Thursday, June 1 - Optional Day, Computer-Assisted Reporting(Note: These are panel sessions, not hands-on classes 9 a.m. The Best of Computer-assisted Reporting: An overview of the past year's work Shawn McIntosh, The Clarion-Ledger Housing scams: Land flips and slumlords Steve Brandt, Star Tribune; Jody Calendar, The Record of Hackensack; Rick Linsk, The St. Paul Pioneer Press Training the Newsroom Tom McGinty, IRE; Jennifer LaFleur, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Brant Houston, IRE; Frank Bass, AP Responding to Disasters: Databases to have on hand, Web sites to know Bob Williams, The News & Observer; Richard O'Reilly, Los Angeles Times Confirming the results: Techniques for checking your methodology and your findings Jo Craven McGinty, NICAR and Missouri School of Journalism 10:30 a.m. Census 101: Getting ready for the data Dwight L. Johnson, Census Bureau; Steve Doig, Arizona State University; Paul Overberg, USA Today Who's Behind the Web Site? Ferreting out what's authentic, what's not Alice Crites, The Washington Post; Nora Paul, The Poynter Institute; Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News Building a newsroom pipeline: Using intranets to supply data to everyone George Landau, NewsEngin, Inc.; Richard Mullins, NICAR Advisor; Tom Torok, The New York Times Hidden Treasures: Little known databases with great information Drew Sullivan, The Tennessean Uncovering Disparity: Databases that reveal racial profiling and redlining Joe Neff, The News & Observer; Tom Curran, The Star-Ledger; Elizabeth Marchak, The Plain Dealer Noon Lunch on your own 1:30 p.m. Census 202: The best stories to do first Steve Doig, Arizona State University; Paul Overberg, USA Today; Neill Borowski, The Philadelphia Inquirer Putting Data Online Alletta Emeno, The Philadelphia Inquirer; Jim Krane, APBnews.com Making Sense of Federal Campaign Finance Data Tony Raymond, FECInfo; Shelia Krumholz, Center for Responsive Politics; Bob Biersack, The Federal Elections Commission; Cindy Eberting, IRE & NICAR Community Change: Unraveling sprawl and migration John Voskuhl, Lexington Herald-Leader; Cheryl Phillips, USA Today; Jan Schaffer, The Pew Center for Civic Journalism; Diane Mastrull, The Philadelphia Inquirer The Nuts and Bolts of Aviation Saftey Data Alan Levin, USA Today; Jason Grotto, IRE & NICAR 3 p.m. Mapping Data 1: The latest and greatest uses Jennifer LaFleur, St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Andy Lehren, Dateline NBC Making Sense of Environmental Databases David Armstrong, The Boston Globe; Mary Jo Sylwester, IRE & NICAR; Dawn Fallik, IRE & NICAR; Charles Lussier, The (Houma, La.) Courier Campaign Finance: Working with state and local data Cindy Eberting, IRE & NICAR; Cliff Levy, The New York Times; Jeff South, Virginia Commonwealth University; Bob Warner, Philadelphia Daily News CAR on the Local Beat Jack Dolan, The Hartford Courant; Russ Buettner, The New York Daily News; Neil Reisner, The Miami Herald 4:30 p.m. Mapping Data 2: Advanced newsroom uses Dan Keating, The Washington Post and Andy Lehren, Dateline NBC Using CAR to Track the Illegal Drug Trade and Deaths Rose Ciotta, The Philadelphia Inquirer; Wayne Woolley, The Star-Ledger; Geoff Dougherty, The Miami Herald Getting it Accurate and Getting it Right: The ethical uses of data Rich Galant, Newsday; Ford Fessenden, The New York Times; Sarah Cohen, The Washington Post The Quick Turnaround: Databases and Web sites to always have nearby David Milliron, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Paul Adrian, The News of Texas; Heather Newman, Detroit Free Press 5:30 p.m. Reception for Criminal Justice Journalists Center on Crime, Communities & Culture, 400 West 59th Street 7 p.m. An Evening with Seymour Hersh: Telling the Truth in a Season of Spin Talk will mark kickoff for joint summer journalism program Missouri School of Journalism and New School University Room 510, New School, 66 West 12th Street Admission: $5, or free with IRE conference name tag 7:30 p.m. Blues Bash A traditional unofficial IRE party, hosted by the IRE Broadcast Committee Tribeca Blues, 16 Warren Street Advance tickets: $15 