02/24/10 Tags: video
By Doug Haddix
IRE Training Director
Journalists can dig deeper and produce high-impact stories by developing a “document state of mind.” Get practical advice in this short video featuring Brant Houston, the Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting at the University of Illinois. Houston is the former executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors. Houston spoke at an IRE Ethnic Media Watchdog Workshop at Tulane University, New Orleans, in January 2010.
02/19/10 Tags: assault, campus, data, online, webinar
Join Kristen Lombardi and David Donald of The Center for Public Integrity in a one-hour webinar that will help you understand how to investigate the ways colleges and universities handle allegations of sexual assault. This session is free but space is limited. To register please send an email to campus@ire.org.
After 12 months of reporting, the Center has reached some troubling conclusions about how some colleges and universities collect and report sexual assault statistics, and how sexual assault cases are adjudicated in the campus judicial system.
You’ll learn how to make sense of federal mandatory crime data, known as Clery data, how to identify and investigate cases, and how to better prepare yourself for potential reporting barriers. They’ll also discuss broadly the federal laws at work in these proceedings, what they require of schools, and ways you can use public records requests to your advantage.
The webinar will be held Tuesday, February 23 at 5 p.m. CST.
02/4/10
By Mark Horvit
IRE Executive Director
IRE brought the Watchdog Workshop series to the University of Alabama at Birmingham in late January. A great mix of journalists from throughout the region gathered to discuss … well, rather than tell you about it, we’ll let some of the students who traveled to Birmingham for the workshops fill you in. Here are links to five blog posts about the day, written by students from the journalism school at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Tip sheets created for some of these sessions can be downloaded by IRE members at the Resource Center.
“Investigative Reporting 3.0, or Web stalking”
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