Improve your ability to find and tell stories off the beaten path in your community.

Build the reporting and writing habits you need to organize your information better and write more clearly.

Write, edit and present information that engages time-crunched readers.

Learn to clarify and streamline your writing by using straightforward words and stronger nouns and verbs.

Learn strategies, techniques and questions that can help you coach writers to produce stories that are clear, focused, powerful and compelling.

Pulitzer Prize winner Sara Ganim describes how she approached her reporting of the Penn State scandal involving former football coach Jerry Sandusky.

Examine how to balance the needs of vulnerable stakeholders against your duty to inform the public.

Strategies for telling the stories of soldiers, their families and citizens on the home front.

Use FOI laws to strengthen your reporting with public documents.

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

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

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

Learn how to research and report the kinds of human detail and vivid scenes that make your writing come alive.

How to find contacts, target your pitch and build your business in the freelance market.

This primer on the basics of writing and composition is for students enrolled in J202 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

This primer on the basics of writing and composition is for students enrolled in J202 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Don't let text, pictures and audio compete for the viewer's attention. Learn how words and images can work together to engage your audience.

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.

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