18 Webinars this week about AI, Journalism & Media
/Tue, Oct 20 - Are you tracking the right prompts?
What: A 60-minute working session on building a prompt set that shows what buyers ask, where you're visible, where competitors win, and what to track next.
Who: Chris Donnelly, Co-Founder & CEO, Searchable.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Searchable
Tue, Oct 20 - How Nonprofits Are Automating the Work That Slows Them Down
What: Tapp Network will walk through how nonprofits are using AI-powered workflows to automate their most time-consuming operational tasks. Topics include: What a workflow is and how it functions; Which nonprofit processes are the best candidates for automation; How to get a workflow running without a technical team
Who: Aretha Simons, TechSoup’s Webinar Producer.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: TechSoup
Tue, Oct 20 - Show, Don't Tell: How to Turn Text-Based Journalism into Visual-First Formats
What: Practical frameworks for adapting text-based reporting into short-form vertical video, multimedia carousels, and other visual formats. You'll learn which formats work best, the accessible tools to create them, and how to make smart creative choices from pitch to publish. You'll leave with templates and repeatable approaches for your own work, no video or design background required.
Who: Social and video expert Casey Silvestri.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Online News Association
Tue, Oct 20 - Bring Creativity to Any Classroom: Pathways Through Art, Lettering, and Poetry
What: Attendees will leave able to identify realistic entry points for arts integration in a full schedule, explain how a skill-progressive pathway differs from a one-off art project, navigate the site and pull a ready-to-teach lesson in minutes, and adapt lessons across grade bands and content areas.
Who: Courtney Berolzheimer, Program Director for Blackwing Foundation.
When: 4 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Blackwing Foundation
Tue, Oct 20 - Digital Literacy in an AI World: Teaching Students to Evaluate Sources
What: How do we help students build digital literacy skills that hold up with the growing volume of online information and AI-generated content? In this edWebinar, we'll work through AI output, headlines, and search results together, look at the checks students can run on their own, and share resources you can use with your students.
Who: Brian Thomas, Former Educator, Current Learning Designer, TCI; Loyal Frazier, Former Educator, Current Professional Development Manager, TCI.
When: 6 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Teachers’ Curriculum Institute (TCI)
Wed, Oct 21 - AI Impact Hour for Nonprofits
What: This is a practical, interactive conversation designed for executive directors, staff, board members, and volunteers who want to understand what AI can realistically do in a nonprofit setting. You’ll see simple demonstrations and real examples, and you'll have a chance to share your experiences, challenges, and insights with the group.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: TechSoup
Wed, Oct 21 - Covering Immigration with Care: A Mental Health Reporting Project Webinar
What: Learn how to report on the effects of immigration on mental health with greater context, accuracy and care. This free webinar explores trauma-informed interviewing, ethical storytelling and practical reporting strategies.
Who: Kerwin Speight Faculty, Poynter; Almudena Toral, Executive Producer, ProPublica.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Poynter Institute
Wed, Oct 21 - Data in Campaign Reporting 102
What: You'll learn: Where to find sources; Relationship building; Maintaining sources after the campaign is over.
Who: Kelly Garrity, The Boston Globe.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: New England First Amendment Coalition
Wed, Oct 21 - YouTube – Growing Your Page
What: We break down the strategies that help small businesses grow on YouTube and how to access certain things within the platform.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Small Business Development Center, Widener University
Wed, Oct 21 - Postgres at Scale: What Breaks (and What Doesn’t) When Live Data Grows
What: We will walk through exactly where vanilla Postgres starts to strain under scale, what changes structurally when you extend it with TimescaleDB, and via a live demo what actually breaks at scale versus what doesn’t. Plus, you’ll leave with a concrete scorecard for your own systems.
Who: Tiger Data’s Matty Stratton; Kim Fessel, TNS.
When: 12:30 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The New Stack
Wed, Oct 21 - Book Marketing in the Age of AI
What: This class is designed for authors and small publishers who want to incorporate AI into book marketing efforts but not defer to it entirely and let it take over.
Who: Beth Kallman Werner, Advisor to the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, a Partner Member of the Alliance of Independent Authors, and Author Connections has earned the coveted Seal of Excellence from the Association of Independent Authors.
When: 1:30 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Author Learning Center
Wed, Oct 21 - AI Literacy Made Practical: Ethical & Effective AI Use in Libraries
What: A practical approach to promoting AI literacy within libraries, with an eye towards equipping each library patron with answers to these questions and more.
Who: Brady Lund, Assistant Professor of Information Science at the University of North Texas.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Niche Academy
Wed, Oct 21 - Poetry-Curious? Exploring the Craft of Prose Poetry
What: Explore what a prose poem is and what it isn’t, the different types of prose poems, and what makes a great prose poem. We’ll analyze examples and write drafts based on thought-provoking prompts. You’ll leave this workshop with a new appreciation for prose poems, fuel for your writing inspiration, and at least one new draft of your own.
Who: Bethany Jarmul, an Appalachian writer, poet, writing coach, and enthusiastic, engaging, and inspiring workshop instructor.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: $30
Sponsor: CraftTalk
Thu, Oct 22 - AI in Instructional Video: What to Automate, Augment or Keep Human
What: This session looks at what AI can do well today, what is emerging next and what that means for instructional video workflows.
Who: Matthew Pierce Learning & Video Ambassador
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Camtasia
Thu, Oct 22 - AI for Small Business Marketing — Get Seen, Get Chosen, Get Customers
What: You’ll learn to use AI tools to sharpen your message, generate campaign ideas, and create content that sounds like you. Walk away with a practical marketing plan and ready to use content you can put to work immediately.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: $20
Sponsor: Small Business Development Center, Widener University
Thu, Oct 22 - Take the Mystery Out of AI: Practical Tools for Nonprofit Impact
What: Whether you're AI-curious or AI-skeptical, you'll leave with a clearer understanding of what AI actually is, and concrete ways to start using it in your role tomorrow.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Members Only
Sponsor: TechSoup
Thu, Oct 22 - Nonprofit Storytelling Workshop
What: We’ll cover: Why storytelling matters; Brand voice and tone; Four proven narrative frameworks; The seven elements every great nonprofit story needs.
Who: Kiersten Hill, Director of Nonprofit Solutions.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Firespring
Fri, Oct 23 - Accessibility: How to Make Your Website Usable For Everyone
What: This is a practical, no-jargon primer on the handful of fixes that matter most — captions, alt text, contrast, clear structure — and why getting them right isn’t just about compliance, it’s about not losing donors and volunteers who simply couldn’t use your site in the first place.
Who: Jennie Martin, Front-End Development Manager, CPACC, DHS 508 Trusted Tester.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Firespring