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  • 9 Ways to Edit Yourself (or Anyone Else)

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn how nine simple tips can help you edit just about anything in a systematic way.

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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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  • A Guide to Difficult Conversations

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    You can’t be too nice to have a tough conversation. Learn how to be strategic and carry out difficult conversations with confidence.

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  • Adding Verbs with Verve and Volume to Your Writing

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Tune up verbs to make writing sing and dance.

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  • Advanced Twitter for Journalism

    Webinar
    Price: $34.95

    Twitter is not just a source of news. Learn how it can be a platform for developing breaking news out loud.

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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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  • 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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  • Break Through the Noise: SEO and Online Content Sharing for PR and Marketing

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn to increase content visibility through an integrated marketing plan that catches readers’ eyes without compromising style and ethics.

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  • Clarity is Key: Making Writing Clean and Concise

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Learn to clarify and streamline your writing by using straightforward words and stronger nouns and verbs.

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  • Coaching Writers: 7 Questions Every Editor Should Ask

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Coaching a writer requires that you know how they work. This Webinar explains how to interview a writer in order to coach her effectively.

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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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  • 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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  • Curating Content: How to Aggregate Coverage

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    How do make sense of the news on the Web for your readers? Get the tools you need to curate content quickly, accurately and effectively.

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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 101

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Whether you work behind-the-scenes with reporters or need to review your own work, here’s a process to keep sources and facts straight.

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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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  • Finding Your Writing Voice: A Fun But Never-Ending Journey

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    In this webinar, we will tackle some of the essential techniques that make a distinctive writer. Learn new skills, improve your voice and be inspired.

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  • Getting Off the Beaten Path: Opportunities for Journalists in Marketing

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Let’s talk about what it’s like for journalists in marketing – and if it’s for you.

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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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  • Getting to the Point: Editing for Structure and Focus

    Webinar
    Price: $34.95

    Learn how to evaluate and improve the structure of your content so readers stay hooked.

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  • Going Deep in the Digital Age: Interviewing and Capturing Details

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    Find the soul of your stories with probing questions while using social media to archive, document and supplement your reporting.

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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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  • Help! for Writers

    Self-Directed Course
    Price: $29.95

    Unlock more than 200 solutions to some of the most common problems writers face in any platform or genre.

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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 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 Use Detail in Your Writing

    Webinar
    Price: $29.95

    How to collect and select details that turn routine reporting into powerful storytelling.

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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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  • 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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  • Investigative Reporting: From Numbers to Narrative

    Webinar
    Price: $39.95

    In this two-part webinar, you'll learn resources for finding data and strategies for uncovering the story in the data.

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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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