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| IRE and NICAR work with experts in their fields to produce beat-specific training sessions for print and broadcast. We're happy to design a seminar for your beat, specialty or region. Typical sessions include: One-day Investigative Reporting Seminar: IRE suggests this one-day investigative reporting workshop for small- to medium-sized news organizations and bureau reporters. One-day Internet training: Introduces your news organization to a sample of the thousands of stories that have been enhanced or even made possible by computer-assisted methods and demonstrate the three basic tools of computer-assisted reporting - the Internet, spreadsheets and databases. Census Workshop: These intensive two-day sessions are fast-track lessons on what you need to know to produce stories with census data. Advanced CAR Statistics Workshop  Instructors include Steve Doig, Knight Chair in Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University, Jennifer LaFleur, computer-assisted reporting editor for The Dallas Morning News, and Holly Hacker, education reporter at The Dallas Morning News. This session is aimed at strengthening the skills of reporters who want to move beyond basic computer-assisted reporting and use statistical analysis in their work. The next session is scheduled for Feb. 17-19, 2006, at Arizona State University. Get more information and register now.
Advanced Boot Camp on Mapping  These three-day seminars offer intensive hands-on training using mapping software for stories. All lessons are based on government data. Participants are asked to have a basic knowledge in using relational database programs such as Access or FoxPro. Participants are also encouraged to bring local data to work on during open lab time. A mapping seminar is scheduled for Jan. 6-8, 2006. Software discount: IRE members can qualify for discounts on geographic information system software by attending a GIS training event conducted by IRE and NICAR or ESRI. Editor Boot Camps  These computer-assisted reporting boot camps for editors are intensive three-day workshops tailored to the needs of newsroom managers. This includes top editors or news directors, managing editors, AMEs, assignment editors and other editors directing reporters. Educator Boot Camps  Learn all about CAR and the techniques to teach it. Instructors will include Brant Houston, executive director of IRE and author of Computer-Assisted Reporting, A Practical Guide and Jeff Porter, director of the IRE and NICAR database library. Some past seminars that were created for interested groups: Intermediate Workshop on Data Cleaning: Richard Mullins led reporters through the mine fields of dirty data, front ends and similar programming issues to help them use the data they had fought to acquire. He also touched on more advanced analytic techniques. Intermediate Workshop on Data Analysis: Our trainer led reporters through some more advanced techniques in making sense of data. Cleaning data, and strategies for using it, were featured in this two-day workshop. Advanced Workshop on Intranets: George Landau, president of NewsEngin and top CAR practitioner teamed up with Tom Torok, Intranet developer for The Philadelphia Inquirer, to teach about starting an Intranet. The curriculum began with setting up an SQL server and worked through delivering Active Server Pages to the newsroom. NetMedia '98: A series of seminars geared toward international journalists. Material developed for session. Covering Welfare Reform: Finding Stories in a Sea of Data: A session in conjunction with the Foundation for American Communications. This session featured topic experts and hands-on computer-assisted reporting training for journalists trying to tackle one of the biggest social changes of the decade. Data in Dairyland, Part II: The Associated Press, with support from more than 15 Wisconsin newspapers, purchased two Wisconsin data sets from NICAR. The purchasing consortium then created a workshop to train those news organizations using the data they would use in the newsroom. Risky Behavior: A workshop on using data from the Centers for Disease Control in your community. Produced in conjunction with CDC and public health experts. Past session sample. Follow the Money: A seminar in covering campaign finance issues. This session, held in conjunction with IRE's Campaign Finance Information Center, helps journalists use the Internet, spreadsheets and databases in covering elections. Rating Schools: A two-day workshop on the minefield that awaits reporters hoping to work with school reports and other education quality data. Past session sample. |
