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NewsU offers webinar on information gathering [Worldwide]

Date: 1/21/13

Journalists worldwide who are interested in improving their information-gathering skills can attend this webinar.

News University, the e-learning arm of the Poynter Institute, offers a webinar, "Hunt and Gather Details for Your Story," which can be viewed at any time.

Topics include: moving beyond talking heads to report for the senses; finding moments that bring readers to the heart of the matter; observing and entering subjects' lives; and transporting readers into a moment, an experience or an emotion.

Course instructor Thomas French is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, and teaches reporting and writing in newsrooms and at conferences around the world.

This webinar costs US$45 to attend and is part of five-part training package, "The Writing Process: Improve Your Writing Task in Five Steps."

For more information, click here.