Radio and TV journalists, mark your calendars for March 23-24, when The National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting and the Medill School of Journalism will offer a special two-day workshop at Northwestern University.
The workshop will focus on the special needs of broadcast journalists when using electronic data and will include discussions, demonstrations, and hands-on training from some of the best teachers and CAR practitioners in the country. Among the topics to be covered:
How computer-assisted reporting makes for better stories. A review of some of the best work done by broadcasters. Using the Internet for breaking stories and references. Best World Wide Web sites for broadcasters. Choosing good commercial on-line services. Best on-line discussion groups. Computer-assisted reporting for investigative pieces. CD-Roms that every broadcast journalist should have. Using computer-assisted reporting for radio. Convincing your station manager of the value of computer-assisted reporting. How electronic databases turn into great stories. What's a spreadsheet and how to use it. What's a database manager and how to use it. Turning netsurfing into daily stories. The ethics of computer-assisted reporting. How to make the data visual.