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2016 IRE Conference Addendum
Thursday, June 16, 2016
Schedule changes and additions
THURSDAY
New! Welcome and overview of the conference
8:30-8:50 a.m. in Salon E
IRE Staff
NICAR Commons: How to enter (and win) a duPont Award
10:15-11:15 in Preservation Hall
**Moderated by Lisa R. Cohen, Columbia Journalism School
In this session, Lisa R. Cohen will discuss and demystify the duPont Award process. Former award winners will join the session to talk about their work as well.
New Orleans Second Line parade to Welcome Reception
6:45 p.m.
Don't miss the traditional New Orleans Second Line parade that will depart the New Orleans Marriott on Thursday at 6:45 p.m. The parade will head to the Welcome Reception at the Aquarium. Join in the excitement with the band and grab your beads to take part in this New Orleans tradition.
NICAR Commons: Story clinic
11:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m. in Preservation Hall
Speakers: Jaimi Dowdell, Mark Horvit, Liz Lucas, Megan Luther, Alex Richards
Got a question on how to pursue a story? Curious about how to approach a FOIA? Stumped by some data? IRE and NICAR staff will be available to offer advice. Story consultations are confidential and will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
IRE Board Meeting
2-6 p.m. in Riverview (41st floor)
The meeting is open to all IRE members.
NICAR Commons: How to develop your own hyper personalized organizational system
2:30-3:30 p.m. in Preservation Hall
**Moderated by Jesse Patel, WorkFlowy
In this session, Jesse Patel will work with people one-on-one to create a custom set up in WorkFlowy, the powerful organizational tool he helps develop. He will show you how to create an organizational system perfectly tailored to your way of working and thinking. He'll go through as many people as he can in the time allotted, with everyone watching and contributing ideas. Jesse is happy to keep working with people after the time expires if there isn't enough time to work with everyone who attends.
NICAR Commons: Investigating realities: A VR discussion
3:45-4:45 p.m. in Preservation Hall
NICAR Commons: What to do about talented but troublesome reporters
5-6 p.m. in Preservation Hall
**Moderated by Jennifer Forsyth, The Wall Street Journal
Editors and managers will get together to share notes and compare tips on dealing with investigative journalists who have tremendous skills but who also present management challenges. These types include those who alienate their sources or colleagues, who are overzealous in their conclusions, who refuse to embrace 21st century media or who fight every proposed edit to their work.
FRIDAY
NICAR Commons: What to do about dedicated but frustrating editors
9-10 a.m. in Preservation Hall
**Moderated by Alison Young, USA TODAY NETWORK
Reporters will get together to share strategies for pursuing watchdog and investigative stories while working for editors whose management styles can make the work more difficult. These types of editors include those who are unable to prioritize daily and enterprise workloads, as well as those who don't understand how investigative reporting is done. We'll also discuss strategies for dealing with editors who are micromanagers and overzealous rewriters, as well as those who try to push a story's conclusions beyond what the reporting shows. Bring your tips for how you've successfully managed challenging editor situations.
NICAR Commons: The Southern Girls Project
10:15-11:15 a.m. in Preservation Hall
Speakers: Elizabeth Hoekenga, Connor Sheets, Diana Samuels
From obesity to educational-inequity to abortion access to Title IX, so many of our nation’s most pressing issues come to land at the feet of girls in the American Deep South. Yet these very voices are wildly under-represented in today’s media. Who talks to girls? More importantly – who listens?
In a new, open-source Southern Girls Project, journalists across the south are joining with girls, and their advocates, to dive deeper and learn more, examining the issues of the modern south through the eyes of girls from birth to 17 — from generational wealth and crushing poverty, insularity, religion, and the digital divide — and digging into stories too often overlooked.
This session will offer an overview of the project, seek feedback, and explain how news organizations and independent journalists can play a part. The project, stemming from AL.com’s Alabama Investigative Journalism Lab, includes partners from NOLA.com, Mississippi Press, freelance journalists, researchers and girls across the south.
We’re looking for data journalists, reporters, video storytellers, social media experts and all journalists who believe that listening to, and reporting with, an audience makes for better stories.
NICAR Commons: Julia - One language to rule them all
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. in Preservation Hall
**Moderated by Daniel Lathrop, University of Iowa
If you follow the buzz on emerging programming languages, the Julia scientific programming language is all the rage. Importantly for data journalists, it is a statistically oriented language with the ability to easily use existing libraries for R, Python, C and even Java.
NICAR Commons: Civility and freedom of speech
2:30-3:30 p.m. in Preservation Hall
**Moderated by Lynn Walsh, Society of Professional Journalists
Are we becoming too PC and sensitive? Is this impacting how we cover issues and produce news content? Join the discussion as we tackle story pitches, how we interview story subjects, and more.
