For surfers of the Internet, we have good news. The National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting and Investigative Reporters and Editors have entered the online world.
Last month we set up two listservs (discussion group areas) through the University of Missouri. One listserv is NICAR-L and the other is IRE-L. You can join the NICAR listserv by sending a message to listserv@mizzoul.missouri.edu. In the text of the message type: subscribe nicar-1 your name. For example, Jackie Smith would type: subscribe nicar-1 jackie smith. Do exactly the same for IRE, except type ire-l. Once you do that, every message sent to the listserv will land in your e-mail box.
In the NICAR listserv we plan to have discussions on computer-assisted reporting and on IRE on investigative reporting, computer and non-computer related.
In the coming months, we hope you will see other NICAR and IRE resources put online.