near registration tables, $20 at door Friday 9 a.m. Probing the Pharmaceutical Industry Gina Kolata, The New York Times; Glenn Bunting, Los Angeles Times; Dennis Cauchon, USA Today; David Willman, Los Angeles Times The best Investigative Projects of 1999 Shawn McIntosh, The Clarion-Ledger Finding Abuses in the Inner City: Housing to workfare Jim Haner, The Baltimore Sun; Janet Roberts, St. Paul Pioneer Press Broadcast - Tricks of the Trade: Going undercover and doing surveillance the right way Bob Read, Inside Edition; Mitch Wagenberg, StreetVision; Pam Zekman, WBBM Fast Track - Backgrounding Individuals Don Ray, Exclusive News Groups Investigating Immigration Steve Chambers, The Star-ledger; Lisa Getter, Los Angeles Times; Judy Miller, The Miami Herald Fast Track - Teaching Investigative Reporting Tom Goldstein, Columbia University; Bob Greene, Hofstra University 10 a.m. Fast Track - Turning Your Investigation Into a Book James Neff, author; Esther Newberg, International Creative Management Fast Track - Environmental Reporting David Armstrong, The Boston Globe; Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News 10:30 a.m. Doing the Story No One Wants to Hear: Uncovering U.S. atrocities abroad and getting the stories published Robert Port, APBnews.com; Sydney Schanberg, APBnews.com; Martha Mendoza, AP; Seymour Hersh, author Investigating Medical Research and the Stories We're Missing Kurt Eichenwald, The New York Times; Delores Kong, The Boston Globe; Deborah Nelson, The Washington Post Online Special: Making the transition from traditional journalism to online investigative journalism Merrill Brown, MSNBC; Jonathan Krim, TheStreet.com; Karl Idsvoog, APBNews.com; Mark Sauter, APBNews.com Broadcast Track - Hot New Stories Chuck Goudie, WLS-TV; Chris Heinbaugh, KOMO-TV; Julie Kramer, WCCO The Ills of Juvenile Crime and Punishment Frank Green, Richmond Times Dispatch; Mary Hargrove, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette; Todd Richissin, The Baltimore Sun; Mark Soler, Youth Law Center 11 a.m. Fast Track - The Military Beat Russell Carollo, Dayton Daily News; Randy Herschaft, AP Fast Track - Turning Your Investigation Into a Book James Neff, author; Esther Newberg, International Creative Management Noon Lunch on your own Financial journalists are invited to an informal lunch/workshop at Bloomberg headquarters, 499 Park Ave. Call David Evans at 310-910-8811 or e-mail him at davidevans@bloomberg.net to reserve a spot. 1:30 p.m. Beyond the Sopranos: The new organized crime beat Ray Kelly, U.S. Customs; Joe Pistone, former FBI agent; Anthony DeStefano, Newsday; John Miller, ABC News; Lewis Schiliro, former head of FBI-N.Y. Great Tips from Great Writers: Taking your stories the next step and turning them into magazine pieces and books Susan Orlean, The New Yorker; Mike Winerip, The New York Times; Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker; Lisa Getter, Los Angeles Times; Policing the Police Kathy Barrett Carter, The Star Ledger; Joe Calderone, New York Daily News; Len Levitt, Newsday; John Marzulli, New York Daily News; Craig McCoy, The Philadelphia Inquirer Gotcha Journalism: How to fight the lowering of standards Neal Shapiro, Dateline NBC; Dean Baquet, The New York Times; Robert Rosenthal, Philadelphia Inquirer; Robert Snyder, Media Studies Center; Mike McGraw, The Kansas City Star; Christopher Pyle, Mount Holyoke College; Pam Zekman, WBBM Broadcast Special Edition - An hour with 60 minutes Rich Greenberg, 60 Minutes CBS; Rich Bonin, 60 Minutes CBS; Walt Bogdanich, 60 Minutes CBS 2 p.m. Fast Track - Doing the Education Investigation Bob Frahm, The Hartford Courant; Tim Simmons, The News & Observer Fast Track - Census Bits and Bytes Dwight L. Johnson, Census Bureau; Steve Doig, Arizona State University 2:30 p.m. Broadcast Special Edition - An Hour with ABC's 20/20 Victor Neufeld, ABC News; Ira Rosen, ABC News; Brian Ross, ABC News 3 p.m. Latest Tips on FOIA Mike Ravnitsky, APBnews.com Caregivers Gone Wrong: Exposing the abuses David Gulliver, Dayton Daily News; Kate Boo, The Washington Post; Brian Donovan, Newsday; Robert Gebeloff, The Record of Hackensack; Mark