Microsoft Excel is a powerful tool for journalists working with data. With some very basic skills, you can organize and analyze numbers you routinely come across in your beat and start chasing down new data sets to explore for stories.
David Riley, regional story bank editor for GateHouse Media New England, recently led a webinar called, “A Beginner’s Guide to Excel for Journalists.” You can find a quick primer on Excel for beginners here.
Here are five takeaways from the presentation:
Digital First Social Media Editor Buffy Andrews will be presenting a webinar on digital promotion for journalists this Thursday, May 23 from 3 - 4 pm Eastern. Register now.
Join editor David Riley as he unmasks the mysteries of Excel and shows how journalists can use it to improve their information gathering. Register now.
A recent GateHouse webinar focused on how enterprise reporting does not need to take all of a newsroom's time and energy.
A preview of the upcoming webinars offered by GateHouse Media News & Interactive Division.
There are fewer safety nets in the copy editing process, so it is important that everyone in the newsroom takes part in ensuring stories are as clean, balanced and accurate as possible before they are sent to Design House.
Storify is a great way to help your readers sort through the flood of posts on social media such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. You enhance your own coverage by weaving together what your readers are saying. This is not aggregation – when the web automatically scrapes through sites and shows you all the hits. This is curation – you decide which posts add value to a conversation and present them in a way that makes sense to your readers.
A lot of newsrooms got a first glimpse of the new content management system being implemented across most newsrooms in GateHouse this year during a webinar last week with Saxotech. For those who missed the last webinar, a second one will be held at noon EDT Thursday, April 12.
Check out these tips and best practices for recruiting and maintaining your community bloggers from the webinar presented Thursday, Jan. 26. You can download the Powerpoint presentation and the editors' Q&A on best practices.
GateHouse News Service used some emerging social media tools to cover the anniversary of 9/11 this month. Here's what you'll learn about them at a webinar on Thursday:
If you missed the watchdog reporting webinar given by Mike Tharp earlier this month, you can check out the PowerPoint and the recorded webinar here.
Check out the lineup on GateHouse Media's webinars, including mobile reporting and desktop tools for reporters, plus Twitter basics and tools. Be sure to sign up now.
The Associated Press and APME offer a free webinar on explaning the U.S. financial crisis to readers.
Facebook Basics, a webinar presented by Sarah Corbitt, is available here to download as a PowerPoint.
Check out these takeaways from our Facebook Basics webinar, presented Thursday by GateHouse national trainer Sarah Corbitt.
Our webinar series continues today with Facebook basics, presented by GateHouse Media trainer Sarah Corbitt. And next week, we have a watchdog reporting webinar, presented by Mike Tharp, executive editor of the award-winning Merced Star-Sun. The webinars are free for GateHouse Media employees. Sign up now!
Recent upgrades to Zope make it possible for your newsroom to add to and edit the syndicated content packages posted to your carousels from GateHouse News Service. Here's how.
Download the online storytelling training presentation at this link.
Digital First Social Media Editor Buffy Andrews will be presenting a webinar on digital promotion for journalists this Thursday, May 23 from 3 - 4 pm Eastern. Register now.
