Learn the newest tools you need to dig deeper into stories and give readers, viewers and your online audience the information they're demanding at our annual conference devoted to computer-assisted reporting, Feb. 23-26, 2012, at the St. Louis Union Station Marriott.
Learn how to be a better journalist on any beat — from crime to politics — with Story Packs, collections of IRE and NICAR resources designed to help you approach reporting with an investigative mindset.
In a three-part, eight-story series, The Post, found that underage drinkers on Ohio University's campus were safer drinking at the bars than they were at a house party. It also broke down a three-year Ohio Liquor Control Commission oversight; allowing a bar to remain open for three-years under an intended suspension. The series also looks at drinking in dorms, which are the location of the most underage drinking citations.
The Pew Health Group (PHG) seeks a Senior Officer, Research and Writing, to increase the department’s ability to produce and disseminate high quality reports, ensuring that rigorous science is always the basis of PHG’s policy recommendations and priorities. Specifically, the position provides the department with an improved capacity to uncover and translate complex data, analysis and trends into well-written reports accessible to policy makers, thought leaders and the media in PHG priority issue areas. This position will report to Director, Research in the Health Group.
PHG seeks to improve the health and well being ...
Tableau Public will host two, four-hour hands-on training sessions Thursday, Feb. 23, at the CAR Conference on how to use the free software to visualize data and post it online. The sessions will cover the basics of Tableau to create interactive data visualizations on short deadlines, as well as how to create more complex visualizations.
Tableau for Beginners will cover:
Tableau for Pros will cover:
"In a multi-part series, The Seattle Times has found that almost 300 sex offenders in the state of Washington are detained indefinitely in a civil-commitment program. The center protects society from these predators, but is has been plagued by runaway legal costs, a lack of financial oversight and layers of secrecy"
Tucked away on reporters' computers are dozens of details that could benefit news coverage, if only other journalists knew where to look.
Newsrooms are swimming in data. Journalistic organizations big and small continue to collect data from local, state and federal governments, and dozens of other places. As the collection grows, making sense of that information can become more difficult.
That's what the PANDA project, a 2011 Knight News Challenge winner, wants to solve — make data analysis easier for journalists and make sharing ...
Read more ...During the weeklong IRE and NICAR Computer-Assisted Reporting Boot Camp you wake up thinking about spreadsheet pivot tables and practice so many database queries that you never want to ask another question that requires a “WHERE” statement. But the most important lesson that gets drilled into your head is a simple one: practice, practice, practice.
After I left the January 2011 boot camp, I tested out my skills on some smaller stories. I took a look at the public and private colleges that received Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits, which was primarily an exercise in cleaning up a Microsoft Excel ...
A Columbus Dispatch investigation of domestic violence in 2009 found flaws in Ohio laws and policies that created a culture of tolerance. Two years later, more agencies are reporting more abuse and deaths, yet reform legislation remains stalled.
Newspaper Tree is looking for a talented pool of journalists to join the team and make this unique media project a sustained force for solid investigative journalism in the border communities of El Paso, TX, Southern New Mexico, Ciudad Juarez and Northern Mexico. Newspaper Tree is a non-profit, online newspaper dedicated to investigative and community journalism.
The Investigative Reporter is responsible for producing high-quality investigative reporting in agreement with Newspaper Tree’s mission to serve the border community with relevant and meaningful journalism to encourages the public’s participation in civic life.
Qualifications: