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CAR Conference Panels
Return to 2006 CAR Conference

The CAR Conference at Newark, March 9 to March 12 (Thursday through Sunday), will feature panels for both beginning and advanced CAR practitioners. The panels will cover using data for most beats and address the use of CAR for daily, weekly and long-term stories. The conference also will have sessions on freedom of information issues and writing and editing CAR stories for print, broadcast and online. Thursday will have many of the advanced sessions and look at some of the cutting edge techniques and approaches. This is a preliminary list, subject to change. Please keep checking back as we add more panels.

The expected panels will include using database analysis in stories and investigations on:

Money and politics
Nonprofits
The environment
Local government contracts
Federal contracts
Natural and man-made disasters
Transportation
Education
Business
Health care issues
The military and the war
Bridges, dams and roads
Crime statistics
Injustice in courts and prisons
Workplace safety
Changing demographics in the local community
Homeland security
Caregiving for the elderly and children
Sports issues

Other expected sessions:
Building a "thinking" intranet in your newsroom
Bulletproofing the CAR story
Using social network analysis
Changing the culture of newsrooms for greater use of CAR
The latest in mapping (GIS) techniques
Conducting "the visual investigation" with software and techniques
Basic statistical techniques
The latest in international CAR
FOIA and data battles
Writing the CAR story
Editing the CAR story
Teaching CAR in higher education
The latest in data at the Census site
The basics of searching the Internet
Advanced searches of the Internet, including the invisible Web
CAR for broadcasters
Doing quick hits with CAR
Preying on the poor