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  • Face-to-Face: Reporting on the Human Cost of Gold

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  • Face-to-Face: Reports From Gaza and The West Bank

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn methods on how to report from the West Bank or Gaza Strip from a veteran journalist.

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  • Face-to-Face: Undercover in Bahrain

    Seminar Snapshot

    Mae Ying Welsh discusses how she produced the award-winning documentary "Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark"

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  • Facebook for Reporting and Storytelling

    Webinar

    Put Facebook tools to work for you as you develop story ideas, cover stories and reach new audiences.

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  • Finding the Heart of the Story

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn essential writing techniques to produce compelling, sharply focused stories with strong underlying themes.

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  • Five Steps to Multimedia Storytelling

    Self-Directed Course

    Discover the basic steps necessary to organize a story in a multimedia format.

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  • Five Steps to Stronger Data Visualization

    Webinar

    Learn how well-edited data can reveal patterns and connections to a bigger picture.

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  • Freedom of Information

    Self-Directed Course

    Use FOI laws to strengthen your reporting with public documents.

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  • Generating Story Ideas: Seeing Stories All Around You

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn proven techniques to recognize and refine your best story ideas.

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  • Get Me Rewrite: The Craft of Revision

    Self-Directed Course

    Review your work with fresh eyes to fine-tune awkward passages.

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  • Getting Started With Google Fusion Tables

    Webinar

    Learn how Fusion Tables can help you host, visualize and publish your data as maps, charts and timelines.

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  • Giving Local Stories a Global Context

    Webinar

    Learn the tools, techniques and resources that will give you an edge in covering the global dimension of stories in your back yard.

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  • Handling Race and Ethnicity

    Self-Directed Course

    Examine whether and how to use racial and ethnic descriptions in news stories.

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  • How to Make Stimulus Spending a Local Story

    Seminar Snapshot

    Tips for finding out what share of the $787 billion pie is coming to your area -- and if the recipients are deserving.

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  • How to Use Detail in Your Writing

    Webinar

    How to collect and select details that turn routine reporting into powerful storytelling.

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  • How to Work with Campaign Finance Data

    Webinar

    Learn how to use and understand campaign finance data, including producing simple data visualizations and maps using free tools.

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  • How to Write Short and Well

    Webinar

    Learn the most reliable tools for writing short – across media platforms – and well.

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  • Improving Climate Change Coverage

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    Explore the crucial issues involved in covering global climate change.

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  • Interactive Storytelling with Zeega: A Digital Tools Tutorial

    Webinar

    Learn to easily tell beautiful immersive stories combining personal content with media curated from across the web.

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  • International Reporting Basics: What You Need to Know Before You Go

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn how to plan and pack for your trip, and how to gather information and stay safe once you arrive.

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  • Introducción al periodismo medioambiental

    Self-Directed Course

    Produzca un mejor periodismo medioambiental, desde la generación de ideas a la publicación.

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  • Introduction to Reporting: Beat Basics

    Self-Directed Course

    New to reporting? Starting on a new assignment? No matter what you cover, you need the skills, sources and resources to find stories on your beat.

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  • Journalism and Trauma

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn how to compassionately interview victims and how covering traumatic events affects you.

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  • Lousy Listeners: How to Avoid Being One

    Self-Directed Course

    Better listeners are better leaders. Learn how to break bad listening habits and improve your listening skills.

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  • Making Dull Stories Sizzle

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn how to make a mundane assignment into a memorable video story.

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  • Mastering Revision: Polish Your Writing Like a Pro

    Webinar

    Learn practical ways to make revision painless and boost the power of your stories.

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  • Mastering the Craft of Revision

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn revision techniques that will help you identify problems in your stories and make the changes, big and small, that make your writing stand out.

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  • Math for Journalists: Help With Numbers

    Self-Directed Course

    Conquer your fear of numbers and handle arithmetic accurately with the math tools essential for all journalists.

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  • Medicare Reform: Reporting Past the Rhetoric

    Webinar

    A how-to-guide on going beyond the sound bites in covering Medicare reform.

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  • Multimedia Reporting: Covering Breaking News

    Self-Directed Course

    Explore the groundbreaking work of six sites, and prepare yourself and your newsroom for deadline coverage.

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  • Navigating Copyright and Fair Use Issues in an Open-Source World

    Webinar

    Learn how to use copyright as a publishing tool, rather than as a reason to not use others’ content.

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  • New Sources of Digital Content: API Training

    Seminar Snapshot

    This seminar snapshot from API's Transformation Tour shows how content contributions from members of the community and user-generated content can transform a digital media platform.

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  • News Sense: The Building Blocks of News

    Self-Directed Course

    What makes an idea or event a news story? Explore the who, what, when, where, why and how of news.

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  • Newswriting for the Web: Words That Work Online on Deadline

    Webinar

    Learn how to craft effective news writing for the fast-paced scanning habits of online readers.

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  • On the Beat: Covering Cops and Crime

    Self-Directed Course

    Techniques for navigating police departments and mining the beat for story ideas.

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  • On the Beat: Covering Education

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn how to find your way around the U.S. education system: the standards, the people and the protocol.

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  • On the Beat: Covering Hospitals

    Self-Directed Course

    Step into the shoes of a rookie health beat reporter and investigate local hospitals on deadline.

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  • On the Beat: Covering the Courts

    Self-Directed Course

    Explore the court system and learn how to translate legal proceedings into clear stories.

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  • On the Beat: Writing Obituaries

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn to write engaging, informative and accurate obituaries...and love it!

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  • On the Road with Serious Intent: A Journalistic Approach to Travel Writing (March 2013)

    Online Group Seminar

    The essential skills you need to tell, and sell, travel stories.

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