Rochester, Newsday Finding Investigative Reporting's Place in History: Looking at a century of muckraking Andie Tucher, Columbia University; Robert Miraldi, Suny-New Paltz; Bruce Shapiro, Yale University and The Nation; Steve Weinberg, University of Missouri The Online Special: The challenge of doing investigative work on the Web David Weir, Salon.com; Elliot Zaret, MSNBC.com; Geraldine Sealey, ABCnews.com; Dan Colarusso, TheSteet.com; Nora Paul, Poynter Institute Covering Terrorists and Fringe Groups Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times; James Risen, The New York Times; Olive Talley, Dateline NBC; Josh Meyer, Los Angeles Times Fast Track - Transportation safety Elizabeth Marchak, The Plain Dealer; Don Phillips, The Washington Post Fast Track - IRS Primer David Burnham, TRAC/Syracuse University; David Cay Johnston, The New York Times 3:30 p.m. Broadcast Special Edition - An hour with Dateline Neal Shapiro , NBC - Dateline; Alan Mayraness, NBC-Dateline; Pat Weiland, NBC-Dateline 4 p.m. Fast Track - Backgrounding Businesses David Evans, Bloomberg News Service; Susan Harrigan, Newsday Fast Track - Covering Courts Loren Steffy, Bloomberg; John Sullivan, The News and Observer 4:30 p.m. When Worlds Collide: Companies, government, politics and the law James Grimaldi, The Washington Post; David Cay Johnston, The New York Times; Trudy Lieberman, Consumer Reports Investigations in Entertainment and the Arts Marty Gottlieb, The New York Times; David Zeman, Detroit Free Press; Hector Feliciano, author; John Horn, Premiere Magazine Winning Strategies in Freelance Ana Arana, author; Russ Baker, Freelance; Karen Rothmeyer, The Nation; Steve Weinberg, University of Missouri The Cross-Cultural Investigation Ying Chan, Hong Kong University; Paul Cuadros, Alicia Patterson fellow; Victor Merina, Poynter Institute Editor's Roundtable: Why we do investigations and how to get your bosses to let you do them too Michael Fancher, The Seattle Times; Vivian Waixel, The Record; John Lansing, WEWS-TV; David Boardman, The Seattle Times; Mike Levine, The (Middletown, N.Y.) Times Herald-Record 5 p.m. Fast Track - Covering Cities/Counties Tom Robbins, Village Voice; Celeste Hadrick, Newsday Fast Track - Military Beat Tony Capaccio, Bloomberg 6:30 p.m. IRE Showcase Panel - The new challenges for investigative reporting Featuring: Mike Wallace, CBS; Bill Keller, The New York Times; Diane Sawyer, ABC; Stone Phillips, NBC; Ted Koppel, ABC; Adam Clayton Powell III, Freedom Forum 8 p.m. IRE fundraising reception 25th Anniversary Commemoration Saturday 9 a.m. Online Special - Presenting the investigative story on The Web: Challenges in writing, data and visualizing Jason Fields, AP; David Zucchino, The Philadelphia Inquirer; Robert Tiernan, Newsday.com The Death Sentence Stayed: Probing wrongful convictions Jerry Mitchell, The Clarion-Ledger; Robert Blau, Chicago Tribune;Gary Craig, The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle; Ken Armstrong, Chicago Tribune The Challenge of Investigations at Small News Organizations Tracy Sadeghian, WRDW-TV, Augusta, Ga.; Kathy L'Ecluse, Daily Republic; Steve Blank, Times-Ledger; Willy Stern, Nashville Scene; George Kennedy, Columbia Missourian; Len Bruzzese, IRE Broadcast Track - Storytelling Strategies and Techniques Nancy Amons, WSMV; Tony Kovaleski, KPRC-TV; Mark Lagerkvist, News 12 Long Island; Duane Pohlman, KING5-TV Blazing the People Trail: How to develop sources and get them to talk Pat Stith, The News & Observer; Eric Nalder, The Seattle Times Fast Track - Useful International Online Databases: Health, crime, immigration Stephen Quinn, Deakin University; Noemi Ramirez, IRE & NICAR; Neil Reisner, The Miami Herald Fast Track - Finding investigative riches on the insurance and banking beats Randy Diamond, The (Bergen) Record; Felix Kessler, Bloomberg 10 a.m. Fast Track - Census Bits and Bytes Paul Wyatt, Census Bureau; Steve Doig, Arizona State University Fast Track - Covering Cities/Counties Celeste Hadrick, Newsday; Tom Robbins, Village Voice 10:30 a.m. International Track -- Investigating the Attackers: How journalists under fire fight back against threats, slurs