Bits, Bytes and Barks
CAR training lands investigative job
Paul Adrian has been hired as a full-time investigative reporter at WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio, a CBS affiliate. He starts April 1. "I think my computer skills caught their attention," Adrian said. The station is investing $10,000 in computer equipment for the investigative team, Adrian said. He will be working with a full-time investigative producer on longer term projects.
Adrian, who has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin, leaves WAVE-TV in Louisville, Ky., where he was a general assignment reporter for three years.
Writers discussion group
Writer-L, a listserv tailored for the discussion of feature writing, explanatory journalism, and literary journalism, has found a new electronic home at nicar.org. Topics include writing techniques, markets, jobs, privacy law, criticisms of stories and media, and other related issues. The list is moderated by Jon Franklin, coordinator of the University of Oregon's creative nonfiction program.
Subscribers are required to submit short professional bios that are made available to the membership. The purpose of the bio is not to exclude anybody but to know who the subscribers are.
To subscribe, send the following information to jonfrank@nicar.org. Follow the format carefully, including the X's and skipping the lines between paragraphs. Limit the bio to five, 65-character lines. Your completed subscription message will look something like:
subscribe WRITER-L joeblow@pdq.com
XXXBlow, JoeXXX XXXjoeblow@pdq.comXXX
XXXReporter/free-lancer for 30 years. 4 books, most recent WHO AMI AND WHY DO CARE? Credits in NYT mag, Vogue. Specialize in weird stuff. BA Syracuse; MA Podunk U.XXX
Franklin asks for a voluntary donation of $5 for students and $20 for others. Make checks payable to Jon Franklin and send to: P.O. Box 929, Philomath, Ore., 97370.
Check out IRE conference on the Web
Planning is underway for the June 13-16 IRE/NICAR National Conference in Providence. Check out the Providence Journal's National Conference Homepage at: http://www.projo.com/ire/. You'll find dates, prices, hotel numbers, information on the shape of the program so far and fun things to do in New England.
Keep up with NICAR on-line
Subscribe to our listserv and join in as reporters talk about how to do the job better. E-mail to LISTSERV@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU. In the message, on the first line, write: subscribe NICAR-L your name. To join IRE on the Internet, the instructions are the same except, on first line, write: subscribe ire-l your name.
IRE/NICAR is also accessible through CompuServe's Journalism Forum. Go to the JForum, Section 19. Also look into the IRE/NICAR files in Library 19.