New forum for CAR Conference ideas
Share your ideas -- and read what others are saying -- about what should be offered at the 2009 IRE Conference in Indianapolis, March 19-22. Post your suggestions for panels, classes or speakers on our Writeboard for conference ideas (Access code = 'indy09').
Precision Journalism 101
Listen to Steve Doig, Knight Chair in Journalism at Arizona State University, and Philip Meyer, recently retired Knight Chair at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, discuss the past and future of precision journalism. They share examples of how social science techniques and advances in personal computing have given journalists the tools to find stories that matter.
Show not tell
Showing the big picture around a story sometimes takes more than an interview. This is especially the case when it comes to the U.S. housing crisis, where federal data can be a useful resource for reporters.
Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data, recently updated available through the IRE-NICAR Database Library, can show, on the state and even the Census tract level, the number of subprime loans in a community – who received those loans (at least, their race, gender and ethnicity) and for how much.
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