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Listed below are upcoming webinars and live events to help both your editorial and business departments. If you are aware of additional resources not listed here, please let us know so we can add them
- Discover the story formats and topics proven to grow audience engagement and retention
- Learn how leading publishers adapt coverage for digital platforms and new reader habits
- See how verification, visuals, and data-driven storytelling build trust at scale
- Walk away with actionable ideas you can apply immediately to increase impact and competitiveness in your newsroom
The University of Vermont Center for Community News (CCN) has built an extensive library of resources for journalism faculty, from fundraising guidance to classroom assignments. In this panel, we will provide an overview of the free materials that are helping faculty lead their classrooms and run their reporting programs. We will also focus on fundraising strategies and messages that are working right now, with new materials to support your efforts.
Bring your ideas, questions and thoughts to this open discussion with CCN Director Richard Watts and Managing Director Meg Little Reilly.
Join the Big Branded Call on September 17 at 1 ET to hear the inspiring success story of the Minnesota Women’s Press!
How do you build a branded content strategy from the ground up—while staying rooted in your mission and community? Join Mikki Morrissette, Publisher and Editor of Minnesota Women’s Press, as she shares how her newsroom launched its early branded content work with a powerful collaboration centered on immigrant rights. Their special issue with Unidos not only elevated vital stories but also laid the groundwork for sustainable, values-driven revenue.
Morrissette will also offer a preview of what’s ahead, including bold new special issues on housing justice, collective health, ecofeminism, and the rise of controversial large-scale data centers in rural communities. From topic selection to partner alignment to editorial strategy, this session will highlight how even small teams can leverage branded content to serve audiences and spark impact. Don’t miss this chance to learn from one of local media’s most thoughtful innovators.
This month’s Big Branded Call will inspire and equip you with ideas you can use—register now at this link to join us!
As trust in news media declines and more Americans tune out stories they find too negative or exhausting, solutions journalism — rigorous reporting on responses to social problems — offers a path forward. This approach doesn’t shy away from serious issues but reframes them through the lens of collective agency and possibility.
On Sept. 17, we’ll focus on how to integrate solutions journalism into your beat or newsroom, with insights from reporter Megan Banta (Salt Lake Tribune), editor Jenna Dennison (Northwest Public Broadcasting), and host Jaisal Noor (Solutions Journalism Network).
We’ll share proven techniques drawn from work with more than 80 newsrooms covering elections, democracy, housing, education, and other critical issues.
On Sept. 3, we introduced the fundamentals of solutions journalism — why it adds value to beat reporting, how to craft a solutions story across platforms, avoid common pitfalls, and use the 16,000+ stories in the Solutions Story Tracker to discover promising responses in other communities.
ICYMI: – Watch the Sept. 3 session: https://youtu.be/vIak5IxAUqg?feature=shared – Worksheet: https://solu.news/5ehm (view-only — make a copy to save)
This training is part of the Advancing Democracy webinar series, from the Solutions Journalism Network and partners Hearken, Trusting News, and Good Conflict.
Please sign up for updates from the Advancing Democracy team so you don’t miss any exciting opportunities going forward: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc_Z7KJ-Ge5y_uIyAsDxV76YrMQVEWNV02eCHVx6OHZfYk_OA/viewform?usp=send_form
In this free, 75-minute Poynter webinar, you can master the tools to connect Washington decisions to local stories — essential coverage as the 2026 elections approach.
By the end of this course, you will:
- Understand the customary realm of state decision and policy making in education, elections, health care and the environment.
- Examine the administration’s use of a wide range of federal funds to pressure states to adhere to executive branch policies.
- Evaluate the flexibility available to the executive branch in deploying federal law enforcement agents.
- Be familiar with the data on trends in the number of federal agents.
- Have a grounding in the legal framework around using federal agents.
- Be familiar with frameworks to assess democratic practices at the state level.
- Have a list of public safety and law enforcement performance metrics at the local level.
