Want to keep journalists from quitting? Invest in them now.

My colleague Al Tompkins wrote about what the Great Resignation looks like in journalism right now — and offered some ideas about keeping valuable employees from leaving, including providing training and development. Poynter is one place to go for professional revitalization, of course, and there are others.

If you're the one asking for money to help you re-skill or re-energize at your current job, here are some useful tips for getting your boss's buy-in. 

Now, on to the pay-off. 

— Andrew DeLong, director of teaching operations

Maybe you’re an inexperienced manager just starting your new role. Or maybe you’ve got managerial experience but have had little training. In either case, you could use some tools — along with a big dose of confidence.

This popular in-person workshop will help you build a strong foundation as a leader so your staff can engage and excel. 

Gather with a small cohort of other new managers at Poynter’s new location at Arizona State University’s Washington, D.C., campus for five days of learning and growth. You'll return home with improved self-awareness and management tools that will begin paying dividends immediately.

Poynter’s senior vice president and ethics chair Kelly McBride will be your guide. Using her decades of experience as an ethics coach and public editor, she will reveal the methods she uses to assess a newsroom’s ethical strengths and weaknesses. You will explore the dozens of factors – both concrete policies and soft qualities – that contribute to a healthy environment for making ethical decisions. With McBride’s stewardship, you will diagnose your own individual capacity, and, when possible, the capacity of your news organization.

Online program, March 7-28

Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellowship 2022-23
Online and in-person program, St. Petersburg, Florida, and Washington, D.C., June 15, 2022– May 5, 2023
The Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellowship is a year-long dynamic experiential fellowship that blends educational opportunities with work experience to accelerate your career in journalism. Cost: Free. Apply by Feb. 25.

Content Audits and Centering Audience 
Self-directed online course, start anytime
Learn about content audits, making inclusivity part of story workflow and growing subscribers in underserved communities from four Chicago-area newsrooms. Cost: Free, thanks to the McCormick Foundation. Enroll now.