NICAR Commons: Trolls, predatory lending and resegregation: Exploring Livingston Award winning stories with the Knight Foundation
3:45-4:45 p.m. in Preservation Hall
**Moderated by Jennifer Preston, Knight Foundation
Meet the 2016 winners of The Livingston Awards for Young Journalists who will describe how they produced award-winning investigative reporting using data, unusual cross-country partnerships and a trip to Russia to find the trolls wrecking the Internet.
SATURDAY
NICAR Commons: The good, bad & the ugly parts of newsrooom on-boarding processes (and how can we make them better)
9-10 a.m. in Preservation Hall
**Moderated by Sandhya Kambhampati, Knight-Mozilla OpenNews fellow
Knight-Mozilla OpenNews fellow, Sandhya, wants to hear about how your newsroom is dealing with institutional knowledge that is lost when a person leaves your newsroom. Let's have a discussion about how we can work through ways to make these processes more efficient and useful for the future. You can also take her survey: bit.ly/newsroomonboarding
NICAR Commons: Meet and greet - Accessing closed religious communities
10:15-11:15 a.m. in Preservation Hall
**Moderated by Hans Peter Blicher, TV2 Denmark
What goes on inside conservative religious communities? How do we access parallel societies? Why do young boys turn into Isis fighters? And how can we help each other cover these stories and share information?
TV 2 Denmark invites you to an informal meet and greet session. We hope to meet and exchange contact information with other reporters from around the globe who share the interest in covering these subjects. We think that forming an international network of journalists could be useful and hopefully we will be able to help each other in the future. TV 2 Denmark has worked extensively with closed religious communities -- over the past months the station has aired four documentaries based on hidden-camera recordings by two moles installed in a conservative religious community in Denmark. A short excerpt from the series will be played.
NICAR Commons: How to have "the talk" with your editor
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. in Preservation Hall
**Moderated by Steven Rich, The Washington Post
Great news: there's data out there on nearly every possible subject! Bad news: a lot of it is basically unusable for any number of reasons. It can be difficult to tell your editor that the data doesn't exist or is too poor to use. Let's talk about strategies to help have this conversation in both our newsrooms and in the data journalism community.
NICAR Commons: Story clinic (repeat)
3-4 p.m. in Preservation Hall
Speakers: Mark Horvit, Megan Luther, Denise Malan
Got a question on how to pursue a story? Curious about how to approach a FOIA? Stumped by some data? IRE and NICAR staff will be available to offer advice. Story consultations are confidential and will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
NICAR Commons: Knight workshop - 10 campus investigations you can start today
4:15-5:15 p.m. in Preservation Hall
Speaker: Sarah Hutchins
Learn how to hold the powerful accountable at your university. At this session, we'll introduce 10 story ideas and discuss the sources, documents and data needed for each. Learn how to expose problems with student housing, independent study classes and Greek life. Get the ammunition you need to follow your student fees, investigate your campus police and background your school's trustees.
IRE Membership meeting
Saturday, 5:30-6:15 p.m. in a new location: Carondelet (3rd floor)
Speaker changes
THURSDAY
Investigating billionaires: Reg Chua, Reuters (moderator) replaces Len Downie. Brian Ross will not be attending.
Tracking down investigative threads: Dan Kane, The News & Observer, replaces Scott Bronstein.
Educators: Doing investigations with students: Brandon Quester, Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, replaces Len Downie.
Uncovering stories on the health beat: Jenn Abelson, The Boston Globe, joins the panel. Ellen Gabler will moderate.
From lone wolf to team player: The evolution of the investigative reporter: James Grimaldi, The Wall Street Journal, replaces Len Downie.
Investigating inequality: Susan Smith Richardson will not be attending.
Campus coverage: The cost of going to college: Alex Richards, IRE/NICAR, replaces Jill Riepenhoff.
Investigating in the wake of disaster (Sponsored by Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma): Irwin Redlener, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, is added to this session.
#Black(media)matters (Sponsored by The Louisiana Weekly): Kristal Brent Zook, Hofstra University, and David Baker, The Louisiana Weekly has been added to the session.
Investigating supply chains (Sponsored by Knight Foundation): Martha Mendoza and Peter Klein will not be speaking.
Investigating inequality: Kristal Brent Zook, Hofstra University, has been added to this session.
Broadcast showcase: The changing network landscape: Rhonda Schwartz will not be attending.
Broadcast Show & Tell: Dave Savini, CBS/WBBM Chicago, replaces Patricia DiCarlo, CNN, from 5:00-5:55 p.m.
FRIDAY
Reporting on guns: Jonathan Bullington, The Times-Picayune/NOLA.com, replaces Michael Luo.
Seafood from Slaves: The story behind an IRE Medal winner: Martha Mendoza, AP, is not attending.
Showcase panel: Brian Ross will be replaced by Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica, as moderator.
SATURDAY
Broadcast: Feeding the beast: Aaron Diamant, WSB-Atlanta, replaces Erica Proffer.
Broadcast: 60 stories in 60 minutes: Jennifer Cobb, KHOU-Houston, replaces Eva Parks.
