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  • Becoming a More Effective Reporter: Telling Untold Stories (Oct 2013)

    Online Group Seminar
    Apply by
    September 30 for this Online Group Seminar

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

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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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  • Building Effective News & Information Websites

    Online Group Seminar

    This hands-on, project-based course will help you develop web publishing skills from the ground up – no prior programming experience necessary.

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  • Building Effective News & Information Websites: HTML & CSS (March 2013)

    Online Group Seminar

    This hands-on, project-based course will help you develop web publishing skills from the ground up – no prior programming experience necessary.

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  • Building Effective News & Information Websites: jQuery & WordPress (September 2013)

    Online Group Seminar
    Apply by
    July 1 for this Online Group Seminar

    This hands-on, project-based course will help you create interactive, dynamic websites with cutting-edge tools and techniques.

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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 War at Home

    Seminar Snapshot

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

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  • E-Commerce Strategies: Digital Agency, Local Search, Local Interactives: API Training

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn 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.

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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: 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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  • How to Organize Your Sales Team for Success: API Training

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn to take advantage of strengths of the sales team by structuring them in a way to maximize and grow digital sales.

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • On the Road with Serious Intent: A Journalistic Approach to Travel Writing (March 2013)

    Online Group Seminar

    The essential skills you need to tell, and sell, travel stories.

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Writing Better Headlines & SEO Essentials (May 2013)

    Online Group Seminar

    In this intensive two-week course, you'll learn practical ways to write better headlines on the Web.

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  • Writing Better Headlines & SEO Essentials (September 2013)

    Online Group Seminar
    Apply by
    August 24 for this Online Group Seminar

    In this intensive two-week course, you'll learn practical ways to write better headlines on the Web.

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