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5 takeaways: How to use Microsoft Excel for stories

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:

 

NEXT WEBINAR: Digital content marketing for journalists

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.

Then, in June, Craig Silverman, founder of Regret the Error blog and Poynter adjunct faculty, presents an overview of what media organizations got it right and what media organizations got it wrong - and why - during the coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects. Register now.
 
He is followed two weeks later by GateHouse Media New England Regional Digital Editor Nicole Simmons, who will be presenting a webinar on Vine video as a storytelling tool. Register now.

NEXT WEBINAR: Excel for journalists

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

In two weeks, Digital First Social Media Editor Buffy Andrews will be presenting a webinar on digital promotion for journalists.
 
Then, in June, GateHouse Media New England Regional Digital Editor Nicole Simmons will be presenting a webinar on Vine video as a storytelling tool.

Five takeaways to make enterprise reporting a part of your newsroom

A recent GateHouse webinar focused on how enterprise reporting does not need to take all of a newsroom's time and energy.

2013 webinar schedule

A preview of the upcoming webinars offered by GateHouse Media News & Interactive Division.

Clean up your copy: Tips and advice to protect your credibility

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.

Learn how to harness social media using Storify

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.

5 questions from the Saxtotech webinar

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.

Community blogging success stories takeaways include tips from editors

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.

3 things you'll learn at Thursday's webinar on 9/11 coverage tools

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:

Watchdog reporting webinar PowerPoint, recording

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.

Sign up for upcoming webinars on mobile reporting, online tools and Twitter

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.

Free webinars June 23-24 offer tips on econ reporting

The Associated Press and APME offer a free webinar on explaning the U.S. financial crisis to readers.

Download webinar: Facebook Basics, presented by Sarah Corbitt

Facebook Basics, a webinar presented by Sarah Corbitt, is available here to download as a PowerPoint.

Facebook Basics webinar takeaways include best practices

Check out these takeaways from our Facebook Basics webinar, presented Thursday by GateHouse national trainer Sarah Corbitt.

Reminder: Sign up for Facebook and Watchdog webinars

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!

How to edit content syndicated to your carousel from GHNS

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 training presentation: Online storytelling

Download the online storytelling training presentation at this link.

Training Schedule

Updated May 21, 2013 @ 01:30 PM

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.

Then, in June, Craig Silverman, founder of Regret the Error blog and Poynter adjunct faculty, presents an overview of what media organizations got it right and what media organizations got it wrong - and why - during the coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects. Register now.
 
He is followed two weeks later by GateHouse Media New England Regional Digital Editor Nicole Simmons, who will be presenting a webinar on Vine video as a storytelling tool. Register now.

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