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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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  • Araştırmacı Haberciliğe Giriş

    Self-Directed Course

    Araştırmacı habercilikte inandırıcı ürünler ortaya çıkarmanın yollarını öğrenin

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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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  • 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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  • Cómo cubrir el cambio climático

    Self-Directed Course

    Aprenda sobre la ciencia y la política del cambio climático, así como las técnicas necesarias para producir informes más sólidos sobre el calentamiento global.

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  • Connect with Communities Using Government Documents

    Seminar Snapshot

    Steve Suo, editor of Nozzl Media, talks about the streaming news feeds his company customizes for news organizations.

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  • Covering Cannabis

    Self-Directed Course

    Take this course to learn the proper terms, legal definitions and resources for reporting responsibly on cannabis.

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  • Covering Child Sex Abuse: Lessons from the Sandusky Story

    Seminar Snapshot

    Pulitzer Prize winner Sara Ganim describes how she approached her reporting of the Penn State scandal involving former football coach Jerry Sandusky.

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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 Difficult Stories Solo

    Seminar Snapshot

    Telling stories and staying safe as a one-man-band journalist covering stories about people in difficult situations.

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  • Covering Foster Care

    Seminar Snapshot

    Avoid common misconceptions andquick-fix stories about foster care and get tools to put stories in context.

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  • Covering Islam in America

    Self-Directed Course

    Learn the religious, social, political and geographical facts about Islam so you can tackle stories with confidence and context.

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  • Covering the Affordable Care Act

    Self-Directed Course

    Develop news coverage to help people get the information they need and guide them through the changing healthcare landscape.

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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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  • Covering Water Quality: What You Need to Know

    Self-Directed Course

    Understand the complex environmental issues and find resources to tell compelling stories.

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  • Deadly Force: Using Data to Report Accurately on Community Policing

    Self-Directed Course

    Using police-community relations as a starting point, learn how to use data and solid reporting to turn a hunch or an odd detail into a groundbreaking story.

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  • Developing Sources: Reporters' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn to build relationships with the people in your community or when you're out on assignment as a reporter.

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  • Environmental Reporting: An Introduction

    Self-Directed Course

    Do better environmental journalism, from idea generation to publication, with confidence and context.

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  • Face-to-Face: "Testing Grounds"

    Seminar Snapshot

    Reporters Kris Hundley and Kathleen Flynn discuss their experience in producing "Testing Grounds," an award-winning story about drug testing in India.

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  • Face-to-Face: Country at a Crossroads

    Seminar Snapshot

    Louisa Lim, NPR’s Beijing correspondent, spoke to us just days before China’s government announced its new leadership.

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  • Face-to-Face: Human Rights Reporting in Morocco

    Seminar Snapshot

    Aida Alami and Mary Stucky discuss human rights reporting for international news outlets from abroad.

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  • Face-to-Face: Nuclear Security in the Middle East

    Seminar Snapshot

    Former embedded war reporter covers Mideast nuclear security issues.

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  • Face-to-Face: Reporting Amid Danger

    Seminar Snapshot

    In 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.

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  • Face-to-Face: Reporting from a Rain Forest

    Seminar Snapshot

    Fung discusses her news consumption habits and shares what she wishes she had known early in her journalism career.

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  • Face-to-Face: Reporting on Revolution

    Seminar Snapshot

    See Egypt through the eyes of independent journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous.

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  • Face-to-Face: Reporting on the Border

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn how one reporter on the borderland beat covers drug trafficking and immigration.

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  • Face-to-Face: Reporting on the Human Cost of Gold

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  • Face-to-Face: Reports From Gaza and The West Bank

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn methods on how to report from the West Bank or Gaza Strip from a veteran journalist.

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  • Face-to-Face: Undercover in Bahrain

    Seminar Snapshot

    Mae Ying Welsh discusses how she produced the award-winning documentary "Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark"

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Five Steps to Multimedia Storytelling

    Self-Directed Course

    Discover the basic steps necessary to organize a story in a multimedia format.

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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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  • Generating Story Ideas: Reporters' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn to encourage your own curiosity about the world and find the true potential behind any story.

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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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  • Get Me Rewrite: The Craft of Revision

    Self-Directed Course

    Review your work with fresh eyes to fine-tune awkward passages.

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  • Getting in the Door to Get Access to Sources: Reporters' Boot Camp

    Seminar Snapshot

    Learn how to get people to talk to you, especially if they don't want to talk to you.

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