Influencer U: Teaching the Creator Landscape
Free Summer Webinar for Journalism and Media Educators
Presented by the Center for Scholastic Journalism and Trusting News, NSPA and Quill & Scroll.
Tuesdays in June and July at 4-5:30 p.m. Eastern / 1-2:30 p.m. Pacific on Zoom.
Sessions will be recorded and made available to registered participants.
Complete the webinar registration
Optional Credit
After registering for the webinar, you can also register to receive continuing education and/or graduate credit for attending the webinar.
Register here for continuing education credit
At the conclusion of the webinar, you will receive a certificate for completing 13.5 contact hours.
Register here for one hour of graduate credit
One hour of graduate credit requires tuition ($165), webinar attendance and the completion of two teaching-focused assignments.
Topics and Speakers
June 2: What is a creator journalist? And why we should be paying attention
Liz Kelly Nelson, Project C and The Independent Journalism Atlas
June 9: Rise of independent journalists: Q&A with creators Levi Ismail and Chelsea Cox
Levi Ismail, Creator and NewsChannel5 journalist, Chelsea Cox, Content creator journalist
June 16: How content creators are earning audience attention and trust
June 23: Building creator-newsroom partnerships that work
Marlene Harris-Taylor, American Press Institute
June 30: The ethics and law of creator-style journalism
Lynn Walsh, Trusting News and Jonathan Gaston-Falk, Student Press Law Center
July 7: "From newsroom to video creator: Transitioning into creator-style storytelling (Q&A with Sophia Smith Galer)
Sophia Smith Galer/Creator journalist and author
July 14: How creators can help people avoid news burnout: Q&A with Matt Kiser
Matt Kiser, WTF Just Happened Today and Ashlyn Lipori-Russie, Ask Ashlyn
July 21: Fighting misinformation and teaching news literacy with vertical video
Alexa Volland, News Literacy Project
July 28: Taking what you’ve learned back into the classroom
Erin Schneider/ Educational Media Consultant and Journalism Adviser
Learn more about the 2025 Influencer U for Journalism Educators.