This free Local Media Association session will showcase how to use audience data to make smart editorial and business decisions. We’ll show how local editors and publishers can leverage data tools to boost engagement, improve coverage, and increase advertiser ROI.
Key Takeaways:
– Using analytics to align coverage with community interest
– How data drives newsletter performance and local ad campaigns
– Best practices for training small publishers to make metrics actionable
– Real-world examples of turning data insights into growth
When personal identity and professional beat intersect, journalism gains powerful depth. This webinar features journalists who report on issues that directly impact the communities they belong to, such as reporters who are trans covering trans rights or reporters who are immigrants reporting on immigration. Join the Trans Journalists Association and the Institute for Independent Journalists in an honest conversation with reporters and editors who will share best practices for navigating these dual roles with integrity, empathy, and rigor. Learn how lived experience can inform reporting while upholding the highest standards of journalistic ethics and impact.
Speakers:
- Drew Costley, New Orleans-based freelance journalist and editor
- Denny Agassi, freelance journalist focused on LGBTQ+ rights
- Annabel Rocha, Chicago-based freelance journalist covering reproductive rights
- Ruxandra Guidi, Arizona-based independent journalist, creator of the podcast Happy Forgetting
Moderator: Adam Rhodes, IRE training director, freelance journalist, and TJA board member emeritus
Join Second Street for our 16th annual 30in30! We’ve pulled together dozens of ideas to help you achieve your goals for the rest of 2025, 2026, and beyond. We’ll help you create a plan to increase your revenue, grow your database, develop a deeper level of audience engagement, or a combination of all three!
Whether you’re looking for new ways to improve an existing contest program or your company is just getting started with promotions, you’ll leave with a calendar year’s worth of ideas. From the top advertiser categories to the best ways to build your database – we’re bringing you 30 promotion themes and 90+ ideas in a rapid-fire 30-minute session!
Webinar Highlights:
- Promotion categories to increase your revenue
- Topics to engage your target audiences
- Contest themes to drive significant database growth
- Over 90 contest & promotion ideas
Join Poynter at 1 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, Oct. 16, for a focused 75-minute webinar to learn about climate policy changes. This free training covers using Atlas database tools and resources for tracking federal rollbacks locally. Hear how the Clean Economy Tracker informed reporting on rural communities. Practice hands-on training on a reporting database to get the right data for your stories.
Watch live for an interactive session with Q&A, plus recorded content and resource materials for ongoing reference.
Course offered free of charge thanks to the support of our sponsor, The Joyce Foundation.
Previously Aired
Previously aired Editor & Publisher Reports Podcasts
America’s Newspapers Previously Aired Webinars – Download recordings, PowerPoints and key takeaways:
- Meeting Employer Challenges to the Pandemic
- What Advertisers Need Right Now … and How You Can Help
- Promotions to Run Now … and Who Should Run Them
- A Remote Sales Team May be the Future: Is it Here Now?
- Digital and Print Subscription Benchmarks, Best Practices During COVID-19 Pandemic
- Managing Remote Workers: The Legal and Productivity Best Practices
- Understanding Paycheck Protection Program Loans and Other SBA Stimulus Programs for COVID-19 Impacted Businesses
Small Business Impacts and Resources from the CARES Act – Register
This free webinar presented by NENPA University and Online Media Campus was recorded on April 3. It provides an overview of the impacts and resources available to small businesses from the three phased congressional relief packages in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. A NENPA member code is required to register for the recording at no cost. Members that are interested in receiving the access code for this webinar should email c.panek@nenpa.com.
Audio interview with infectious disease experts from The New England Journal of Medicine – conducted on March 25, 2020, the editors discuss transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and how to prevent it, particularly in at-risk health care workers.
Covering Coronavirus: Expert Tips for Journalists & Communicators – National Press Club
Get the Story on the Coronavirus Crisis – Center for Health Journalism