Human rights investigations (Sponsored by Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma): Angela Kocherga, Cronkite News and Arizona PBS, has been added to the session.
When journalism and security research collide (Sponsored by Knight Foundation): Yael Grauer, independent journalist, has been added to the session.
Uncovering stories on the schools beat: Francisco Vara-Orta, University of Missouri, replaces Susan Ferriss.
Broadcast Show & Tell: Sarah Buduson, WEWS-Cleveland, will replace Jeff Harris as the moderator from 4:15-5:15 p.m. Patricia DiCarlo, CNN, replaces Dave Savini, CBS/WBBM Chicago, from 10:15-11:25 a.m.
SUNDAY
Hot emerging environmental topics to take home with you (Sponsored by Society of Environmental Journalists): Ingrid Lobet, inewsource will replace Liz Szabo
New sponsors
TEGNA Foundation
New exhibitors
Trivago
Welcome to the 2016 IRE Conference. Below are a few bits of information to help you prepare for this great conference!
For the most up-to-date information about panels, speakers and special events at the conference, please visit our conference website at: https://www.ire.org/conferences/ire-2016/
Hotel information
The conference is taking place at the New Orleans Marriott, 555 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA, 70130.
Registration
Conference registration opens Wednesday at 2 p.m. and will re-open Thursday morning at 7:30 a.m. on the 2nd floor of the hotel. Registration remains open Friday and Saturday.
Weather
New Orleans weather will be in the high 80's to low 90's this week with rain chances each day. See the New Orleans full weather report - thanks to weatherchannel.com.
Complimentary wireless internet during the conference
Complimentary wireless internet will be offered in the meeting space for attendees during the IRE conference. Signs will be posted near the registration desk with the wireless access code. In addition, attendees staying at the New Orleans Marriott in the IRE block will receive complimentary internet in their guest rooms.
Have a question or need help in a session
Room monitors will be stationed in the hallways during sessions and will be happy to answer your questions. Additionally, if you need something, email IREhelp@ire.org and IRE staff will respond as quickly as possible.
IRE Board Meeting
2 p.m., Thursday, June 16 in Riverview 1, located on the 41st floor of the New Orleans Marriott
This meeting is open to all IRE members.
Traditional New Orleans Second Line parade and welcome reception
6:45 p.m., Thursday, June 16
Don't miss the traditional New Orleans Second Line parade that will depart the New Orleans Marriott on Thursday at 6:45pm to head to the welcome reception at the Aquarium. Join in the excitement with the band and grab your beads to take part in this New Orleans tradition. Each attendee at the welcome reception will receive one drink ticket and light appetizers will be served.
Media lawyers brown bag
12:45 p.m., Friday, June 17 in Galerie 6
Does your investigation contain complex legal questions? Unsure of how to proceed? During the media lawyers brown bag, between 12:45 and 2:15 p.m. on Friday, June 17, bring your lunch and your questions for a personal discussion with some prominent media law experts. We'll provide drinks and dessert.
Closing Reception
6:30 p.m., Saturday, June 18 in Acadia
Enjoy one last evening of catching up with friends, speakers, and colleagues. Appetizers will be served and a cash bar will be available.
IRE Conference App
Don't forget to download the conference app before you leave for the conference. Have the latest schedule at your fingertips throughout the conference, check speaker bios, plan your own schedule, and keep up-to-date with any panel changes that happen. You also have the option to network with other attendees and complete session/panel evaluations directly from the app (you will also receive a daily email with the evaluation if you prefer to complete it that way). Please be sure to complete evaluations as these help us plan next year's conference.
Internet is not required for the app to work once it's downloaded; however, it is necessary to receive any updates that are sent out. Complimentary internet will be available in the meeting space throughout the conference. The app is available for iOS, Android, Blackberry and web-enabled devices. Download the app!
Conference addendums
Be sure to check the conference app (daily updates icon) or your email each day. This is where you will receive the conference addendum with any last minute changes. A few paper copies will also be available at the registration desk each morning.
Broadcast Show & Tell and one-on-one mentoring
Show & Tell sessions allow you to share your investigations with colleagues from around the country. Veteran broadcasters will moderate each session. Each slot runs for 10 minutes. Details on signing up can be found here.
One-on-one mentoring sessions will be available during the conference with Al Tompkins and Barry Nash and Company. Click here for additional details and to sign up for Al Tompkins. Click here for additional details and to sign up for Barry Nash and Company.
Twitter/Student blog
Use #IRE16 during the conference and stop by the registration desk to see live tweets on the announcement monitor. We've got a full team of bloggers and you can see their work online and in the conference app.
Special training
Be sure to check out the list of special sessions, social events, and other activities that are taking place this week. See the full list here.
Contact IRE
We want everyone to have a great conference. If you have any concerns, run into any problems or need to contact a member of the IRE staff for any reason, we've set up several ways to reach us. Please remember that whether you're in a session, walking the hallway or hanging out at the bar, it's important to respect all of your fellow attendees. IRE and NICAR have long been known for our sense of community, and we should all be sure that everyone feels welcome.
