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| 2007 IRE Conference | June 7-10, 2007 |
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Conference Highlights
Awards Luncheon 
Dana Priest of the Washington Post will present the keynote address at the Awards Luncheon, which features the presentation of the 2006 IRE Awards. The luncheon will allow members to salute the best investigative work of the year. Dana Priest covers the intelligence community and national security issues for The Washington Post and is an analyst for NBC News. In her 20 years of work for the Post, Priest has written extensively on the CIA’s covert counterterrorism operations around the world, the agency’s secret rendition and detention practices and the intelligence lapses involving the Sept. 11 plot and the failure of pre-war intelligence in Iraq. She was the Post's Pentagon correspondent for seven years. She covered the invasion of Panama (1989), reported from Iraq (1990), covered the Kosovo war (1999), and has traveled widely with Army Special Forces in Asia, Africa and South America and with Army infantry units on peacekeeping duty in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. In 2006 she received a number of awards for her reporting on CIA secret prisons and counterterrorism operations overseas. These include The Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting, The George Polk Award for National Reporting and The Overseas Press Club’s Bob Considine Award for interpretation of international affairs. She also received the first Distinquished Social Sciences Alumni Award from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2006. Priest’s widely acclaimed 2003 book about the military’s expanding responsibility and influence, “THE MISSION: Waging War and Keeping Peace With America’s Military,” won the prestigious New York Public Library Bernstein Book Award and was a finalist for The Pulitzer Prize. In 2004, she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist twice, for her reporting on clandestine intelligence, and for her contribution to the Post's reporting on the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal. In 2001, Priest was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing grant and was a guest scholar in residence at the U.S. Institute of Peace. She received the 2001 Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the National Defense for her series "The Proconsuls: A Four-Star Foreign Policy?” and the State Department’s Excellence in Journalism Award for the same series. Priest holds a B.A. in political science from the University of California at Santa Cruz. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and two children. The Awards Luncheon will be held on Saturday in the McArthur Ballroom. Admission to the event is included with conference registration. Tickets are available at the Sales Desk for those not registered for the conference. Optional CAR day The conference will begin with an optional computer-assisted reporting day on Thursday, June 7. The day will focus on using CAR techniques to add depth and context to investigative stories. IRE instructors will tailor their presentations to both beginning and advanced CAR users. Hands-on CAR training will be available throughout the conference, with experts in a CAR Demo Room offering one-on-one instruction and small workshops. In addition, the IRE staff will be available to answer questions and review databases included in the expanding Database Library of IRE and the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting. Audio recording Again, we’ve included access to all audio recorded panels in the conference registration fee. To access the audio recordings, conference attendees will simply go to the conference Web site after the conference (we will send a message when the recordings are available), enter your membership number, and download the panels of your choice. For members who did not attend the conference, the recordings will be available for a fee. Please contact the Resource Center (573-882-3364 or beth@ire.org) for more information. Mentoring The conference will offer an opportunity for in-depth, one-on-one coaching on investigative reporting. These private sessions will allow attendees to seek advice on challenging stories or follow-up ideas. Journalists have the opportunity to sign up for mentors before the conference. ( Sign-ups for one-on-one mentoring is now closed) The broadcast Show & Tell, always a favorite with television journalists, is back. These sessions will offer broadcasters feedback on their latest work. New tapes are shown every 15 minutes in Salon A on Friday and Saturday. Hours: 9 a.m.-noon and 2:45-5:45 p.m. International luncheon (Sponsor: American University) IRE will host journalists from outside the United States at this networking luncheon that will include strategies for training and working together.The luncheon will be held in the Aztec Room at 1:15 p.m. on Friday. This is an invitation-only event.
The Blues Bash begins at 7 p.m. Refreshments will be sold at a cash bar. “Free” light food and snacks will be provided while limited supplies last. Those with larger appetites can find ribs, chicken, sandwiches and other sustenance for sale at the Rack Shack BBQ stand, adjacent to The Rhythm Room. Rack Shack’s menu is posted at www.rsbbq.com/menus.htm. Advance tickets are available online for a limited time at a discounted price of $20. If tickets are still available on Thursday, you may purchase them at the Sales Desk. You can also get directions to The Rhythm Room at the Sales Desk. If you paid for the Blues Bash when you registered for the conference, a wristband will be included in your registration packet. You must wear the wristband to get into the Blues Bash. The Blues Bash is an IRE event hosted by former board member Mark Lagerkvist (Mark@Lagerkvist.net). In its first eight years, the Bash has raised more than $24,000 for IRE’s Resource Center.
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