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NICAR and The Associated Press offer specialized computer-assisted reporting training through workshops, bootcamps, and conferences for journalists at various locations throughout the year, with costs varying by program type and market size. Training covers data transfer, spreadsheet building, database management, and online research skills for investigative journalism.

NICAR and, where indicated, The Associated Press provide specialized training in your newsroom.

Learn to transfer data from government files into newsroom PCs. Build spreadsheets for insightful stories on the beat. Comprehend documents with database managers. Navigate the Internet and on-line databases.

Cost varies. For information, call Lisa Barnes at (573) 882-8969, or to register, call the numbers below.

Note: In the following list, "Closed" means the session is open only to members of the host organization.

Denmark, Sweden. May 26-June 6. Closed. New York, N.Y. Reuters. May 29-30. Closed. San Francisco, Cal. June 21-22 (seminar for minority journalists) San Francisco State University. Chicago, Ill. Reuters. June 26-27. Closed. Washington, D.C., Freedom Forum. July 14-15. Closed. Huntington, W.Va. Aug. 19-22. Marshall University. Closed. Washington, D.C. Sept. 11-13. Medill School of Journalism. Open. New York, N.Y. Sept. 26-27. (Broadcast workshop) Columbia University. Open.

Conferences

NICAR will offer training and seminars at the following professional conferences, including the IRE and NICAR national conferences. Costs vary. For information or to register, call Lisa Barnes at (573) 882-8969 IRE National Conference, Phoenix, Ariz., - June 12-15.

Bootcamps

Bootcamps are week-long, intensive training sessions offered at NICAR's headquarters at the Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, Mo.

As with on-the-road training, you will learn to transfer data from government files into newsroom PCs, build spreadsheets for stories on the beat, comprehend documents with database managers, and navigate the 'Net and on-line databases - but you'll be drilled all day, every day for a full week. Tuition ranges from $500-$1,000 depending on circulation or market size.

For information, call Wendy Charron at (573) 882-0684.

May 18-23. Regular Bootcamp on general computer-assisted reporting. For details, call (573) 882-0684

July 11-13. Mini Bootcamp on general computer-assisted reporting. New York University. New York, N.Y. For details, call (573) 882-0684.

Aug. 10-15. Regular Bootcamp on general computer-assisted reporting. For details, call (573) 882-0684

South of the Border

Periodistas de Investigacion (IRE-Mexico) offers computer-assisted reporting training in Spanish to journalists in Mexico and Latin America.

PI, based in Mexico City, has developed a two-day workshop that covers the basics of investigative reporting and computer-assisted reporting, and a four-to-five day bootcamp that covers CAR intensively.

The workshops can be held in almost any city with prior notice.

The courses cover using internet, spreadsheets, database managers, and general electronic records, and uses examples from the Mexican and Latin American press.

There is one bootcamp scheduled in May: Mexico City - May 14-18.

Annual membership to IRE-Mexico is $25 (or $200 pesos mexicanos) and is open to journalists or students of journalism living in Mexico and Latin America.

Instructors are Lise Olsen, managing director of IRE-Mexico, and Pedro Enrique Armendares, assistant director.

Both have more than seven years of experience in investigative reporting, Olsen at The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Virginia) and Armendares at La Jornada (in Mexico City).

Call Olsen at (52)-5-554-7613 for more information, send email to: lise@ire.org