Reach out by phone: 573-880-5473
Send a text: 573-880-5473
Send an email: IREhelp@ire.org
Complete the form
We thank you for your continued support and are looking forward to seeing you in New Orleans!
The IRE Board of Directors has appointed a committee of IRE members and representatives of the University of Missouri School of Journalism to conduct a search for IRE's next executive director. The committee is in the process of reviewing applications and conducting initial interviews with candidates.
In the coming weeks, the committee has been asked to recommend finalist candidates to IRE's board of directors, who will make the final decision. Details about the job are posted here. Applications will continue to be accepted until the position is filled.
Members of the search committee are:
The 2016 IRE Conference app is now available through Guidebook!
We encourage you to download our mobile guide to enhance your experience at the 2016 IRE Conference. You'll be able to plan your day with a personalized schedule and browse exhibitors, maps and general show information.
The app is free and compatible with iPhones, iPads, iPod Touches and Android devices. Windows Phone 7 and Blackberry users can access the same information via our mobile site.
To get the guide, choose one of the methods below:
COLUMBIA, MISSOURI: Investigative Reporters and Editors is proud to announce the finalists for its 2016 Golden Padlock Award celebrating the most secretive government agency or individual in the United States.
“Transparency and accountability are concepts routinely embraced by politicians and public officials -- and just as routinely abandoned when they become inconvenient,” said Robert Cribb, chair of the IRE’s Golden Padlock committee.
“This year’s dubious crop of distinguished nominees covers the landscape of public interest contempt – from imagining creative legal obstacles for denying release of public interest records, to mind-boggling delays to indefensible fees that reach into the hundreds of millions of dollars.
“Together, they represent the very best of American government secrecy.”
The nominees are:
1. The Massachusetts Supervisor of Public Records Shawn Williams and Secretary of State William F. Galvin for supporting the withholding of a wide range of public records including race and ethnicity data and a recording of a public official making derogatory comments about two women at a public meeting. In one case, Williams upheld a $6,600 fee to complete a Boston Globe request for a log of public requests received by the State Police, saying it was "reasonable" for state officials to spend 265 hours reviewing the log before release. The Globe has challenged Williams’ decisions through the courts and has won five times -- an expensive and time-consuming process that has dramatically delayed release of vital public records.
2. The U. S. Department of Defense Office of Freedom of Information for officially responding that it would require 15 million labor hours (more than 1,712 years for one person) and a $660 million fee (roughly the value of the Washington Nationals major league baseball team) to fulfill a FOIA request for the number of “HotPlug” portable power providers possessed by the Pentagon. The request was made in July, 2015 by government secrecy researcher Martin Peck through the MuckRock collaborative investigative news site about the devices Pentagon investigators use to transfer the computers of security risk suspects to their forensic laboratories without shutting them down. The agency responded, over the signature of FOIA chief Stephanie L. Carr, in February, 2016, that the information was hidden in “more than 45 million documents” in the Pentagon’s Electronic Documents Access system, for which “no method exists for a complete text search” digitally, necessitating the “15 million labor hours at an estimated cost of $660 million.” The absurdity of this response by the Pentagon office responsible for providing public information was underlined when another part of the Defense Department, the Office of the Inspector General, quickly responded to a similar FOIA request from Peck with the information that its investigations arm “has three WeibeTech HotPlug systems and zero equivalent forensic override systems by other suppliers.
3. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE/“Bessie”) for repeated failures in creating, maintaining and releasing records pertaining to its core purpose. Created to fix the broken system that led to the Deepwater Horizon spill, BSEE was designed to place greater emphasis on environmental and worker safety and less on the promotion of oil and gas development. But a FOIA request for weekly reports by journalist David Hammer has now gone unfulfilled for 15 months and counting. In response to another request, BSEE denied that it kept a list of poorly performing oil companies, later producing the supposedly non-existent list in response to an appeal. In another case, the agency provided safety audits for offshore companies that were blacked out so completely that no relevant information could be read.
4. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for withholding records about the qualifications of medical staff who evaluated thousands of veterans for potential brain injuries following service to their country. When TEGNA TV stations across the U.S. formally requested the information, VA hospitals withheld the names, board certifications and medical specialties of doctors performing the exams, saying release of the information "would not contribute to the public's understanding of the Federal Government." Kare11 in Minneapolis first obtained records showing many potential brain injuries were evaluated by staff whose qualifications did not meet the VA’s own requirements, potentially missing cases of injuries that can trigger additional benefits for veterans. Following an internal investigation, the VA now acknowledges 25,000 veterans across the country had their brain injury diagnoses performed by doctors who were not qualified to make those diagnoses. TEGNA is currently in the process of appealing the agency's public disclosure denials.
