. It has become the premier gathering point to discuss the practice of fact-checking. 
2021: Global Fact 8 will be held virtually Oct. 21-23, 2021.
2022: Global Fact 9 is scheduled for June 22-25, 2022 at Oslo Metropolitan University’s City Center Campus in Norway. Learn more. 

How to Spot Misinformation Online
Self-directed course, start anytime
Learn how to spot misinformation on the internet, especially around COVID-19 vaccines, and feel more confident finding facts on Facebook and other social media platforms. 
Cost: Free. This training is offered at a discounted price thanks to support from Facebook. Enroll now.

How Any Journalist Can Earn Trust
Self-directed, start anytime
This online, self-paced course will help journalists understand mistrust and gain a better understanding of what trust in news looks like in the U.S. It will also provide you with tips and tools to be more transparent, more engaged and more open with your readers. Cost: Free. Suggested donation: $15. Enroll now.