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Posts Tagged ‘CAR Conference’
Inside the IRE Awards: Deadly Delays
By Hannah Schmidt This week on IRE Radio we’ll be taking you inside the 2013 IRE Awards with audio from some of the reporters, editors and producers who worked on prize-winning stories. View the complete list of winners here. Deadly Delays “Deadly Delays” exposed processing delays that put newborn lives at risk. Ellen Gabler is the reporter and…
Read MoreStep inside the NICAR14 photo booth
Video by Travis Hartman. Learn more about his work at pleaseshootyourself.com.
Read MoreAUDIO: Using data to cover hazmat pollution
By Hannah Schmidt Journalists Denise Malan, Ben Poston and Tim Wheeler all used data to create stories on hazardous materials and the environment. The three discussed state and national databases that track pollution and hazardous waste at the NICAR Conference in Baltimore. NICAR offers a hazardous waste database. Malan described how to use it and what…
Read More2014 CAR Conference audio available online
Couldn’t make it to all of the sessions on your NICAR Conference wish list? We’ve got audio from nearly every panel and session. Full-length recordings are only available to IRE members. Some short audio clips will be made available to the public using Soundcloud. To access conference audio, log in to IRE website and go…
Read MoreFERPA Frustrations: How to outmaneuver university officials to get the info you need
By Donovan Harrell Three journalists offered advice to students struggling with public records requests during a brown bag session at the 2014 CAR Conference. Student attendees talked about attempts to outmaneuver their respective universities, which had been denying public records requests using laws such as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the…
Read MoreAUDIO: Alberto Cairo on the next generation of data viz
[View the story “Highlights: The next generation of data viz” on Storify]
Read More#NICAR14 in sketches
If you’re following Emily DeMarco (@eademarco), of PublicSource, on Twitter, you know she sketched her way through the 2014 CAR Conference. We turned her visual depiction of #NICAR14 into a Storify. Here are a few of our favorite cartoons: Thanks to all the @IRE_NICAR organizers, speakers (and Nicarians for retweeting my #comics!) #nicar14 pic.twitter.com/cKsFyKnsO4 —…
Read MoreInside the global offshore money maze
By Anna Boiko-Weyrauch You can search for companies and individuals in your area who are hiding assets offshore with a database maintained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Members of the team walked the audience through their project on offshore tax havens at the Saturday session, “Inside the global offshore money maze.” When the…
Read MoreStorify: Static vs. Dynamic Web Applications Debate
[View the story “NICAR Debate: Static vs. Dynamic Web Applications” on Storify]
Read MoreStorify: Social media for investigations
[View the story “Social media for investigations” on Storify]
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