5. The City of El Paso for efforts by elected municipal officials to lobby against their own electorate’s right to access public records. One member of the city’s council, Emma Acosta, attempted to change the local application of Texas’s state public-records law in 2016 by blocking requesters who had been convicted of crimes of “moral turpitude.” The item made the city’s agenda about a week after a blogger with a prior misdemeanor conviction filed a request for records concerning Ms. Acosta’s correspondence. When a local state representative pointed out that “a city can’t roll back state law,” the council dropped the item. Less than two weeks later, city councilors proposed a lobbying campaign to seek changes by the Texas legislature to further limit access to public records such as phone numbers. The city council ultimately tabled its efforts. But, as a series of investigations by the El Paso Times has shown, the city government may not need legal changes to avoid potentially embarrassing disclosures: On numerous occasions, the paper has reported, the city failed to release clearly public records that would later come to light, citing clerical mistakes and “human error.
The winner will be announced at IRE’s annual conference in New Orleans June 18. A representative from the winning agency will be invited to receive the honor.
Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. is a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of investigative reporting.
Judges for the 2016 Golden Padlock are:
Danielle Brian (executive director, Project On Government Oversight)
Robert Cribb (reporter, Toronto Star)
Leonard Downie (professor, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and former executive editor of The Washington Post)
Josh Meyer (senior investigative reporter, NBC News)
Susanne Reber (executive editor of Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting)
Christopher Weaver (reporter, Wall Street Journal)
CONTACT:
Robert Cribb, Golden Padlock committee chair: 416-579-0289; cribb@rogers.com
Mark Horvit, IRE Executive Director: 573-882-1984; mark@ire.org
Hundreds of journalists will be in New Orleans next week sharing skills, resources and story ideas as part of Investigative Reporters & Editors’ annual conference. With more than 400 speakers and 200 sessions, there’s something for everyone. Here are a few highlights:
There’s still time to join us June 16-19 at the New Orleans Marriott. Register online until June 14. After that, you can register on-site at the Marriott.
Get all the details here: http://bit.ly/1Yo51Pw
We’re offering several opportunities for broadcast journalists to receive individualized and small-group coaching at the IRE Conference in New Orleans.
Al Tompkins of Poynter will be offering a handful of one-on-one appointments on Friday and Saturday. Space is extremely limited. Sign up!
Barry Nash will bring his more than 30 years of experience to New Orleans for several personalized coaching sessions. If you have questions about any aspect of your delivery — your appearance, how you use your voice, how you can perform most effectively in the field or in the studio — this is an opportunity you won’t want to miss. Learn more about Barry Nash & Company and sign up! (Several of these time slots have been designated as Drop-In Slots. These sessions will not be available for reservation in advance, but will open up for sign-up once the conference is underway.)
We’ll also be offering Broadcast Show & Tell. These popular, interactive sessions allow you to share your investigations with colleagues from around the country. Veteran broadcasters will moderate each session. Each slot runs for 10 minutes and includes a 5-minute break. You will be able to reserve a time slot 24 hours in advance. Learn more about how it works, including how to sign up.
By Lee Zurik, WVUE/FOX8
Brett Anderson has one of the “toughest” jobs in the Crescent City. He gets paid to eat. For more than fifteen years, he’s been the restaurant critic at the Times-Picayune and you’d be hard-pressed to find someone with a better perspective of the New Orleans culinary landscape.
Anderson and I spent a recent afternoon at Herbsaint (on his list of recommendations), sharing Cornmeal Fried Oysters and Hot Sauce (incredibly delicious). In the true spirit of IRE, I took it upon myself to find out which restaurants he recommends for conference attendees.
Anderson’s list is a mix of high-end fine dining and neighborhood dives separated into three parts:
1. LUNCH – places you can get in and out in 90 minutes. All but one is near the hotel.
2. DINNER NEAR THE HOTEL – If you’re planning to eat with larger groups, make reservations now!!
3. DINNER CAB/UBER RIDE AWAY – Anderson is a big believer in exploring New Orleans food. “If you fly all the way to New Orleans, explore the whole city,” Anderson said. “It’s not that big. There are great places to eat in the French Quarter and Warehouse District, but if you never get uptown, you’re missing something.”
Enjoy the list and the food. And since we are all investigative reporters, I’ve included the link to the state’s restaurant inspection database.
LUNCH
IRE gives us about 90 minutes to eat lunch. Here are some of Anderson’s recommendations.
MR. B’s BISTRO – 201 Royal Street
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: .2 mile
MENU: http://www.mrbsbistro.com/menus.php
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2009/10/mr_bs_bistro_1.html
QUOTABLE: "They represent traditional New Orleans cooking quite well. They serve two types of gumbo, which are quite excellent."
BOURBON HOUSE – 144 Bourbon Street
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: .2 mile
MENU: http://www.bourbonhouse.com/menus/bourbon_house_lunch_menu
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2009/10/bourbon_house_1.html
QUOTABLE: "New Orleans' version of a French brasserie, with a large raw bar in the center of it."
