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  • Brainstorming Great Ideas: Editors' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot

    How to brainstorm for breaking news, ongoing stories and enterprise, plus six keys to brainstorming.

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  • Census Coverage: Going Deep with Demographic and Economic Data

    Seminar Snapshot

    Let the experts show you how you can find great stories in the wealth of data collected by the Census Bureau.

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  • Coaching Writers: Editors' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot

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

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  • Covering Difficult Stories Solo

    Seminar Snapshot

    Telling stories and staying safe as a one-man-band journalist covering stories about people in difficult situations.

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  • Covering War at Home

    Seminar Snapshot

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

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  • Face-to-Face: "Testing Grounds"

    Seminar Snapshot

    Reporters Kris Hundley and Kathleen Flynn discuss their experience in producing "Testing Grounds," an award-winning story about drug testing in India.

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  • Face-to-Face: Lessons of an International Backpack Journalist

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn how a backpack journalist survives and reports in such places as Haiti, Juarez Mexico and East Africa.

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  • Face-to-Face: Reporting on Revolution

    Seminar Snapshot

    See Egypt through the eyes of independent journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous.

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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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  • 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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  • Finding the Right Voice and Approach for Your Stories

    Seminar Snapshot

    Produce and edit your stories with the right balance of elements, narration and mood.

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  • Hunt and Gather Details for Your Story

    Seminar Snapshot

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

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  • Improving Climate Change Coverage

    Seminar Snapshot

    Explore the crucial issues involved in covering global climate change.

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  • Layout-driven Editing: A Seminar Snapshot

    Seminar Snapshot

    How two newspapers implemented an innovative process in which stories are written to fit pre-designed page templates.

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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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  • Mario Garcia on WSJ Tabloid Design

    Seminar Snapshot

    Examine the tools and techniques used by the international editions of The Wall Street Journal.

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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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  • Natural Sound Packages: Video Storytelling Without Reporter Narration

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn how to let your subjects tell their own stories.

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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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  • Quick, Quality Video News Stories

    Seminar Snapshot

    Explore go-to video storytelling strategies on deadline.

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  • Reinventing The Capstone Class

    Seminar Snapshot

    Develop a multimedia program that prepares students to be active participants in today's journalism.

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  • Seven Daily Habits of Highly Effective Editing

    Seminar Snapshot

    Edit video as though you were composing your own symphony.

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  • Six Essential Skills to Maximize Your Storytelling Process

    Seminar Snapshot

    Be an efficient reporter by how you gather sound, video and moments.

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  • Social Media and Journalism: What Works and Why

    Seminar Snapshot

    Explore current uses, roles, opportunities and challenges in social media when it combines with journalism and some possible future outcomes.

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  • Sound and Voice: Breathe Life Into Your Stories

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn techniques to capture quality audio and strengthen your narrative voice.

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  • Storytelling in the Moment

    Seminar Snapshot

    Invite your audience into your story with techniques that build character and bring the environment to the screen.

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  • Surviving Solo: Be a Better Backpack Journalist

    Seminar Snapshot

    You don't have to sacrifice the quality of your video stories simply because you're reporting and producing on your own.

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  • The Changing Roles of the Journalist

    Seminar Snapshot

    Essential skills for the changing media landscape.

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  • The Editor's Toolkit: Editors' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot

    Pick up the tips, tricks (and, yes, secrets) of successful veteran editors

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  • The Ethical Investigator

    Seminar Snapshot

    Being ethical doesn't mean being timid. Find out what it takes to get the great stories -- the right way.

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  • Useful Lighting Techniques for Today's Video Assignment

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn how to set up individual or multiple lights — and which lights to avoid.

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  • Using History to Write Sports

    Seminar Snapshot

    Senior Sports Illustrated writer Alexander Wolff covers the ins and outs of writing the historic sports feature.

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  • Video Storytelling with the Pros: Discover the Magic Moments in Breaking News

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn how to uncover magic moments in a breaking news video story and to use them, along with natural sound, to bring subjects to life.

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  • Video Storytelling with the Pros: Doing It All Efficiently

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn how short-form techniques like sound bites, transitions, composition, clean sound and moments, can be used in long-form video storytelling.

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  • Video Storytelling with the Pros: Shooting Efficiently on Deadline

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn tips and tricks for being prepared for the unexpected during a video shoot for a story.

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  • Video Storytelling with the Pros: Shooting for the Web

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn how the instant nature of the web affects what you do and how it differs from TV.

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  • Writing Tools for Every Visual Storyteller

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn to transform your video reporting into compelling stories.

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