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2006 CAR Conference • March 9-12

Conference News: More than 300 journalists attended this year's CAR Conference, featuring the presentation of the first Philip Meyer Awards, honoring stellar work done in the past year using social research methods in journalism. Journalists from around the world took advantage of a full slate of hands-on CAR classes, as well as panels on using CAR on nearly every beat, presented by top journalists. CAR beginners used our popular mini-boot camps to get a quick start on their CAR skills..

TIPSHEETS: We have started posting tipsheets from this conference and more will be available in the next few weeks. Here's a sample: David Herzog on "Teaching CAR from college to the newsroom," Matt Waite on "Mapping for the Web," and John Maines on "CAR for covering natural disasters."

Host: The Star-Ledger
Primary Sponsor: Gannett Foundation
Sponsors: Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune Foundation, The New York Times
and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, PC


HOTEL INFORMATION
Conference Hotel
Hilton Newark Gateway Hotel
Gateway Center
Raymond Boulevard
Newark, NJ 07102
800-445-8667 or
973-622-5000

Overflow Hotel
DoubleTree Hotel
Newark Airport

1000 Spring Street
Elizabeth, NJ 07201
800-222-8733 or
908-436-4600

Philip Meyer Awards

The Philip Meyer Awards were presented to Steve Suo of The Oregonian, Chris Adams and Alison Young of the Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau and Matthew Waite and Craig Pittman of the St. Petersburg Times.

Program Information

Other Information

Drawing Winner
Tony Palazzo of Bloomberg News won the complimentary conference registration to the 2006 CAR Conference by filling out an online evaluation of the 2005 CAR Conference.