COCHON BUTCHER – 930 Tchoupitoulas Street
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: .8 mile
MENU: http://www.cochonbutcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Butcher-Menu-TRIFOLD-FEBRUARY.pdf
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2009/10/cochon_butcher_1.html
QUOTABLE: "Sandwich dive spinoff of Cochon. Showcases some of the best charcuterie available in New Orleans."
KILLER PO BOYS – 219 Dauphine Street
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: .3 mile
MENU: http://www.killerpoboys.com/big-killer-menu
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2013/10/killer_po-boys.html
QUOTABLE: "It's where young chefs are smartly reimagining New Orleans most famous sandwich."
MIKE SERIO’S PO BOY – 133 St. Charles Avenue
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: .2 mile
MENU: http://seriospoboys.com/menu/2685738
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2011/09/seven_new_orleans_restaurants.html
QUOTABLE: "Traditional po-boy restaurant featuring all of the classics - Roast Beef, Fried Shrimp, Fried Oyster."
JOHNNY’S PO BOY – 511 St. Louis Street
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: .3 mile
MENU: http://johnnyspoboys.com/menus/po-boys/
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2011/12/johnnys_may_have_the_best_roas.html
QUOTABLE: "Similar to Mike Serio's. They serve food on the correct bread in unpretentious settings."
HERBSAINT – 701 St. Charles Avenue
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: .5 mile
MENU: http://www.herbsaint.com/
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2009/10/herbsaint_1.html
QUOTABLE: "Flagship restaurant of one of the city's most important chef/restaurateurs. In my top 10."
RESTAURANT AUGUST – 301 Tchoupitoulas Street
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: .2 mile
MENU: http://www.restaurantaugust.com/
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2009/10/restaurant_august_1.html
QUOTABLE: "Flagship restaurant of one of the city's most important chef/restauranteurs. In my top 10."
DOMENICA – 123 Baronne Street
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: .3 mile
MENU: http://domenicarestaurant.com/menu.html
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2010/10/domenica.html
QUOTABLE: "New Orleans' premier Italian restaurant. Very broad menu. All is available at lunch."
CAFÉ CARMO – 527 Julia Street
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: .6 mile
MENU: http://cafecarmo.com/index.php?page=menu
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2014/04/vegetarian-_and_vegan-friendly.html
QUOTABLE: "A vegetarian friendly lunch."
PARKWAY BAKERY – 538 Hagan Avenue
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: 2.3 miles
MENU: http://www.parkwaypoorboys.com/menu.html
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2009/10/parkway_bakery_tavern_1.html
QUOTABLE: "President Obama's favorite New Orleans po-boy place. It's a cab/uber trip from the hotel. Call ahead and order it take-out. Then eat at the bar. The line is normally long."
DINNER NEAR THE HOTEL
COCHON – 930 Tchoupitoulas Street
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: .8 mile
MENU: http://www.cochonrestaurant.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Cochon-Menu-2.22.16.pdf
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2009/10/cochon_1.html
QUOTABLE: "It opened in the spring following Hurricane Katrina. Cochon single handily reignited interest in Cajun cooking."
PECHE – 800 Magazine Street
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: .5 mile
MENU: http://www.pecherestaurant.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Peche-Dinner-2016.pdf
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2013/10/peche_seafood_grill.html
QUOTABLE: "The fish version of Cochon. Named best new restaurant in the country by the James Beard foundation."
EMERIL’S – 800 Tchoupitoulas Street
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: .6 mile
MENU: http://emerilsrestaurants.com/emerils-new-orleans/menus
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2009/10/emerils_1.html
QUOTABLE: "The best of Emeril's restaurants. I would particularly recommend it for serious wine drinkers."
GALATOIRE’S – 209 Bourbon Street
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: .3 mile
MENU: http://www.galatoires.com/home
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2009/10/galatoires_1.html
QUOTABLE: "The most singular restaurant in New Orleans. There isn't a place like it anywhere else. A place to get classic French-Creole dishes."
SYLVAIN – 625 Chartres Street
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: .4 mile
MENU: http://www.sylvainnola.com/menu.html
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2012/09/sylvain_1.html
QUOTABLE: "If you're interested in craft cocktails, this is the place to stop for some food and good drinks."
ANGELINE – 1032 Chartres Street
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: .7 mile
MENU: http://www.angelinenola.com/menus/
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2015/10/angeline.html
QUOTABLE: "A modern southern restaurant opened by one of New Orleans' most promising chefs."
IRENE’S CUISINE – 539 St. Philip Street
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: .7 mile
MENU: https://www.facebook.com/Irenes-Cuisine-111614012208245/menu/?p_ref=pa
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2009/10/irenes_cuisine_1.html
QUOTABLE: "New Orleans has its' own style of Italian cooking. We call it Creole Italian, and Irene's is one of the best places to get it."
MEAUXBAR – 942 North Rampart Street
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: 1 mile
MENU: http://www.meauxbar.com/menu/
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2009/10/meauxbar_bistro_1.html
QUOTABLE: "A modern spin on New Orleans' style French bistro. When you eat at MeauxBar, the French Quarter feels more like a neighborhood, and less like a destination."
