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  • 9 Ways You Drive Readers Away (And 9 Tips to Keep Them Reading)

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Use these strategies to make sure the readers you've drawn in to your writing aren't driven away.

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  • Analytics 101: Understanding Digital Metrics

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: $29.95

    Learn about digital analytics: how to interpret and apply them to real-world situations.

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  • Audience Analytics for Journalists

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: $49.95

    Learn how to integrate an analytics strategy into your busy schedule and change content creation and publication habits accordingly.

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  • Best Practices for Using Eyewitness Footage

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Surveillance video, terrorist executions and other graphic footage can need special care. Learn the questions to ask in this webinar.

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  • Beyond the Byline: A Journalist's Guide to Personal Branding

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn why and how to effectively build your personal brand as a freelance or full-time journalist.

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  • Connecting as a Columnist: Your Voices, Your Choices

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    What goes into creating a distinctive -- and appealing -- columnist's voice?

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  • Covering Drones in U.S. Airspace and in Your Community

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    How to tackle the privacy and safety issues around the rising use of drones by law enforcement, companies and others.

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  • Covering Immigration Enforcement

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn how to cover immigration enforcement, including arrests, detention and deportation, amid rapid changes in policy and practice.

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  • Covering the Election Online, From Tweet to App

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Your digital audience cares about politics, but may not be political junkies. Learn how to reach them in this webinar.

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  • Craft Effective Direct Outreach Messages: Digital Experiences That Drive Results, Part 3

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn strategies for delivering digital content directly to targeted audiences with the use of newsletters and mobile messaging.

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  • Cultivate Innovation: Make Room for Play at Work

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Work and play belong together, especially when building a new team or new products.

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  • Data Visualization for Journalists: Stripping the Dread from the Graphics

    Webinar
    Price: $49.95

    Learn how to make data visualizations, because it's not just for the designers and programmers anymore.

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  • Designing Beyond Print: Owning Your Work Across Platforms

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Still designing primarily for print? This webinar will help you expand to any platform.

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  • Don’t Get Fooled Again: Best Practices for Online Verification

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn how to spot online hoaxes and verify content, images and video you find on social networks.

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  • Editing Entertainment and Pop Culture Writing

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Style remains serious business, even if the topics are entertaining. Learn the difference and similarities with traditional editing.

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  • Fact-Checking and Debunking: Covering Rumors, Hoaxes and Gossip

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Explore tips and strategies for dealing with the onslaught of questionable viral content, fake news articles, rumors and other unverified information that spreads online

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  • Financial Literacy Basics: Producing Better Business Stories

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: $29.95

    Learn to decipher financial information and bring context and depth to financial news.

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  • Finding and Nurturing the Secret Stories Others Miss

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn to look at the landscape of your writing territory with a new vision, in a webinar to help you find and develop the great stories others miss.

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  • Five Steps to Stronger Data Visualization

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn how well-edited data can reveal patterns and connections to a bigger picture.

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  • Getting Serious about Freelance Food Writing

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Everybody is writing about food, but is anyone making any money? Learn to recognize and respond to what the market wants so you can get what you want.

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  • Getting Started with Mobile Reporting

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn about the story techniques, training, technology and workflows that enable quality mobile journalism.

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  • Grow Audience Via Social Media: Digital Experiences That Drive Results, Part 4

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn strategies for increasing the number of followers, likes and shares on social media.

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  • How and When to Shoot Video with a Smartphone

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Whether you find yourself in a breaking news situation without a camera or never use a camera, you can make professional news video with your smartphone.

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  • How News Organizations Can Make The Most Of Snapchat

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    How to make Snapchat work for your newsroom (selfies encouraged).

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  • How to Cover Big News As It Breaks

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn what you can do to prepare for big breaking news and best practices for covering these stories live over social media

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  • How to Fact-Check Politics and the Media: A Primer

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Politicians, public officials and others make all kinds of claims. Here’s your guide to the basics of fact-checking published statements.

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  • How to Power Your Reporting With Social Media

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Explore the best ways to be a digital reporter in the digital age. We’ll show you how to be as confident working a beat from your laptop as you are walking a beat in your community.

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  • How to Report on Money in College Sports and the NCAA

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Covering the NCAA amid legal challenges, rule changes and conference changes

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  • How to Write Sharper Social Headlines

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Bring more readers to your stories with headlines that pop on social feeds.

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  • How to Write Short and Well

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn the most reliable tools for writing short – across media platforms – and well.

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  • Images on a Deadline

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Research says that visuals increase social media engagement, but where those images come from can make a huge difference to your audience.

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  • Immersive Storytelling with 360-Degree Video and 3D Virtual Reality

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    A primer for producing compelling 360-degree videos and 3D virtual reality content.

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  • Improve Search Optimization: Digital Experiences That Drive Results, Part 2

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn strategies for maximizing results through search optimization.

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  • Improve Your Storytelling Through Restorative Narrative

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    An introduction to Restorative Narratives -- a storytelling genre that has the potential to strengthen media coverage & communities.

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  • Interviewing: The Art of the Two-Way Conversation

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    From newscasts to podcasts, learn how to turn formal, stiff and boring interviews into lively and complete stories.

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  • Investigating the Internet: How to Sniff Out Scams

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn the latest tools and techniques for investigating websites, people and social accounts online.

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  • Leadership Advice for Our Age of Disruption, Misperception and Outlandish Expectations

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Nothing abides: Get some leadership advice from the ancient Greeks for our age of disruption, misperception and outlandish expectations.

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  • Lighting Tips and Tricks for Better Pictures and Video

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    There is a quantum leap between good lighting and great lighting. Improve your work right away with the skills and tricks in this Webinar.

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  • LinkedIn for Journalists and Educators

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn how to find potential sources, break news stories and promote your content on LinkedIn.

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  • Making a Side Hustle Work for Your Journalism Career

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn to plan, execute and promote a side project (at work or after hours) that will feed your creativity and further your career.

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