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  • Adding Verbs with Verve and Volume to Your Writing

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Tune up verbs to make writing sing and dance.

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  • Best Feature Ideas: AASFE’s Show & Steal

    Webinar
    Price: $27.95

    Take away the creative ideas from the country’s best arts and features coverage.

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  • Clarity is Key: Making Writing Clean and Concise

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

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

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  • Finding the Heart of the Story

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: $45.00

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

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  • Generating Story Ideas: Seeing Stories All Around You

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: $45.00

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

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  • Getting Started With Google Fusion Tables

    Webinar
    Price: $34.95

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

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  • Help! for Writers

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: $29.95

    Unlock more than 200 solutions to some of the most common problems writers face in any platform or genre.

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  • How to Use Detail in Your Writing

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

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

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  • How to Write Short and Well

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

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

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  • Hunt and Gather Details for Your Story

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: $45.00

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

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  • Jumpstarting Your Freelance Career: Marketing and Business Basics

    Webinar
    Price: $27.95

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

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  • Making Words, Pictures and Sound Work Together

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    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.

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  • Mastering Revision: Polish Your Writing Like a Pro

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    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
    Price: $45.00

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

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

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

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

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

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

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  • Order of the Word: The Secret to Powerful Prose

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    How to put words in the right place at the right time for maximum effect. With Poynter's Roy Peter Clark.

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  • Planning and Drafting Your Story

    Seminar Snapshot
    Price: $45.00

    Learn how to draft your story using a quick plan, outlining its most important parts.

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  • Political Fact-Checking: Tips and Tricks for the 2012 Election

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn tips and tricks about political fact-checking from the editor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning website, PolitiFact.

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  • Reporting and Writing Scenes

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn essential reporting and writing techniques to produce compelling, cinematic scenes that enrich your stories.

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  • Short Narrative Bursts: Social Media Writing

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    The art to lively writing in a limited space.

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  • The Art and Science of Editing

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn to identify when you need to edit something, when you don’t and how to explain your changes to others.

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  • The Powerful Effects of Short Writing

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn the power and versatility of short writing from examples across media platforms.

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  • Tumblr for Journalists: Best Practices and Strategies

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn how to use Tumblr to maximize your storytelling, research and social community engagement.

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  • What Makes a Pulitzer Prize Feature Story?

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    One Pulitzer juror's observations about the difference between a good feature story and a great one.

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  • Write with Voice and Tone

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Develop a distinct writing style that will help you connect to your readers--in print and online.

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  • Writing for Your Website: How to Make Readers Stick

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn essential writing techniques that will make sure your content aligns with your audience’s reading habits.

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  • Writing Successful Profiles

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Go beyond the obvious in your feature stories and get new techniques for bringing a character to life for your readers.

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