DINNER – CAB/UBER RIDE AWAY
CLANCY’S – 6100 Annunciation St.
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: 4.9 miles
MENU: http://www.clancysneworleans.com/menu.htm
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2009/10/clancys_1.html
QUOTABLE: "Uptown's answer to Galatoires. Order the crab salad and Sazerac and from there, you are on your own."
SHAYA – 4213 Magazine Street
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: 3.3 miles
MENU: http://www.shayarestaurant.com/menu/
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2015/09/shaya.html
QUOTABLE: "One of New Orleans' most accomplished chefs serves up his interpretation of his native Israeli cuisine."
LA PETITE GROCERY – 4238 Magazine Street
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: 3.3 miles
MENU: http://www.lapetitegrocery.com/menus
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2009/10/la_petite_grocery_1.html
QUOTABLE: "The chef's interpretation of southern food through a French lens.
UPPERLINE – 1413 Upperline Street
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: 3.4 miles
MENU: http://www.upperline.com/index.php/special-dinners/reveillon2010/
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2009/10/upperline_1.html
QUOTABLE: "A traditional New Orleans bistro presided over by one of the city's most iconic chefs."
GAUTREAU’S – 1728 Soniat Street
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: 3.4 miles
MENU: http://www.gautreausrestaurant.com/pages/menu.php
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2009/10/gautreaus_1.html
QUOTABLE: "A restaurant that feels like a private club. The chef is nationally recognized for good reason."
COMMANDER’S PALACE – 1403 Washington Avenue
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: 2.1 miles
MENU: http://www.commanderspalace.com/uploads/files/March_dinner_CommandersPalace.pdf
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2009/10/commanders_palace_1.html
QUOTABLE: "The most influential restaurant in New Orleans and probably the entire south. It's built inside an old plantation house in the Garden District. If you are leaving late Sunday, make a reservation for Sunday brunch."
MANDINA’S – 3800 Canal Street
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: 2.3 miles
MENU: http://mandinasrestaurant.com/nola/main-menu/
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2009/10/mandinas_1.html
QUOTABLE: "It embodies what a New Orleans neighborhood restaurant is. In some cases, they put a blue collar twist on historically blue collar dishes."
BOULIGNY TAVERN – 3641 Magazine Street
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: 2.9 miles
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2011/09/new_orleans_bouligny_taverns_s.html
QUOTABLE: "More tavern than restaurant, but the food is excellent."
BACCHANAL – 600 Poland Avenue
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: 2.5 miles
MENU: http://www.bacchanalwine.com/menu-marquee/
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2012/09/bacchanal.html
QUOTABLE: "A permanent pop-up restaurant that exists almost entirely outside - on the back lawn of a Bywater wine store. They also have live music every night."
PALADAR 511 – 511 Marigny Street
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: 1.1 miles
MENU: http://www.paladar511.com/#!menu/c22j5
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2015/10/paladar_511.html
QUOTABLE: "In the "Faubourgh Marigny, Paladar 511 has fresh ingredients and reasonable prices. The restaurant is also a short walk to many music clubs on Frenchmen Street."
HIGH HAT CAFÉ – 4500 Freret Street
DISTANCE FROM HOTEL: 3 miles
MENU: http://highhatcafe.com/menu/
ANDERSON’S REVIEW: http://www.nola.com/dining-guide/index.ssf/2011/10/high_hat_cafe.html
QUOTABLE: "A modern spin on Mandinas, but with a menu that draws on cooking traditions of the Mississippi Delta as well."
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Investigative Reporters & Editors is looking for an executive director with the vision to lead the world’s largest organization supporting investigative and data journalism. The position involves overseeing a dynamic organization with more than 5,500 members internationally, 15 full-time staff members and dozens of volunteer contributors, as well as serving as a faculty member at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
For more than 40 years, IRE -- a nonprofit organization -- has led the journalism industry in supporting and training journalists in techniques for investigative reporting and data analysis. The organization runs the world’s biggest conferences on investigative journalism, and its data arm – the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR) – runs the world’s biggest data journalism conference. IRE provides training and resources for journalists in news organizations of all sizes, from rural U.S. communities to cities across the globe. Its website, ire.org, offers a growing portfolio of training tools, including podcasts, video tutorials and an extensive library of resources.
The right candidate will have investigative reporting experience, management experience, teaching or training experience and an enthusiasm for evangelizing on behalf of investigative journalism and raising funds to support that mission. The job is located in Columbia, Missouri, and the faculty appointment includes teaching one class per semester at the School of Journalism. The position also involves considerable travel, both domestically and internationally.
Candidate screening will begin June 2, though additional applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
Qualifications
IRE is looking for a candidate with:
Responsibilities
The executive director will:
To apply: This is a full-time, benefit-eligible, renewable, 12-month faculty appointment. Screening of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Applicants must submit a resume, a letter outlining employment history and achievements, including relevant material or samples that demonstrate work in investigative journalism, and any evidence of teaching experience and fund-raising. The names and contact information for three references should be provided. Please visit http://hrs.missouri.edu/find-a-job/academic/ to access the online application system. Reference job number 19604.
