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  • API Transformation Tour: Future of Mobile Publishing Resources and Links

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn how consumers' shift to mobile devices has changed the market, mobile web strategies and native apps, and sell mobile advertising.

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  • API Transformation Tour: Selling Digital Products Resources and Links

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn to take advantage of the strenghts of sales teams, product knowledge and focus on emerging products.

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  • Audience Growth and Digital Content Strategies: API Training

    Self-Directed Course

    Your guide to key strategies for your digital content that can help your organization improve its digital presence and grow audience.

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  • Beyond the Inverted Pyramid: Creating Alternative Story Forms

    Self-Directed Course

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

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  • Cleaning Your Copy: Grammar, Style and More

    Self-Directed Course

    Finding and fixing the most common style, grammar and punctuation errors.

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  • Coaching Tomorrow's Journalists

    Self-Directed Course

    Working with teen journalists can be a challenge. Find the assistance and resources you need in this course.

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  • Color in News Design

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn how the visual elements of color, contrast and dimension complement the written word.

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  • Copyright Law and Fair Use for Journalists (Beta)

    Self-Directed Course

    This course will help journalists understand what constitutes fair use of content, particularly online content, and debunk copyright myths.

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  • Covering Climate Change

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn the science and policies behind climate change and pick up the reporting and writing skills needed to tell stronger stories about global climate change.

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  • Covering Water Quality: What You Need to Know

    Self-Directed Course

    Understand the complex environmental issues and find resources to tell compelling stories.

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  • Freedom of Information

    Self-Directed Course

    Use FOI laws to strengthen your reporting with public documents.

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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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  • Introduction to Ethical Decision-Making

    Self-Directed Course

    Ethics is not separate from the daily work of journalists. Learn the process before you're faced with a tough call on deadline.

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  • Introduction to Sports Reporting

    Self-Directed Course

    Find and tell engaging stories from sports events.

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  • Journalism Fundamentals: Craft & Values

    Self-Directed Course

    Explore essential journalism skills and principles in this introduction to producing news.

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Newsgathering Law & Liability: A Guide for Reporting

    Self-Directed Course

    Gather and report news more effectively while avoiding legal liability.

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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: Writing Obituaries

    Self-Directed Course

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

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  • Online Media Law: The Basics for Bloggers and Other Publishers

    Self-Directed Course

    Guidelines on copyright, defamation and privacy for anyone who publishes content online.

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  • Online Project Development: Part 1

    Self-Directed Course

    Examine the five steps for creating successful Web projects and how they were used in award-winning work.

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  • Religion, Culture and Society: Getting Beyond the Cliches

    Self-Directed Course

    Religion intersects nearly every story you cover. Learn how to tell those stories with greater context, skill and thoughfulness.

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  • Reporting Across Platforms

    Self-Directed Course

    Explore the different approaches you need to report for online, print and broadcast stories.

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  • Reporting on Sexual Violence

    Self-Directed Course

    Explore strategies and statistics to help you tell powerful stories with context, accuracy and sensitivity.

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  • Sources, Verification and Credibility

    Self-Directed Course

    Analyze and judge the reliability of news and information

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  • Telling Stories with Sound

    Self-Directed Course

    Explore how to create effective narratives by gathering, processing and mixing audio.

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  • The Be a Reporter Game

    Self-Directed Course

    Practice the basics of newsgathering -- asking questions, verifying information -- while racing against a deadline.

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  • Understanding and Interpreting Polls

    Self-Directed Course

    Find out why polling works, how to evaluate survey methods and what questions to ask about polls.

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  • USFSP Digital Masters Program: Introduction to Journalism

    Self-Directed Course

    This course about the basic of journalism is specifically for USFSP students.

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  • Video News Editing: The Remixer Game

    Self-Directed Course

    Explore how video editing influences your perception of news in this activity from Link TV.

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  • Watching TV News: How To Be a Smarter Viewer

    Self-Directed Course

    There's more to being a news consumer than just watching the news. Learn to evaluate TV news and become a discriminating consumer.

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  • Writing for the Ear

    Self-Directed Course

    Whether you're new to audio storytelling or want to improve your radio broadcasts, podcasts, slide shows or videos, you'll learn how to tell compelling stories.

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  • Чувство новости: конструируем историю

    Self-Directed Course

    Что делает из события или идеи новость? Изучите где, когда, кем, как, почему и зачем рождается новостная история.

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  • دوره آموزشی درک خبر: آشنایی با اجزای سازنده خبر

    Self-Directed Course

    چه چیزی یک خبر یا ایده را ارزش خبری می بخشد؟ عناصر اصلی خبر را بررسی کنید.

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