CAR Jazz Bash tickets on sale:
Let your investigative spirit slip out for some night life at Houston’s famed Red Cat Jazz Café on Friday, Feb. 29. It’s an evening of great jazz and networking with some of the best reporters in the nation. In a narrow brick building dating back to Houston's earliest days, the Red Cat Jazz Café combines sophistication and good times with a French Quarter-like atmosphere and some of the best Cajun and Creole cuisine in town.
A $15 ticket gets you in -- and buys your first two drinks. And, if that's not enough, you’ll be helping IRE and NICAR raise money. Advance tickets for this event are now on sale for $15. Buy yours early so you don't miss this great event. Advance tickets will be available until Friday, February 15. Any remaining tickets will be sold at the conference for $20. Join us Friday, Feb. 29, at 8 p.m.; live music starts at 9.
Calling all Nicarians! Please send your suggestions for panels and panelists right away to confideas@ire.org. Please include as much detail as possible and contact information, if you have it, for recommended speakers.
UCG gift supports IRE Web site: Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) announced today that UCG, a Rockville, Md., publisher of business newsletters, electronic magazines and directories, pledged $10,000 over a two-year period to support the upgrading and further development of IRE's Web site.
New political database: St. Petersburg Times and CQ.com have launched a new online database called PolitiFact -- www.politifact.com. As Matt Waite of the Times explained on the NICAR-L Listserv: It's what happens when you take the standard stock "truth squad" newspaper story and wash it through a web development framework. PolitiFact aims to take things the presidential candidates are saying during this campaign and fact check them -- something every newspaper does or has done. What we've done here is take that story, blow it apart into it's component parts and turned those parts into database fields."
The site lets users sift through the facts in the databases, and it will offer the benefits of a data archive and regularly updated information about ongoing political races.
GuideStar Offer: IRE members will now be able to access information on more than 1.5 million nonprofit organizations through GuideStar at a deeply discounted rate. Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) has announced that it will partner with GuideStar, the leading source of nonprofit information, to deliver special benefits to IRE members which include access to scores of facts and figures such as IRS Form 990s, executive compensation and much more at the fingertips of the journalism community. Click here for more information.
2007 CAR Conference Tipsheets on CD
Order the complete collection by contacting the Resource Center at 573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org. The cost is $10 per CD plus shipping ($3 U.S., $10 international). IRE members can download PDF copies of Tipsheets free at www.ire.org/resourcecenter/tipsheets.php. (Search for "CAR 2007")
View a slideshow with audio clips from conference speakers.
Downloads: When you're looking for tools other CAR practitioners have created, be sure to visit our downloads page. Current programs include Brad Heaths' intranet tool and Tom Torok's SQL Server tools.
Extra! Extra! Get inspired by IRE's online guide to investigative and computer-assisted reporting stories. Extra! Extra! is updated regularly with the latest work from newspapers, broadcast outlets, magazines and online newsrooms.
Find useful resources on the NICAR Net Tour
IRE's beat book series: Understanding Crime Statistics, Covering Aviation Safety, Home Mortgage Lending: Detecting Disparities, Unstacking the Deck: A Reporter's Guide To Campaign Finance, Covering Pollution and Mapping for Stories. |
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Data subscriptions: The IRE and NICAR Database Library has added more data subscription services to help journalists meet deadlines and use the most recent data. This service makes regular updates of databases available through an online delivery service. Subscription services are available for the Federal Aviation Administration's aircraft registration database, the Airmen Directory, and the database of accidents and incidents. More databases will be added over the next few months. Contact dherzog@nicar.org for more information.
Recent data updates: National Bridge Inventory, Nuclear Material Events Database, Campus Crime data, SBA 7a business loans.
Data and the news: See how IRE and NICAR can help you cover the latest news using data, tipsheets and archived stories.
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Training opportunities in CAR
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Building
the case for CAR: Pat Stith of The (Raleigh,
N.C.) News & Observer, a longtime member of IRE and a former
member of its board of directors, makes a compelling argument for
building and improving computer-assisted reporting programs at newspapers.
Math for journalists: Test your skills with this interactive test developed by Steve Doig, Arizona State
University, and inspired by Phil Meyer, UNC-Chapel Hill. The fourth volume in the IRE Beat Book Series is "Numbers in
the Newsroom: Using Math and Statistics in News." The guide, written by Washington Post database editor and former IRE training director Sarah Cohen,
focuses on putting numbers into perspective for stories. |