The University of Missouri is fully committed to achieving the goal of a diverse and inclusive academic community of faculty, staff and students. We seek individuals who are committed to this goal and our core campus values of respect, responsibility, discovery and excellence.
By Erica Berry
Editor's Note:
This article first ran on May 16, 2016 on the Columbia Journalism Review's website.
From the possibility of terrorists using encrypted apps to file-sharing software co-opted for pirated media, the gatekeepers of new technology are constantly confronted with what to do when users approach their tools in unexpected or suspect ways.
Last week, this issue landed closer to home in the journalism field, when ProPublica published “An Unintended Side Effect of Transparency,” an editorial about the site’s “Prescriber Checkup” database. Steve Engelberg, the site’s editor-in-chief, wrote that ProPublica had identified “clear signs” that a significant number of readers were using the database to search for doctors who freely prescribe opioids, raising questions about potential abuse.
Released in 2013, Prescriber Checkup relies on Medicare Part D data to show the prescribing habits of hundreds of thousands of doctors nationwide. The tool has had wide-ranging positive effects: ProPublica reporters have revealed how doctors often prescribe narcotics and antipsychotics in dangerously high doses, and patients, hospital administrators, and law enforcement officials have been able to compare, assess, and regulate doctor practices.
But according to the site’s Google Analytics data, up to 25 percent of database pageviews this year involved narcotic painkillers, anti-anxiety medications, and amphetamines, with many readers finding these pages after reading a “reporting recipe” framed to help local journalists pinpoint doctors who prescribed the highest number of narcotics. Others arrived after conducting web searches like “doctors who prescribe narcotics easily.”
The high readership and web traffic patterns led ProPublica to suspect the database was being used for, as Engelberg wrote, “not-so-beneficial” purposes. So the site, in addition to running the editorial, has added a warning to the database pages on narcotic drugs that links to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Today, we added warnings labels to the pages of narcotic drugs in our Prescriber Checkup app https://t.co/npfEc9WYxi pic.twitter.com/gvaPfBTYD8
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) May 12, 2016
ProPublica also published a brief story last week about efforts to fight the opioid epidemic. What it didn’t do is pull anything down.
The site’s measured handling of the issue has been applauded by other journalists on social media:
This is a fascinating ethical dilemma handled with great care. https://t.co/S1o9OqT9nG
— Lydia Polgreen (@lpolgreen) May 12, 2016
In an interview Friday, though, the healthcare data journalist Fred Trotter expressed concern that ProPublica, by calling attention to what it found, could trigger its own unintended consequences.
“The news here is that people are seeking opioids through ProPublica,” said Trotter, founder of CareSet Systems andDocGraph. But in his view, the data doesn’t support strong conclusions about motives: While some readers may be looking to support an illegitimate drug habit, others may simply be pain patients struggling to obtain legitimate opioids, given the concerns over abuse. In that climate, he worried that the steps taken by ProPublica might make things harder for people in need of pain treatment.
“If I was a person who was on opioids right now and I was reading this [editorial], I would have a knot in my stomach that you would not believe,” he said. “The number-one concern those people have…is that they will be lumped in with opioid abusers and their pain medication will be cut off.”
In his editorial, Engelberg did acknowledge that some of the people using the database were no doubt legitimately in need of treatment. Asked about Trotter’s concerns, he noted that the data in Prescriber Checkup continues to be fully available. “As far as I can see, we’ve done nothing that would affect the ability of patients hoping to find doctors who will treat their chronic pain,” he said.
Trotter said he believes he and ProPublica both subscribe to the same model of “radical transparency.” Rather than any big divergence in approach, then, the difference may just reflect different assessments about the risks in this context.
In an interview Friday, Engelberg added that he was skeptical of trying technical approaches to address ProPublica’s concerns, like obscuring the database from particular types of web searches. “I think that people who are determined to find things on the web go around you,” he said. “It’s kind of like stopping the ocean. You can build all the castles you want but the tides go where they go.”
He also discussed another possible consequence—that by publicizing its concerns, ProPublica could give a talking point to someone opposed to releasing other data sets.
“I wouldn’t be shocked if in our next argument about making public some certain data, someone in the government said, ‘Well this could happen,’ but I don’t think it’s a terribly valid argument,” said Engelberg. “Everything that you do in journalism when you bring something to light has potential benefits and potential downsides.”
Trotter agreed about that, noting that organizations on the fence about using open health data could “use this as an arrow” to articulate why they will avoid it.
He said he sees open data as a kind of “population health treatment.” In this sense, Trotter said, ProPublica’s recent findings of potential illegitimate use are a side effect, but one that should not distract from the larger good of the service. “If you have a drug that works, but five percent of the time it causes awful headaches, you don’t pull the drug.”
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