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Leadership academy: Simple acts of communication and kindness

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    • Michael Anastasi shares simple techniques you can use to get the best out of your teams and colleagues.

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    Understanding the financial side of our business

    Learn how to make the budget work for you, rather than the other way around.

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    • Your power as an informal leader

    You don’t need to have rank and seniority to exert leadership. What you prioritize, what you value, how you listen, how you communicate, whose voices and views you feature, who you lift up, small gestures of mentorship, open-mindedness to advice and counsel — these all are informal acts of leadership.

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    • Management is a marathon

    Practical advice for new managers (and potential new managers) on overcoming obstacles, working effectively in a hybrid newsroom, pacing yourself and, always, moving forward, even when you hit that wall at Mile 20.

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    • Listening effectively: Lessons from an extreme extrovert

    Hear from Louisville editor Mary Irby-Jones on how she learned to stop talking so she could hear other people.

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    • Investigative Reporting: From Numbers to Narrative

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    • Data can be a powerful tool to find and tell unique stories, but sometimes it’s hard to know where to start. Part one in a two-part webinar series will introduce useful sources of data for a variety of beats and will explore techniques reporters can use to identify and track down additional data resources to enrich their storytelling.

    We’ll also discuss interesting datasets that newsrooms large and small have used to tell unique stories of value to their audiences. Part two will explore strategies for approaching a new dataset to scour it for unique story ideas to supercharge your reporting. We’ll discuss how to watch for red flags that could lead to errors and perform simple analyses to surface trends and outliers.

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    Google Earth Studio

    Learn how to use Google Earth Studio, Google Earth Pro, Google Earth Timelapse and Earth Measure Tool with training by author and data journalism expert Mike Reilley.

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    • Microsoft Excel 05 – What if

    The more data you have, the more questions you will have about it, and the more answers it can provide. Excel has a variety of conditional formulas that let you evaluate subsets of your data to find the stories to tell: If…Then formulas; Conditional Functions; XLOOKUP; Array Functions.

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    • Foundations of data journalism – Scraping

    Data scraping web pages with Google sheets, scraping PDFs with Tabula and PDFtoExcel. Build graphics with Flourish Studio. We’ll also explore how to scrape data from a photograph using Excel.

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    • Microsoft Excel 04 — Pivot tables

    Pivot table are the simple solution for some, and a rare kind of magic to others. In this session, we’ll demystify pivot tables and show you how you can use them to simplify your analysis and give you more options than ever in how you extract your story.

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    • Our ethics policy: Workshopping eight common scenarios

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    • Our combined new company has united behind a single ethics policy. Here’s a chance to get acquainted with the nuances of it, if you haven’t already.

    Manny Garcia and Jean Hodges led the conversation based around real-life scenarios that have come up. Our North Star in all these conversations is our Principles of Ethical Conduct for Newsrooms. It’s our living document that we build upon.

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    Trans 201

    How to tell holistic stories about trans and gender-diverse individuals. Topics include: Where are all the trans men? Where are the non-white trans folks? Reporting outside the framework of the gender binary. And understanding how your own gendered lens influences story bias.

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    • DEI tagging for editors and producers

    As your newsroom increases storytelling to reflect the communities we serve, what are best practices for tracking the content? Editors and producers are invited to join this session in which we will share revised tags to use for 2022 and what each tag means.

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    • Ethics around graphic violence imagery

    Guidance and best practices around videos containing graphic violence.

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    • Print design: Ethics and diversity

    The choices we make must be truthful, fair, balanced and complete. Each decision happens in the context of many other decisions, both in the same moment and over time.

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    • Protected: Table Stakes: Design-Do every day agile methodology in practice

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    PowerPoint 02: How to Use Shapes and Transitions to See the Story

    See the Story: Microsoft trainer Bill Monroe teaches you how to use shapes, transitions, morph and more in this walkthrough of PowerPoint. Excellent details for improving your decks.

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    • Packaging, proofing and design center workflows for the CCJ

    Making it all come together is a complex orchestra.

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    • Your handy guide to Presto in production

    The updated figures are below. The grand total is $242K, or $20K per period. It works out to $101 per paycheck for those involved.

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    • PowerPoint 01: Storytelling with PowerPoint

    Learn how to create a slide deck from a template and add basic content, speaker notes and launch your slideshow. Learn PowerPoint uses and tour the interface.

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    • Parse.ly for data nerds

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    • In the weeds for BI types.

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    Putting metrics to use on your beat

    What does success look like? How do you translate what your metrics are telling you into story ideas or deeper insights into what your audience is seeking – both for premium content and reaching new readers with top of funnel content?

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    • Metrics refresher: Overview of Parse.ly and Google Analytics dashboards

    This training is recommended for new employees. We cover the basics of how to use our metrics tools.

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    • Understanding our key audience segments

    Gannett has done extensive research into people interested in news — those who are in our audience today as well as those who aren’t — so we can better understand who we’re working for. These documents and workshops will help you understand the segments, what members of each segment want from us, and how we can earn them as subscribers.

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    • DEI tagging for editors and producers

    As your newsroom increases storytelling to reflect the communities we serve, what are best practices for tracking the content? Editors and producers are invited to join this session in which we will share revised tags to use for 2022 and what each tag means.

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    • Making digital audio part of your daily routine

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    • What can reporters and others do to grab audio consistently?

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    Rights-cleared music you can use

    Get the right sound, within intellectual property law.

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    • Safely reporting from protests and other tense events

    These are stressful times. Being out in the world as a journalist carries an element of risk. But a world without engaged journalists watching over it is risky, too. Our aim is to identify as many risks as we can and take steps to reduce them, prepare for them, and neutralize them if they do arise.

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    • 9 remote interviewing tips for journalists

    From the technical to the legal, how to make sure you’re covered when you can’t meet a source face-to-face.

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    • Digital audio (for editors)

    As an editor, why should you be driving audio? What metrics should you be looking at? And what ideas are working elsewhere?

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    • Protected: Table Stakes IV: Funnel occasional users to habitual and paying/valuable loyalists

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    Curate newsletters that win with readers

    Newsletters are a powerful tool to move readers down the subscriber funnel. Here’s how to master them.

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    • Develop an audience plan for a big winner in the making

    Audience plans are an outline of social, alert, boost and publish plans for a story we expect to be a big win.

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    • Unlock the value in evergreen stories

    Re-sharing allows us to grow subscribers through bringing forward interesting stories that retain enduring value.

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    • The art of “goosing” to extend the value of our best content

    We can improve premium stories that underperformed to help “goose” the story to get it out of the underperforming category and to assess what we could have done better.

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