Friday
9 a.m.	Introductions and Overview of Seminar - Brant Houston, IRE and NICAR
9:30 a.m.	A review of computer-assisted stories: What's been done, what's being done, what's do-able - Brant Houston, IRE and NICAR
10:30 a.m.	A look at reliable electronic resources you can (may) trust: Sure-fire Internet research (What you should expect your staff to find, bookmarks to live by) - Brant Houston and Jeff Porter, IRE and NICAR
11:15 a.m.	Break
11:30 a.m.	Building a database library for daily and beat stories: The databases you need on deadline and for context in a newsroom - Brant Houston and Jeff Porter, IRE and NICAR
12:30 p.m.	Lunch
2 p.m.	Sure-fire Internet research (hands-on): What you should expect your staff to download and how to do it - David Herzog, NICAR and Missouri School of Journalism, and Jaimi Dowdell, IRE and NICAR
3:15 p.m.	Break
3:30 p.m.	Overview of the spreadsheet (hands-on): Why every reporter should use it and getting stories from numbers - David Herzog, NICAR and Missouri School of Journalism
5 p.m.	Q & A
5:30 p.m.	End of day
Saturday
9 a.m.	Editing the story Part One: Conceiving the story, blending CAR into stories, key questions to ask reporters, finding flaws in the data - Chris Ison, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and Brant Houston, IRE and NICAR
11:15 a.m.	Break
11:30 a.m.	Editing the story Part Two: Using graphics instead of agate charts and maps, humanizing the story - Chris Ison, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and Brant Houston, IRE and NICAR
12:30 p.m.	Lunch
2 p.m.	The power of the database manager (hands-on): How it can give you tips, stories, context and depth. Seeing the potential and getting oriented - Jeff Porter, IRE and NICAR, David Herzog, NICAR and Missouri School of Journalism
3:15 p.m.	Break
3:30 p.m.	Looking at information with a database manager: Searching, summarizing, and comparing databases for stories - Jeff Porter, IRE and NICAR, David Herzog, NICAR and Missouri School of Journalism
5 p.m.	End of day
6 p.m.	Group dinner (location to be announced)
Sunday
9 a.m.	Negotiating for electronic data: Using Freedom of Information Act and open records and deciding when to go legal - Brant Houston, IRE and NICAR
10:15 a.m.	Break
10:30 a.m.	How to handle the cost question for data: Strategies for keeping costs low - Brant Houston and Jeff Porter, IRE and NICAR
11 a.m.	How to keep reporters from getting lost in the data: Focus and time management - David Herzog, NICAR and Missouri School of Journalism
12:30 p.m.	Lunch
2 p.m.	Bring it all together/structuring the newsroom: Putting together a strategy for different teams and desks, making the most of what you have - Brant Houston and Jeff Porter, IRE and NICAR, and David Herzog, NICAR and Missouri School of Journalism
3:30 p.m.	End of seminar