Welcome to ABC Professional Development, a series of tutorials designed to improve your knowledge of ABC products, service and resources. Each tutorial consists of a demonstration as well as handouts and/or worksheets to help you retain what you learned.

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A Basic Guide to Newspaper Online Publisher's Statement Filing (September 2009)

The following is a step-by-step Publisher's Statement filing tutorial for newspaper members.

Introduction/Handouts (Important—please read)

Logging in to the Publisher Filing Center (Approx. run time: 30 seconds)

The Newspaper Menu (Approx. run time: 50 seconds)

Entering Paragraphs 1 and 2 (Approx. run time: 1 minute)

Entering Quarterly Averages (Approx. run time: 30 seconds)

Entering Balance of Publisher's Statement (Approx. run time: 2 minutes)

Paragraph 5 (Approx. run time: 1 minute)

Submitting Your Publisher's Statement and FAS-FAX Data (Approx. run time: 30 seconds)



Preprint Projection Center: A Newspaper's Guide to Submitting Data to the PPC (January 2009)

ABC's Bridget Fleagle explains how newspapers can enter their preprint projections, bonus days and frequency changes to the PPC tool.

Introduction/Handouts

Tutorial (Approx. run time: 9 minutes)



Using the Audience-FAX eTrends Tool (January 2009)

ABC's Bridget Fleagle walks you through the free Audience-FAX eTrends Tool.

Introduction/Handouts

Tutorial (Approx. run time: 5 minutes)



Using eStatements (June 2008)

Watch as ABC's Gladys Searcy explains how to customize your results in eStatements using filters and batch processing reports.

Introduction/Handouts

Tutorial (Approx. run time: 4 minutes)



Using Search Methods to Customize eFAS-FAX (June 2008)

ABC's Gladys Searcy demonstrates the new search features of eFAS-FAX to create custom reports.

Introduction/Handouts

Tutorial (Approx. run time: 5 minutes)



An Overview of the New e-Data Suite of Products (May 2008)

In this tutorial, ABC's Gladys Searcy gives you a sneak peek at the soon to be released new e-Data suite of tools.

Introduction/Handouts

Tutorial (Approx. run time: 6 minutes)



Getting the Most Out of ABC's Web Site (Nov. 2007)

In this discussion, ABC's Elise Baer gives an overview of the ABC Web site and points out special areas of interest for ABC publisher members.

Introduction/Handouts

Tutorial (Approx. run time: 13 minutes)



Audience-FAX: A U.S. Daily Newspaper Audience Reporting Initiative (Oct. 2007)

In this discussion, ABC's Bridget Fleagle, introduces you to Audience-FAX, an initiative to integrate newspaper readership and online audience estimates into ABC circulation reports.

Introduction/Handouts

Tutorial (Approx. run time: 13 minutes)