Becoming a More Effective Reporter: Telling Untold Stories (Oct 2013)
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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 30 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.
Census Coverage: Going Deep with Demographic and Economic Data
Seminar SnapshotLet the experts show you how you can find great stories in the wealth of data collected by the Census Bureau.
Connect with Communities Using Government Documents
Seminar SnapshotSteve Suo, editor of Nozzl Media, talks about the streaming news feeds his company customizes for news organizations.
Covering Child Sex Abuse: Lessons from the Sandusky Story
Seminar SnapshotPulitzer Prize winner Sara Ganim describes how she approached her reporting of the Penn State scandal involving former football coach Jerry Sandusky.
Covering Difficult Stories Solo
Seminar SnapshotTelling stories and staying safe as a one-man-band journalist covering stories about people in difficult situations.
Covering Foster Care
Seminar SnapshotAvoid common misconceptions andquick-fix stories about foster care and get tools to put stories in context.
Covering War at Home
Seminar SnapshotStrategies for telling the stories of soldiers, their families and citizens on the home front.
Face-to-Face: "Testing Grounds"
Seminar SnapshotReporters Kris Hundley and Kathleen Flynn discuss their experience in producing "Testing Grounds," an award-winning story about drug testing in India.
Face-to-Face: Country at a Crossroads
Seminar SnapshotLouisa Lim, NPR’s Beijing correspondent, spoke to us just days before China’s government announced its new leadership.
Face-to-Face: Human Rights Reporting in Morocco
Seminar SnapshotAida Alami and Mary Stucky discuss human rights reporting for international news outlets from abroad.
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: Nuclear Security in the Middle East
Seminar SnapshotFormer embedded war reporter covers Mideast nuclear security issues.
Face-to-Face: Reporting Amid Danger
Seminar SnapshotIn this session, Osman discusses his story about Somali Olympic athletes training on the “road of death”; the story of rape in refugee camps; and the story about young British-Somalis returning to Somalia.
Face-to-Face: Reporting from a Rain Forest
Seminar SnapshotFung discusses her news consumption habits and shares what she wishes she had known early in her journalism career.
Face-to-Face: Reporting on Revolution
Seminar SnapshotSee Egypt through the eyes of independent journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous.
Face-to-Face: Reporting on the Border
Seminar SnapshotLearn how one reporter on the borderland beat covers drug trafficking and immigration.
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.
Generating Story Ideas: Seeing Stories All Around You
Seminar SnapshotLearn proven techniques to recognize and refine your best story ideas.
How to Make Stimulus Spending a Local Story
Seminar SnapshotTips for finding out what share of the $787 billion pie is coming to your area -- and if the recipients are deserving.
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.
Improving Climate Change Coverage
Seminar SnapshotExplore the crucial issues involved in covering global climate change.
Making Dull Stories Sizzle
Seminar SnapshotLearn how to make a mundane assignment into a memorable video story.
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.
New Sources of Digital Content: API Training
Seminar SnapshotThis 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.
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.
Quick, Quality Video News Stories
Seminar SnapshotExplore go-to video storytelling strategies on deadline.
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.
Reporting & Writing About Development in the World
Online Group SeminarExplore the navigational tools and techniques to report on issues that affect nations and people.
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.
Strengthening Your Journalism With Clarity and Accuracy
Online Group SeminarThis course will help you strengthen your reporting and writing skills, especially focusing on reporting on the government, courts, military and NGOs.
Using History to Write Sports
Seminar SnapshotSenior Sports Illustrated writer Alexander Wolff covers the ins and outs of writing the historic sports feature.
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.
Video Storytelling with the Pros: Shooting Efficiently on Deadline
Seminar SnapshotLearn tips and tricks for being prepared for the unexpected during a video shoot for a story.
