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On-site registrations will be accepted for the upcoming Computer-Assisted Reporting conference beginning Thursday, March 11 at the Sheraton Downtown Phoenix.
For details on where to go for registration, parking and other key conference information, visit http://data.nicar.org/node/3912.
See this year’s schedule at http://data.nicar.org/conference/schedule/7. You don’t want to miss this conference!

Register today to take advantage of the early-bird rate of $190. After Monday, March 1, this rate will increase to $220 on-site. Registration information can be found at http://data.nicar.org/CAR2010/reg.

With tight newsroom budgets, open-source software comes at the right price: free. This year’s Computer-Assisted Reporting conference March 11-14 in Phoenix offers several new hands-on classes:

· CrimeStat. Analyze crime incident locations with a free spatial statistics program.

· Flex free visualization software. Build Web applications with open-source software that works like Flash.

Three major investigative reports that used social science research methods as key parts of their probes were named today as winners of the 2009 Philip Meyer Journalism Award.
USA Today took first place with “The Smokestack Effect: Toxic Air and America’s Schools.” Reporters Blake Morrison and Brad Heath spearheaded a project that examined the levels of [...]