and intimidation Pedro Armendares; Ricardo Trotti, IAPA's Project Impunity; Joel Simon, Committee to Protect Journalists At What Price the Presidency? How to track the big sell-off Larry Makinson, Center for Responsive Politics; Donald Barlett, Time Magazine; Charles Lewis, Center for Public Integrity; James Steele, Time Magazine Organizing and Editing the Project Marc Duvoisin, Philadelphia Inquirer; Arthur Browne, New York Daily News; Jody Calendar, The Record of Hackensack; Robert Blau, The Chicago Tribune; David Boardman, The Seattle Times Broadcast - Power of documentaries Tom Bettag, Nightline; David Fanning, Frontline; Valerie Hyman Maintaining Free Speech in a Panic About Privacy: Public records and the battle for access in the information age Eve Burton, Daily News; Roger Meyers, Esq., Steinhart & Falconer LLP; Florence Rivas, Rivas & Rivas; David Smallman, DocketWatch.com LLC; Hoag Levins, APBnews.com 11 a.m. Fast Track - Quick Hits on Community Beat: Contracts to nepotism Michael Diamond, Atlantic City Press; Sandra Peddie, Newsday Fast Track - Backgrounding Businesses Alex Berenson, The New York Times; Susan Harrigan, Newsday Noon Luncheon - Keynote Speaker: Don Hewitt, 60 Minutes Awards ceremony 2:30 p.m. International Track - International Roundtable Yevgenia Albets; Steve Engelberg, The New York Times; David Kaplan, U.S. News and World Report; Gustavo Gorritti; Sunday Dare, The News and Tempo Newsmagazines; Andreas Harsono; Gunther Latch, Der Spiegel Investments and Finance: Working a money beat David Dietz, TheStreet.com; Marcy Gordon, AP; Adam Levy, Bloomberg; Herb Greenberg, TheStreet.com; Gary Weiss, Business Week Great Tips From Great Writers, Part II: Crafting the story Anne Hull, St. Petersburg Times ; David Finkel, Washington Post; Scott Kraft, Los Angeles Times; Broadcast - IRE Award Winners Byron Harris, WFAA - Dallas; Valeri Williams, WFAA - Dallas; Gerry Lanosga; G. Stu Watson, Jr., NBC - WCNC-TV Newly discovered perils in the nuclear industry Mike McGraw, The Kansas City Star; Sam Roe, Toledo Blade; Joby Warrick, The Washington Post; Karl Grossman, author Fast Track - Covering courts Tom Jackman, The Washington Post; Shirley Perlman, Newsday Fast Track - Campus Investigations J.M. Brown, IUPUI; Bruce Shapiro, Yale; Matthew Davis, IUPUI 3:00 p.m. Latest Tips on FOIA Mike Ravnitsky, APBnews.com 3:30 p.m. Fast Track - Non-profits Frances Hill, University of Florida Fast Track - Backgrounding Individuals Alan Schlein, Deadline Online 4 p.m. Digging into Multinational Corporations, Ferreting out International Trade Scams Maud Beelman, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists; Jack Blum, Lobel, Novins and Lamont; Jock Ferguson, First Avenue Films; Jim Mulvaney, KPMG Forensic and Litigation Service Newsgathering Under Attack: Premptive strikes and other matters Bill Kovach, Nieman Foundation; James Neff, author; Sam Roe, The Toledo Blade; Sandy Baron, Libel Defense Resource Center; Mary Ellen Roy, attorney Broadcast Track - Test it Yourself: Investigations on the consumer beat Roberta Baskin, ABC News 20/20; Allison Gilbert, WWOR-TV, New York; Hillary Martin, Consumer Reports Busted Play: Investigating college sports Tom Farrey, ESPN.com; George Dohrmann, St. Paul Pioneer Press; Liz Chandler, The Charlotte Observer; David Boardman, The Seattle Times Diagnosing the sick health system: From bad doctors to HMO abuses Fred Schulte, The Sun-Sentinel; Russ Buettner, New York Daily News; Tom Maier, Newsday 4:30 p.m. Fast Track - Environmental Reporting David Armstrong, The Boston Globe; Duff Wilson, The Seattle Times Fast Track - Doing the Education Investigation Bob Frahm, Hartford Courant; Tim Simmons, Raleigh News & Observer 5:30 p.m. Membership meeting - Board elections 7 p.m. Bob Greene bus tour of New York Sunday, June 4 9 a.m. Workshop - Training your newsroom Workshop - Editors: Strategies for success Workshop - News Directors: Strategies for success 10:30 a.m. IRE-Poynter report on online investigations: Strategies for success when you return Poynter presentation and ethics of broadcast investigations A Poynter course in writing Noon Conference ends