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CAR Conference Blog
Approaching business journalism with a data state of mind
By Hilary Niles@nilesmedia When you think of a company, don’t think of something with a physical presence, like a storefront or a corporate headquarters. That’s just not how companies are organized these days, said Chris Taggart of OpenCorporates.org. And in many cases, he said, there’s simply no single entity that encompasses all of a corporation’s…
Read MoreTools, slides and links from NICAR12
IRE will be collecting tipsheets from the conference and storing them in the Resource Center for members to search and download. Chrys Wu, a journalist and engagement editor, is collecting online resources from the conference, as she did during the 2011 CAR Conference. Here is the beginning of her online post: One of the most popular posts…
Read MoreDay one highlights, one reporter’s perspective
Patrick Sweet, a CAR reporter at the The News Journal in Wilmington, Del., and formerly at The Citizens’ Voice, shared some of his favorit sessions from the conference on his blog. Here are his thoughts on NewsCamp: Investigating text in the wild and Locating the story: The latest in mapping as well as other panels. His…
Read MoreHow journalists can target tablets
By Kyle Deas @KyleDeas News organizations looking to enter the mobile space are confronted with a bewildering array of formats, devices, and operating systems. In a late-day session on Thursday, Daniel Lathrop and Will Sullivan talked through some of the options and the reasons why newsrooms could take one approach or another. Lathrop is the…
Read MoreMining social networks
By Jessica Pupovac @jessicapupovac One of the best things about social media for journalists, Doug Haddix said, is that most people don’t understand what’s private and what isn’t. “Too bad for them. But good for us.” Haddix said during his presentation on social media sleuthing. Haddix, who is the Director of the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism at Ohio State…
Read MoreCAR for the whole newsroom
By Sarah Morris @smorris198888 In Integrating CAR: Story Ideas for the Whole Newsroom, Mark Wert of The Cincinnati Enquirer and Jaimi Dowdell of IRE/NICAR gave ideas and tips relating to different beats that would require CAR skills. Some of the tips they shared included: Build your own database. Use two databases to tell a story.…
Read MoreConference schedule for mobile devices
There are several ways to access the 2012 Computer-Assisted Reporting Conference schedule. The official schedule will be updated online to reflect any changes from the addendum to the printed program. There are also two options to view the schedule on mobile devices. Michelle Johnson, professor at Boston University, created a mobile app on Guidebook, which can…
Read MoreDay one addendum
Changes to the printed program can be downloaded here. Printed copies are available at registration. The conference web pages will be updated to note any schedule changes, as well as the confernece blog.
Read MoreFinding sentiment in text
By Anna Boiko-Weyrauch @AnnaBoikoW It’s been nothing but unrequited love between computational linguists and journalists, until now. For years, linguists have parsed the English language by examining news articles, Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Noah Smith, said at the NewsCamp::Text as Data workshop on Thursday morning. “You may not know this,” he said, “but…
Read MoreDining in St. Louis: Getting away from the hotel
By Jaimi Dowdell and Jennifer LaFleur@jaimidowdell and @j_la28 In general, St. Louis is known for a few tasty (and not so tasty) food items: toasted ravioli, gooey butter cake, beer, other beer, Fitz’s root beer, freakishly sticky pizza cheese and Ted Drewes Frozen Custard. There’s also plenty of fine dining, microbreweries and a slew of Italian restaurants in…
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