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  • Analytics 101: Understanding Digital Metrics

    Self-Directed Course

    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

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

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  • Avoiding Plagiarism and Fabrication

    Self-Directed Course

    Plagiarism and fabrication scandals can destroy careers and damage news organizations' credibility. Learn how to detect and avoid these legal and ethical lapses.

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  • Covering Climate Change

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn the science and policies behind climate change and pick up the reporting and writing skills needed to tell stronger stories about global climate change.

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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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  • Financial Literacy Basics: Producing Better Business Stories

    Self-Directed Course

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

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  • First Amendment for the High School Journalist

    Self-Directed Course

    Gain a better understanding of freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

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  • Freedom of Information and Your Right to Know

    Self-Directed Course

    Use FOI laws to strengthen your reporting with public documents and more.

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  • Getting It Right: Accuracy and Verification in the Digital Age

    Self-Directed Course

    It's a challenge to verifying information in a networked world. Get the knowledge and tools you need to evaluate what you hear, read and see.

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  • Haberde Bilgiyi Doğru Vermek: Dijital Çağda Bilgi Güvenilirliği ve Doğrulama

    Self-Directed Course

    Ağlardan oluşan günümüz habercilik dünyasında bilgi doğrulama zorlu bir mesele haline gelmiştir. Duyduklarınızı, okuduklarınızı ve gördüklerini değerlendirebilmek için gerekli bilgi ve araçları edinin.

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  • Handling Race and Ethnicity

    Self-Directed Course

    Examine whether and how to use racial and ethnic descriptions in news stories.

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  • Hands-on Fact-Checking: A Short Course

    Self-Directed Course

    A very practical guide to some of the most important skills that fact-checkers use in their everyday work.

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  • Improving Climate Change Coverage

    Seminar Snapshot

    Explore the crucial issues involved in covering global climate change.

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  • International Reporting Basics: What You Need to Know Before You Go

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn how to plan and pack for your trip, and how to gather information and stay safe once you arrive.

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  • Journalism and Trauma

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn how to compassionately interview victims and how covering traumatic events affects you.

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  • Lousy Listeners: How to Avoid Being One

    Self-Directed Course

    Better listeners are better leaders. Learn how to break bad listening habits and improve your listening skills.

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  • News Sense: The Building Blocks of News

    Self-Directed Course

    What makes an idea or event a news story? Explore the who, what, when, where, why and how of news.

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  • On the Beat: Covering Education

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn how to find your way around the U.S. education system: the standards, the people and the protocol.

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  • On the Beat: Covering Hospitals

    Self-Directed Course

    Step into the shoes of a rookie health beat reporter and investigate local hospitals on deadline.

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  • On the Beat: Covering the Courts

    Self-Directed Course

    Explore the court system and learn how to translate legal proceedings into clear stories.

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  • Online Media Law: The Basics for Bloggers and Other Publishers

    Self-Directed Course

    Guidelines on copyright, defamation and privacy for anyone who publishes content online.

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  • Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writers: Secrets of Their Craft

    Self-Directed Course

    In this course, we’ve compiled a dozen Pulitzer Prize-winning writers and master teachers to share the most reliable secrets of their craft. In a fre

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  • Religion, Culture and Society: Getting Beyond the Cliches

    Self-Directed Course

    Religion intersects nearly every story you cover. Learn how to tell those stories with greater context, skill and thoughtfulness.

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  • Reporting on Mental Health Conditions and Suicide

    Self-Directed Course

    Explore strategies and statistics to help you tell powerful stories with context, accuracy and sensitivity.

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  • Reporting on Nonprofits

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn the differences between nonprofits, what laws regulate them and how you can find information about their finances.

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  • Reporting on Sexual Violence

    Self-Directed Course

    Explore strategies and statistics to help you tell powerful stories with context, accuracy and sensitivity.

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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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  • Sources, Verification and Credibility

    Self-Directed Course

    Analyze and judge the reliability of news and information

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  • The Be a Reporter Game

    Self-Directed Course

    Practice the basics of newsgathering -- asking questions, verifying information -- while racing against a deadline.

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  • The Writer's Workbench: 50 Tools You Can Use

    Self-Directed Course

    Techniques to refine your storytelling and write with confidence.

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  • Understanding and Interpreting Polls

    Self-Directed Course

    Find out why polling works, how to evaluate survey methods and what questions to ask about polls.

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  • Understanding and Interpreting Polls (International)

    Self-Directed Course

    Find out why polling works, how to evaluate survey methods and what questions to ask about polls.

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  • Чувство новости: конструируем историю

    Self-Directed Course

    Что делает из события или идеи новость? Изучите где, когда, кем, как, почему и зачем рождается новостная история.

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  • دوره آموزشی درک خبر: آشنایی با اجزای سازنده خبر

    Self-Directed Course

    چه چیزی یک خبر یا ایده را ارزش خبری می بخشد؟ عناصر اصلی خبر را بررسی کنید.

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  • دوره آموزشی روزنامه نگاری و تروما

    Self-Directed Course

    بیاموزید چگونه با قربانیان دردمندانه مصاحبه کنید و چگونه رویدادهای دلخراشی را که روی شما تاثیر روانی بر جا می گذارد، پوشش خبری دهید.

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