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  • Elevate Your Training Career Wherever you are as a trainer and wherever you want to go, you can elevate your career by working on personal development. As training consultant Alan Weiss noted in API’s “Train the Trainer” program, if you can improve by just 1 percent each day, you will be twice as good in 70 days.
  • Don’t Wait on the Web As digital skills grow in importance in newsrooms, trainers need to learn how to demonstrate features of web sites that illustrate skills their staffs should learn. Showing web sites live in workshops can be risky for a variety of reasons.
  • Coaching journalists for multiple platforms Telling stories for continuous deadlines and multiple platforms involves several choices that editors must discuss with reporters, mojos, visual journalists, web producers and other editors. These decisions won’t all apply to every story, but you should consider them with every story and coach the journalists who work for you to consider them routinely.
  • Tools for LEADERSHIP Tara Trower, deputy news editor at the Austin American-Statesman, shares some highlights of the Poynter session “Changing Times: Updating Your Leadership Toolkit.”
  • Media training: maximising triumphs and minimising travesties If we believe that training journalists is a good thing, impact assessment can help us make it better. We can identify and understand both triumphs and travesties. We can improve our courses from an informed position. Guy Berger, head of the department of Journalism & Media Studies at Rhodes University, South Africa, looks at ways in which media trainers can develop explicit strategies for impact assessments as part of training.
  • Tips for Presenting a Newsroom Workshop If you're an experienced journalist but not an experienced teacher, these do's and don'ts can help you organize and present a workshop for other journalists. Dana Eagles of the Orlando Sentinel has drawn these tips from his own experience as well as from the American Press Institute's "Train the Trainer" seminar featuring consultants Alan Weiss and Anne Miller.
  • Take Me to the Movies You can use video or music to achieve several purposes in a training program, i.e. make a point, have fun, teach technique, etc. Steve Buttry, API's Director of Tailored Programs, offers advice on how to use video and music in a workshop.
    Click here for a list of journalism films.
  • Sharing What You Know Steve Buttry, writing coach, Omaha World-Herald, compiled this handout on how to train fellow journalists.
  • The non-information words & The four legs of a story Ana Estela de Sousa Pinto of Folha de S.Paulo, Brazil, offers tips for newsroom trainers on teaching writing and reporting.
  • Teaching others what you know - Training theory and tips for new trainers A brief, mildly interactive PowerPoint training program for people in newsrooms who have been asked to do some training but are inexperienced at planning or delivering training. It introduces adult learning theory and training tips as well as offers some resources to learn more about effective training. Submitted by Renee McGivern of the Minnesota Newspaper Foundation.
  • Take it Home Nearly 70 editors attended "The New AGE of Copy Editing" workshop Sept. 13-15, 2002, in St. Louis, Mo. Joe Hight, managing editor of The Oklahoman and one of the coordinaters of the workshop, offers advice on taking ideas home to your newsroom after such a workshop.
  • How to plan effective training sessions The goal for any trainer is to present effective training. Michael Roberts, Training Editor at The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, OH., looks at the application of adult learning theory to the way we design and deliver training sessions. He uses one model in particular as a basic outline for designing sessions.
  • Teaching Journalists: A 25-Year Odyssey Roy Peter Clark, Poynter Senior Scholar, has spent 25 years teaching journalists. Here is his tipsheet on what worked for him.
  • Measure the success of training Newsrooms embark on training schedules, often without knowing how to assess the success of their training. Consider these levels of training evaluation suggested by Michael Roberts, Training Editor at The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, OH.
  • Editor's Performance Inventory
         Jack Hart, managing editor of The Oregonian, uses this questionnaire to gather information before coming to a newspaper for an editing workshop.
  • The Ingredients for an Excellent Editor
    Joe Grimm, Recruiting and Development Editor of the Detroit Free Press, summarizes the comments on Newscoach-L about the critical role of good editors.
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 March 12, 2008