26 free (mostly one hour) Journalism courses
/These short online courses and webinars will strengthen your journalism skills (and add a line to your resume). Most of the Poynter courses are one-hour in length or less.
Prompt Engineering for Journalists
Learn how to effectively use AI language models and automation tools to enhance your journalistic work while maintaining ethical standards and journalistic integrity.
Shut out: How Pulitzer winners worked with reluctant sources to tell powerful stories
Designed for journalists, editors, students, and anyone looking to refine their writing, this course will teach you how to keep articles clear and compelling—without sacrificing essential details.
Journalism Fundamentals: Craft & Values
A five-hour, self-directed course that covers basics in five areas: newsgathering, interviewing, ethics, law and diversity.
Learn the fundamentals of audio reporting and editing in this self-directed course.
How to Spot Misinformation Online
Learn simple digital literacy skills to outsmart algorithms, detect falsehoods and make decisions based on factual information
This course is designed to help journalists understand the applications of Title IX.
Clear, Strong Writing for Broadcast Journalism
One-hour video tutorial
Powerful Writing: Leverage Your Video and Sound
In this one-hour video tutorial, early-career journalists will learn how to seamlessly combine audio, video and copy in captivating news packages.
In this five-part course, you’ll learn everything you need to write more effective audio narratives.
Fact-Check It: Digital Tools to Verify Everything Online
News Sense: The Building Blocks of News
What makes an idea or event a news story?
Cleaning Your Copy: Grammar, Style and More
Finding and fixing the most common style, grammar and punctuation errors.
The Writer’s Workbench: 50 Tools You Can Use
Ethics of Journalism Build or refine your process for making ethical decisions
Conducting Interviews that Matter
Make Design More Inclusive: Defeat Unconscious Bias in Visuals
How Any Journalist Can Earn Trust
How Any Journalist Can Earn Trust (International Edition)
What news audiences in various parts of the world don’t understand about how journalism works
Is This Legit? Digital Media Literacy 101
MediaWise’s Campus Correspondents explain the fact-checking tools and techniques that professionals use in their day-to-day work.
Dignity and Precision in Language
Research for the Newsroom: Practical tools for adding depth to breaking and enterprise stories
Covering Vulnerable Sources: A Mental Health Reporting Project Webinar
Presented through a collaboration between Poynter and The Carter Center.
Women and prisons: Covering the impact of incarceration
Safeguarding your journalism against legal threats
AI & the Future of Fact-Checking: Building tools, ClaimReview, Sustainability and the IFCN Code