Becoming a More Effective Reporter: Telling Untold Stories (Oct 2013)
Online Group SeminarApply by
September 30 for this Online Group SeminarImprove your ability to find and tell stories off the beaten path in your community.
Becoming a More Effective Writer: Clarity and Organization (June 2012)
Online Group SeminarBuild the reporting and writing habits you need to organize your information better and write more clearly.
Becoming a More Effective Writer: Clarity and Organization (June 2013)
Online Group SeminarApply by
May 21 for this Online Group SeminarBuild the reporting and writing habits you need to organize your information better and write more clearly.
Brainstorming Great Ideas: Editors' Boot Camp
Seminar SnapshotHow to brainstorm for breaking news, ongoing stories and enterprise, plus six keys to brainstorming.
Coaching Writers: Editors' Boot Camp
Seminar SnapshotLearn strategies, techniques and questions that can help you coach writers to produce stories that are clear, focused, powerful and compelling.
Covering Difficult Stories Solo
Seminar SnapshotTelling stories and staying safe as a one-man-band journalist covering stories about people in difficult situations.
Covering War at Home
Seminar SnapshotStrategies for telling the stories of soldiers, their families and citizens on the home front.
E-Commerce Strategies: Digital Agency, Local Search, Local Interactives: API Training
Seminar SnapshotLearn how increasing the scope of your digital advertising and marketing services from a simple business directory to full-service local search and interactives impacts digital-only revenue.
Face-to-Face: Lessons of an International Backpack Journalist
Seminar SnapshotLearn how a backpack journalist survives and reports in such places as Haiti, Juarez Mexico and East Africa.
Face-to-Face: Reports From Gaza and The West Bank
Seminar SnapshotLearn methods on how to report from the West Bank or Gaza Strip from a veteran journalist.
Finding the Heart of the Story
Seminar SnapshotLearn essential writing techniques to produce compelling, sharply focused stories with strong underlying themes.
Finding the Right Voice and Approach for Your Stories
Seminar SnapshotProduce and edit your stories with the right balance of elements, narration and mood.
Generating Story Ideas: Seeing Stories All Around You
Seminar SnapshotLearn proven techniques to recognize and refine your best story ideas.
Hunt and Gather Details for Your Story
Seminar SnapshotLearn how to research and report the kinds of human detail and vivid scenes that make your writing come alive.
Layout-driven Editing: A Seminar Snapshot
Seminar SnapshotHow two newspapers implemented an innovative process in which stories are written to fit pre-designed page templates.
Making Dull Stories Sizzle
Seminar SnapshotLearn how to make a mundane assignment into a memorable video story.
Mario Garcia on WSJ Tabloid Design
Seminar SnapshotExamine the tools and techniques used by the international editions of The Wall Street Journal.
Mastering the Craft of Revision
Seminar SnapshotLearn revision techniques that will help you identify problems in your stories and make the changes, big and small, that make your writing stand out.
Natural Sound Packages: Video Storytelling Without Reporter Narration
Seminar SnapshotLearn how to let your subjects tell their own stories.
On the Road with Serious Intent: A Journalistic Approach to Travel Writing (March 2013)
Online Group SeminarThe essential skills you need to tell, and sell, travel stories.
Plagiarism in the 21st Century
Seminar SnapshotExamine plagiarism in the context of today's digital publishing.
Planning and Drafting Your Story
Seminar SnapshotLearn how to draft your story using a quick plan, outlining its most important parts.
Quick, Quality Video News Stories
Seminar SnapshotExplore go-to video storytelling strategies on deadline.
Reinventing The Capstone Class
Seminar SnapshotDevelop a multimedia program that prepares students to be active participants in today's journalism.
Reporters Without Editors: How to Edit Your Own Writing (April 2012)
Online Group SeminarOvercome the pitfalls of editing work that you have created and read your writing with fresh eyes to find and fix more errors.
Seven Daily Habits of Highly Effective Editing
Seminar SnapshotEdit video as though you were composing your own symphony.
Six Essential Skills to Maximize Your Storytelling Process
Seminar SnapshotBe an efficient reporter by how you gather sound, video and moments.
Social Media and Journalism: What Works and Why
Seminar SnapshotExplore current uses, roles, opportunities and challenges in social media when it combines with journalism and some possible future outcomes.
Sound and Voice: Breathe Life Into Your Stories
Seminar SnapshotLearn techniques to capture quality audio and strengthen your narrative voice.
Storytelling in the Moment
Seminar SnapshotInvite your audience into your story with techniques that build character and bring the environment to the screen.
Surviving Solo: Be a Better Backpack Journalist
Seminar SnapshotYou don't have to sacrifice the quality of your video stories simply because you're reporting and producing on your own.
The Changing Roles of the Journalist
Seminar SnapshotEssential skills for the changing media landscape.
The Editor's Toolkit: Editors' Boot Camp
Seminar SnapshotPick up the tips, tricks (and, yes, secrets) of successful veteran editors
The Ethical Investigator
Seminar SnapshotBeing ethical doesn't mean being timid. Find out what it takes to get the great stories -- the right way.
The Science and Art of Story Posting: API Training
Seminar SnapshotThis seminar snapshot from API's Transformation Tour shows how you can use analytics to determine how and to post content so that you can maximize your audience.
Useful Lighting Techniques for Today's Video Assignment
Seminar SnapshotLearn how to set up individual or multiple lights — and which lights to avoid.
Using History to Write Sports
Seminar SnapshotSenior Sports Illustrated writer Alexander Wolff covers the ins and outs of writing the historic sports feature.
Using Online Media Tools to Grow and Manage Communities
Seminar SnapshotLearn how to leverage online media tools to build and enhance communities, foster informative conversations and produce community action.
Video Storytelling with the Pros: Discover the Magic Moments in Breaking News
Seminar SnapshotLearn how to uncover magic moments in a breaking news video story and to use them, along with natural sound, to bring subjects to life.
Video Storytelling with the Pros: Doing It All Efficiently
Seminar SnapshotLearn how short-form techniques like sound bites, transitions, composition, clean sound and moments, can be used in long-form video storytelling.
