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Welcome to election season. Here are training and resources to help you navigate the swirl.
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We're coming off a long weekend here in the U.S., so let's keep this short. Here's what we have in store for you in this edition of Poynter's Weekly Training Digest:
🗳️ Resources to prep for misinformation, intimidation and good old fashioned campaign issues ahead of the U.S. midterms
🌟 Training to help you shine, whether you're a reporter or manager
🎫 Tickets to our fall event series with Judy Woodruff, Joan Biskupic, Julie Pace, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
➕ Plus, a little delight: Poynter is on TikTok! Watch a day in the life of Texas Monthly's BBQ editor and Axios Tampa Bay's python hunter/reporter. |
| LAST CHANCE! Level Up: Critical Skills for Local Reporters |
Online seminar, Oct. 4-Nov. 15
Ready to up your game? This six-week, online masterclass will give you the front-edge skills you need to grow as a reporter and the real talk to manage your career with savvy.
You'll improve your reporting and writing, investigations, trauma-informed interviewing, fact-checking and audience development. You'll also explore how to advocate for your work, why work-life chemistry is a better frame than work/life balance and how to build passion projects.
Cost: $750. Apply by TODAY, Sept. 6. |
| DEADLINE SOON! Poynter Leadership Academy for Women in Media (2023) |
In-person seminar, March 5-10, May 21-26 or Sept. 24-29
This competitive program has transformed the careers of more than 500 people in news media and tech. It is designed for women and nonbinary journalists who directly manage people and are within their first five years of formal leadership experience.
🚀 See the keynote, instructors, schedule and participants for our our latest cohort!
Cost: $1,300. Apply by Friday, Sept. 9. |
| Midterm Essentials: Election Issues Broadcast Journalists Should Know |
Self-directed online course, start anytime
Ask more informed questions and demand more solid answers about complex issues facing America in the 2022 midterm election cycle.
Topics include: climate change, inflation and the economy, health care and drug costs, immigration, campaign finance, guns and gun control, and detecting disinformation.
This online, self-paced course is adapted from the workshop we hosted at Poynter on Aug. 2. It includes recordings of the sessions and the slide decks with resources.
Cost: Free. |
| Covering Political Extremism in the Public Square |
Online workshop, Sept. 20, 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Eastern time
Increased intimidation, threats and violence surround democratic process and participation in the United States. This free, one-day online workshop will help journalists stay safe and produce ethical, excellent stories for voters leading up to the 2022 midterms.
With guidance from the leaders at PolitiFact, you will learn how to track and debunk election-related disinformation that could fuel violence on the local level. You will also gain an understanding of First and Second Amendment protections to strengthen your reporting about activities that are prohibited by law.
Cost: Free, thanks to support from the Joyce Foundation. Apply by Friday, Sept. 16. |
🥳 Congrats to media historian Will Mari and Poynter’s own Kristen Hare! Their oral history project examining the impact of the pandemic on rural newsrooms won a multimedia award from the Oral History Association. Check out the project about journalism's essential workers in mid-America.
👏 Round of applause for recent women’s leadership academy alum Maritza Lallego Felix! The founder and publisher of Conecta Arizona was named Local Media Association’s Innovator of the Year in content and audience AND was also honored with the 2022 Cecilia Vaisman Award for Multimedia Reporters from Medill and NAHJ. We are proud of all the work she’s done to fight misinformation and increase trust in journalism on the U.S.-Mexico border.
“I want more Latinas to live and feel all the amazing experiences that I am living right now, the academy being one of them.” —Maritza Lallego Felix
Are you a Poynter grad? Share your wins with us! Email [email protected] and tell us what you're celebrating. |
Essential Skills for Rising Newsroom Leaders
In-person, St. Petersburg, Florida, Dec. 12-16
Focus on critical skills new managers need on their paths to leadership in journalism, media and technology. Cost: $1,500. Apply by Oct. 14.
Table Stakes: Poynter’s Local News Innovation Program
Online and in-person, Jan. 17-Dec 8, 2023
Make the transition to sustainable digital publishing and build a culture of performance-driven change. Cost: Starts at $500. Apply by Nov. 18. |
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Is This Legit? Digital Media Literacy 101
Online educational resource
Learn how to master the flood of suspicious information taking over the internet from MediaWise Campus Correspondents. Cost: Free. Start now. |
Find Facts Fast
7-day mobile course, start anytime
Empower news consumers in your community with the digital media literacy skills they need to find reliable information online, fast. Cost: Free. Learn more.
Luchando Contra la Desinformación en Español: Elecciones de Medio Término y Comunidades Latinas
Online group seminar, Sept. 20-22
Aprender en español, con los verificadores de Factchequeado, cómo identificar y verificar la desinformación que afecta a las comunidades latinas antes de las elecciones de medio término. Cost: Free. Enroll now. |
United Facts of America: A Festival of Fact-Checking
Online event, Sept. 27-29
Join Poynter and PolitiFact to discuss privacy, climate change, misinformation and more with experts like PBS NewsHour's Judy Woodruff. Cost: $50. Get tickets.
Beyond Politics: Facts and the Supreme Court of the United States with Joan Biskupic
In-person event, Sept. 28, Washington, D.C.
Explore where popular knowledge of the court may be misunderstood or the subject of misinformation with CNN legal analyst Joan Biskupic. Tickets to this exclusive event provide full access to United Facts of America. Cost: $75. Get tickets.
An Evening with AP Executive Editor Julie Pace
In-person event, Oct. 11, Tampa, Florida
Hear award-winning journalist and newsroom executive Julie Pace talk about leading the AP's global news operations for billions of people, from covering the war in Ukraine to declaring election winners. Cost: $35.50-$150. Get tickets.
Poynter's Bowtie Ball
In-person event, Nov. 12, Tampa, Florida
Celebrate the free press and honor the distinguished careers of legendary journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, whose dogged reporting of the 1972 Watergate break-in changed the course of American history and fortified journalism’s role in democracy. Cost: $225-$350. Get tickets. |
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