Archive for June, 2009

ASU’s Cronkite School will host 2010 CAR Conference

Join IRE and NICAR in Phoenix for the 2010 Computer-Assisted Reporting Conference.
The annual event, which offers hands-on training, panels on the latest trends and insight into cutting-edge developments, will be hosted by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University from March 11-14.
The 2010 CAR Conference will give you the [...]

Reporting on school crime with databases

In this free-read article from Uplink, Gavin Off of the Tulsa World shows how he used local school crime report data to uncover a rise in incidents at local elementary schools. The article provides useful tips for journalists who’d like to cover school crime in their own areas.

Koziol, IRE’s first president, dies at 74

Ron Koziol, a co-founder of Investigative Reporters and Editors and a member of the Arizona Project team, died Saturday, June 13, of congestive heart failure. He was 74.
Koziol was a longtime police reporter at the Chicago Tribune. In 1975 he helped found IRE, and he was a member of the group of reporters who went [...]

And more from Baltimore

If you missed the 2009 IRE Conference — or if you were there but just miss the conference — here are some online recaps and blog posts on the IRE site and elsewhere.

Showcase: Watergate, WMD and the future of news

By Roy Harris
With his first words, Bob Woodward signaled the blunt, no-nonsense tone of “Accountability Reporting and Digging Deep,” the 2009 IRE Conference showcase panel with Woodward and Leonard Downie Jr.
Downie– the longtime executive editor at The Washington Post, now headed for Arizona State University–had begun the discussion by describing the 37-year reporter-editor relationship started [...]

Showcase: Finding positives, despite dark moments

By Steve Weinberg
With all the gloom about the future of newspapers and other mainstream media, the speakers at the showcase panel “Doing great work in tough times” at the 2009 IRE Conference provided a mostly upbeat alternate conventional wisdom.
Jill Abramson, New York Times managing editor, moderated the panel. She is bullish on the future [...]