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May 17-18, 2008 (Saturday and Sunday) Schedule Alden Loury - The Chicago Reporter Mc Nelly Torres - South Florida Sun-Sentinel Sharon Chan - The Seattle Times Manny Garcia, The Miami Herald Andy Hall - Wisconsin State Journal Mark Horvit - IRE/NICAR Brant Houston - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Registration
Columbia College Chicago Journalism Department Second Floor 33 E. Congress Parkway Chicago, IL 60605 Workshop Fees $25 professionals and $10 students. Includes a one-year membership in IRE. Optional Computer-Assisted Reporting Training from 9 a.m. - noon on Sunday, May 18. You must be registered for the Ethnic Media training to attend the CAR training. Introductory: Attend this hands-on workshop and learn how to use Excel spreadsheets for deadline and beat reporting on budgets, salaries, and Census data. Also learn how to dig deeper using the Internet and find valuable datasets for your stories (Class size is limited; register early to reserve a seat on a first-come, first-serve basis). If you have general workshop questions, please contact Stephanie Sinn, stephanie@ire.org or 573-882-8969. If you have registration questions, please contact John Green, membership coordinator, jgreen@ire.org or 573-882-2772.
About the Workshop
This workshop for journalists working for ethnic news organizations will cover how to do investigative and enterprise journalism quickly and effectively. Some of the best practitioners in the profession will show you how to find documents, databases and sources for topics such as education, immigration, homeland security, criminal justice, labor, and local government. The workshop will enable journalists to learn how to write penetrating stories from their investigative and public service efforts. IRE will post links to these stories on the workshop Web site to inspire journalists in other newsrooms to do these kinds of public service stories. This program is funded by the McCormick Tribune Foundation in collaboration with New America Media and Community Media Workshop. This workshop will be presented by Investigative Reporters and Editors. Learn about other IRE Watchdog Journalism opportunities. |
