IRE Training Events : March 2012
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Stillwater Watchdog Workshop
Host: Oklahoma State University
IRE is bringing its highly rated Better Watchdog Workshop to Stillwater.
We’ll offer several of our core sessions that will improve your ability to find information on the Web quickly, point you to key documents that will help you produce quick-hit enterprise stories and give you tips on the best approaches when conducting interviews or developing sources.
In addition, this workshop will give you tips on how to bulletproof stories, how to deal with freedom of information laws and public records, and useful Web sites and strategies for using Internet tools such as wikis, blogs, robots ...
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Spokane Watchdog Workshop
Host: Gonzaga University
IRE is bringing its highly rated Better Watchdog Workshop to Spokane.
We’ll offer several of our core sessions that will improve your ability to find information on the Web quickly, point you to key documents that will help you produce quick-hit enterprise stories and give you tips on the best approaches when conducting interviews or developing sources.
In addition, this workshop will give you tips on how to bulletproof stories, how to deal with freedom of information laws and public records, and useful Web sites and strategies for using Internet tools such as wikis, blogs, robots and ...
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Connecticut Watchdog Workshop
Hosted by: Central Connecticut State University
Co-sponsored by: Connecticut Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, Central Connecticut State University Media Board, CCSU Journalism Program and CCSU Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists
IRE is bringing its highly rated Better Watchdog Workshop to Connecticut.
We’ll offer several of our core sessions that will improve your ability to find information on the Web quickly, point you to key documents that will help you produce quick-hit enterprise stories and give you tips on the best approaches when conducting interviews or developing sources.
In addition, this workshop will give you tips ...
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Be a Better Business Watchdog – CAR for Business Journalists
Even if you’ve never touched a spreadsheet, you will walk away from this daylong workshop able to use Excel, including pivot tables. You’ll also learn about publically available databases that you can download and analyze to produce great local business stories. Co-presented with the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, this training is free, but space is limited, and you must sign up at the center’s website: BusinessJournalism.org.
Time
8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. Thursday, March 15, 2012
The workshop is hosted by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and precedes SABEW's Conference March ...
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CAR Boot Camp - March
Learn how to acquire electronic information, use spreadsheets and databases to analyze the information and translate that information into high-impact stories. In addition, NICAR provides follow-up help when participants return to their news organizations.