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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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  • Becoming a More Effective Writer: Clarity and Organization (June 2012)

    Online Group Seminar

    Build the reporting and writing habits you need to organize your information better and write more clearly.

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  • Becoming a More Effective Writer: Clarity and Organization (June 2013)

    Online Group Seminar

    Build the reporting and writing habits you need to organize your information better and write more clearly.

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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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  • 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: 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: 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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  • 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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  • Generating Story Ideas: Seeing Stories All Around You

    Seminar Snapshot

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

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Plagiarism in the 21st Century

    Seminar Snapshot

    Examine plagiarism in the context of today's digital publishing.

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  • Planning and Drafting Your Story

    Seminar Snapshot

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

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  • Quick, Quality Video News Stories

    Seminar Snapshot

    Explore go-to video storytelling strategies on deadline.

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  • Reporters Without Editors: How to Edit Your Own Writing (April 2012)

    Online Group Seminar

    Overcome the pitfalls of editing work that you have created and read your writing with fresh eyes to find and fix more errors.

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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 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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  • Using Online Media Tools to Grow and Manage Communities

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn how to leverage online media tools to build and enhance communities, foster informative conversations and produce community action.

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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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  • Write Your Heart Out: The Craft of the Personal Essay (January 2013)

    Online Group Seminar

    Discover powerful stories from your life and tell them in ways that will resonate with others, whether in print or online.

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  • Writers Without Editors: How to Edit Your Own Writing (April 2013)

    Online Group Seminar

    Overcome the pitfalls of editing work that you have created and read your writing with fresh eyes to find and fix more errors.

    Learn More
  • Writers Without Editors: How to Edit Your Own Writing (October 2013)

    Online Group Seminar
    Apply by
    September 15 for this Online Group Seminar

    Overcome the pitfalls of editing work that you have created and read your writing with fresh eyes to find and fix more errors.

    Learn More
  • Writing Tools for Every Visual Storyteller

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn to transform your video reporting into compelling stories.

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