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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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  • 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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  • E-Commerce Strategies: Transforming Classified Car Ads: API Training

    Seminar Snapshot

    In this Seminar Snapshot, learn the value of user-focused marketplace advertising and e-commerce models for generating online ad revenue.

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Journalism Entrepreneurs: Making Money Building Your Business

    Seminar Snapshot

    Find out how founder of paidContent, Rafat Ali, took his company from a small apartment to selling it to the Guardian in 2010.

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  • Journalism Entrepreneurs: Making Money from Premium Content

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn how premium content and syndication allow journalism entrepreneurs to repurpose their work for significantly more revenue.

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  • Journalism Entrepreneurs: Making Money from Subscriptions

    Seminar Snapshot

    Subscriptions that work often share one of two characteristics. Find out what they are and whether your site fits the bill.

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  • Journalism Entrepreneurs: Making Your Startup Successful

    Seminar Snapshot

    Entrepreneur and author Mark Briggs offers six keys to success for those starting online media ventures.

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  • Journalism Entrepreneurs: Planning and Making Money From Events

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn how your organization can succeed with events, from setting goals and expectations to building a budget.

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  • Long-Tail Channels for Small and Medium Businesses: API Training

    Seminar Snapshot

    This Seminar Snapshot from API's Transformation Tour shows how tele-sales and the long-tail approach can dramatically boost your media company's digital revenue.

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 Science and Art of Story Posting: API Training

    Seminar Snapshot

    This 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.

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  • Using Analytics and Web Metrics to Grow Your Audience: API Training

    Seminar Snapshot

    This Seminar Snapshot from API's Transformation Tour shows you how to use analytic tools to understand digital audiences and how that information can shape your content strategies.

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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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