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  "id": "1995-april-go-to-ires-annual-conference",
  "slug": "1995-april-go-to-ires-annual-conference",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1995-april-go-to-ires-annual-conference.html",
  "year": 1995,
  "month": "April",
  "monthNum": 4,
  "headline": "Go to IRE's annual conference",
  "kicker": "",
  "author_name": "Rosemary Armao",
  "author_title": "executive director",
  "affiliation": "IRE",
  "summary": "The Investigative Reporters and Editors annual conference in Miami (June 8-11) offers intensive computer-assisted reporting training across three tracks covering introductory skills, beat-specific techniques, and specialized skills like data visualization and internet research.",
  "keywords": [
    "conference",
    "training",
    "reporting"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Investigative Methods",
    "Journalism & Newsroom",
    "Technology"
  ],
  "technologies": [
    "Internet",
    "spreadsheet",
    "modem/BBS"
  ],
  "full_text": "Four days in Florida? Sounds like a junket. But in June? Investigative Reporters and Editors' annual conference at the Intercontinental Hotel in Miami June 8-11 will include panels, discussions and hands-on computer-assisted reporting training at all levels. There won the time for little umbrella drinks. We're offering intense training on the conference's Optional Day, Thursday, June 8: The program is divided into three tracks that will run simultaneously. Each track contains five sessions. The rundown:\n\nAn introduction to computer-assisted reporting\n\n1. Quick-hit story ideas for every section of the paper.\n2. Getting started: Where to get training, what equipment to buy, what software to consider, getting editors interested.\n3. Power Up and Plug In: On-line bulletin boards, government databases not covered in beat sessions.\n4. Introduction to Spreadsheets.\n5. Introduction to Databases.\n\nComputer-assisted reporting on the beat\n\n1. Crime: Cyber sources for crime reporters, plus how to track gun violence in your community and how to find out how bad crime really is.\n2. Education: Cyber sources for school reporters, plus how to rate your school district's performance.\n3. City Hall: Cyber sources for city hall reporters, plus how to ferret out zoning abuses.\n4. Courts: Cyber sources for legal reporters, plus how to rate the performance of judges.\n5. Politics: Cyber sources for political reporters, plus how to use the Federal Election Commission database to track campaign contributions.\n\nSpecial skills\n\n1. Introduction to Internet.\n2. Florida's open government: Electronic records available to journalists.\n3. Polling: How to write survey questions and build on what pollsters provide.\n4. Visualizing information: Mapping, charting, investigative graphics.\n5. Access: Electronic data - What you're entitled to and how to get it.\n\nIn addition, Philip Meyer, author of The New Precision Journalism, will teach a session for those with advanced skills.\n\nInternet demo room\n\nMultiple hookups to the Internet in a room staffed with experts. Find out how to better use this exciting research and communications tool. For information and to register, call IRE at (314) 882-2042.",
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    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
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