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Posts Tagged ‘archives’
Join us at The National Summit on Local News Preservation
This event seeks to bring together representatives from news and cultural heritage organizations. Editors, reporters, and journalists from all types of media organizations are encouraged to attend, as are archivists, librarians, and other heritage professionals.
Read MoreWhen nerds and words collide
In 1999, Nora Paul organized a gathering at The Poynter Institute of a group of journalists who were on the cutting edge of computer-assisted reporting at the time. The result was a short book titled “When Nerds and Words Collide,” featuring chapters from many leaders in data-driven journalism. It also details the beginning of what…
Read MoreRemembering journalist Richard Ben Cramer
Richard Ben Cramer, a journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979 as a foreign correspondent for The Philadelphia Inquirer, died this week from complications of lung cancer. Cramer’s writing career spanned politics and sports, and in addition to the Inquirer his work appeared in magazines such as Esquire and Rolling Stone. Cramer authored several books, including What It…
Read MoreCAR through the ages
There’s been talk of a couple books IRE put out back in the early 90’s titled 101 (and later 100) Computer-assisted reporting stories. Sadly, there’s only one copy of each here at the home office, both of which we’d like to keep for our archives. However, all of the story questionnaires that are featured in…
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