Big news in NICAR world: Brant Houston, managing director of NICAR, has been named IRE executive director. As executive director, Brant hopes to enhance the connection between IRE and NICAR programs.
Now, on to this month's issue. Here's what's in store: many students have turned in their cap and gown for computers and gigabytes. Others have produced hard-hitting CAR stories before the band began playing "Pomp and Circumstance." This issue features some of those recent and soon-to-be graduates. Naomi Aoki is helping The Virginia-Pilot take a bite out of surface-level crime coverage, Natalya Shulyakovskaya of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch explains how she used CAR for everything from features to investigations. But you don't have to have a diploma to do data. Students at the University of Nebraska and University of Maryland are proving that. And Stan Dorsey, a NICAR staffer and a soon-to-be Missouri graduate, looks at sports and CAR.