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Seeking ideas for NICAR 2016 Lightning Talks
Lightning Talks are back for the 2016 CAR Conference in Denver. Pitch your ideas at lightningtalks.ire.org by Feb. 21. What are lightning talks? 5 minute talks on any subject. Anyone who is attending NICAR 2016 can pitch and the attendees vote on the talks they want to see. The 10 talks with the most…
Read MoreData journalism teachers: Share your best practices at the 2016 CAR Conference
What works in your college-level computer-assisted reporting or data journalism course? Is there one piece from your syllabus that you find to be especially successful with your students? Is there an approach to teaching this that works every time? Is there a data set that is a sure bet? Is there a magical exercise that…
Read MoreIRE Radio Podcast | The Journalists and the Death Squad
On this episode, reporter A.C. Thompson discusses his investigation into the deaths of five Vietnamese-American journalists between 1981 and 1990. Officials seemed to think that an anti-Communist group called the Front had been behind the slayings, but law enforcement agencies never charged anyone and the cases went cold. Thompson reopened the investigation for ProPublica and…
Read MoreVote now for the 2016 NICAR T-shirt
NICAR received 14 submissions for its annual T-shirt contest, and voting is now open! Voting will stay open for about one week, ending Sunday, Feb. 7 at midnight. The proposal with the most votes will be sold as a T-shirt at the upcoming CAR Conference, March 10-13 in Denver. Runners-up will be sold as laptop…
Read MoreFellowship inspired by ‘Spotlight’ to award funding, support to investigative journalists
By Sacha Pfeiffer, The Boston Globe ‘Spotlight’ on the IRE Radio Podcast Listen to Pfeiffer, Walter Robinson and Marty Baron discuss the Globe’s reporting in 2002 and 2003. Fourteen years ago, my Boston Globe Spotlight team colleagues and I published our first story about the Catholic Church’s widespread cover-up of clergy sex abuse. It was…
Read MoreAdd context to stories on car crashes, seatbelt safety and drunken driving using FARS data
How many people die in car accidents? Sometimes you’ll see the answer to that question flashing on a billboard on the highway. It’s also in the DOT’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) database, a census of fatality accidents on public roads in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. You can use the data…
Read MoreMark your calendar for the first IRE Chicago Meetup this year
Join us for the first IRE Chicago Meetup of the year! We’ll be gathering at The M Lounge (1520 S. Wabash Ave. Chicago, IL) on Thursday, Feb. 4 from 6-9 p.m. As with all of our Meetups, you don’t have to be an IRE member to attend. So bring a friend, colleague or anyone you…
Read MoreRegister for special training Wednesday at the CAR Conference
Start your 2016 CAR Conference a day early to take advantage of some special training opportunities from our partners. Reveal/The Center for Investigative Reporting will once again offer “Techraking <=16: Bootstrapping the News,” a popular workshop that helps attendees set up their computers to take advantage of all the tools they’ll be learning about…
Read MoreSubmit session, speaker ideas for the 2016 IRE Conference
IRE is looking to you for input in planning sessions for the upcoming IRE Conference, June 16-19 in New Orleans. Please let us know what you’d like to learn – and who you’d like to hear from – at this year’s conference. You can submit panel topics and suggest speakers. The more we hear from…
Read MoreSend in your entries for the 2016 NICAR T-shirt contest
NICAR will once again be selling a T-shirt in celebration of data and the people who love and care for them, which will help raise money for future NICAR training events. NICAR is currently accepting ideas and designs for T-shirts. We will accept entries up through Sunday, Jan. 31. Send official entries to shirts@ire.org. Only submissions sent to…
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