Registration for the world’s largest fact-checking summit opened today! Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network has planned an informative four days for everyone who cares about the integrity of our interconnected information ecosystem for this year’s Global Fact. 

• Keynote speaker Claire Wardle, co-founder and U.S. director of First Draft. She will reflect on the state of our information ecosystem from a pandemic perspective.
• Andrew Pattison, digital business solutions manager of the World Health Organization. He will discuss the impact of collaboration to address COVID-19 misinformation during a panel with fact-checkers from Brazil, Spain and India.
• Rasmus Nielsen, director of Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. He will moderate a discussion to explore the incoming policy debates and regulations that will significantly affect European fact-checkers’ fight against disinformation through public policy.
• IFCN director Baybars Örsek. He will lead a panel with Facebook to discuss the Third-Party Fact-Checking Program on its five-year anniversary.

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-Andrew DeLong, director of teaching operations

Poynter ACES Advanced Editing

If you select the advanced editing certificate, you will have access to both the online group seminar and the Poynter ACES course pack. The course pack includes four webinars, three self-directed courses and seven assessments. When you’re done with the certificate, you will be able to isolate the essential elements of a story when cutting or curating content for different platforms and different audiences.

• Nicole Carroll, editor-in-chief and senior vice president, USA Today
• Andrew Pergam, director of global strategic initiatives, Facebook
• Emily Ramshaw, co-founder and CEO, The 19th*
• Rene Sanchez, editor and senior vice president, Minneapolis Star Tribune
• Krissah Thompson, managing editor for diversity and inclusion, The Washington Post

Webinar series, Sept. 22-Oct. 20, 2021

Local jails are the gateway to the U.S. justice system, but they are overloaded, overused and under-covered by resource-strapped journalists.

While local jails were intended to house people who were deemed to be a societal danger or flight risk before trial, they have become warehouses — often for people who have not been convicted of a crime and cannot afford to bail themselves out. In many cities, jails are increasingly filled with women, juveniles, immigrants and people who suffer from addictions and mental illness.

Will Work For Impact: Fundamentals of Investigative Journalism

Online group seminar, Sept. 2-23,2021

This four-week, hands-on seminar is for reporters 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 reporting, 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.

The 2022 Media Transformation Challenge (MTC) Program: A Poynter Institute Executive Fellowship
Online and in-person, Jan. 10, 2022– Jan. 9, 2023
This yearlong program, formerly operated as the Punch Sulzberger Program at Columbia, is designed for executive editors, presidents, publishers, founders and other top-level media leaders. Deliver real results for your enterprise with help from MTC’s world-class tools, concepts, coaches, peer group, and alumni network. Apply by Dec. 3, 2021.

Understanding Title IX
Self-directed course, start anytime
This course is designed to help journalists understand the applications of Title IX, how to navigate it, and what kinds of reporting can be done around both individual Title IX cases and entire higher education institutions. Cost: Free. 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.

Pay Attention: Legal Issues and Your Media Company
Self-directed course, available now
This multi-hour course will help media outlets become better versed in defamation law, as well as in issues of copyright, fair use and privacy. Enroll in the public version for free or use your coupon code from the Institute for Nonprofit News to access this more in-depth, INN-member version.

Diversity Across the Curriculum
Online group seminar, Nov. 1-22, 2021
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. Cost: $499. Apply by Sunday, Sept. 26.  

Professor’s Press Pass
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Get access to a growing library of case studies, taken straight from the newsroom and adapted for your college classroom. Subscribe for $12/month.

Students can use a bursar account to pay for Poynter resources
Schools that have Follett campus bookstores can now assign Poynter materials (just like textbooks), and students can use their financial aid to pay for them via a bursar or student charge account. Here’s a list of courses that we think are priced right and valuable enough to serve as required “textbooks”: