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  "id": "1997-october-international-wrap-up",
  "slug": "1997-october-international-wrap-up",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1997-october-international-wrap-up.html",
  "year": 1997,
  "month": "October",
  "monthNum": 10,
  "headline": "International Wrap-up",
  "kicker": "Around the Globe",
  "author_name": "Brant Houston",
  "author_title": "Executive Director",
  "affiliation": "IRE",
  "summary": "IRE and NICAR are expanding computer-assisted reporting (CAR) training globally, conducting workshops across multiple countries including Mexico, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Peru, and England, while also receiving visits from international journalists interested in learning these investigative techniques.",
  "keywords": [
    "training",
    "journalism",
    "international"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Investigative Methods",
    "Journalism & Newsroom",
    "Technology"
  ],
  "technologies": [
    "Internet",
    "Email"
  ],
  "full_text": "Spurred by the wealth of information on the Internet and the sharing of techniques by their U.S. colleagues, journalists in other countries are quickly catching up on CAR.\n\nThis month we will conduct a border workshop for U.S. and Mexican journalists in Juarez. The workshop, set up by IRE's Mexico division, will be a bilingual excursion into CAR and traditional investigative techniques.\n\nIn the next six months, IRE and NICAR trainers will travel to Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Peru and England.\n\nIn Sweden and Finland, IRE and NICAR this month will train journalists not only in the basics, but also in the wise use of statistical methods. In Denmark, IRE and NICAR will hold another weeklong boot camp in March before joining Swedish journalists at their annual investigative conferences. In Germany this January, we will provide training for the staff of Stars and Stripes while also reaching out to German journalists.\n\nIn Peru, NICAR and its fellow division, IRE Mexico (Periodistas de Investigacion) will do an \"exploratory\" visit next month to Lima to make plans for seminars for Peruvian journalists that will take place next year both in Missouri and Lima.\n\nAnd in England, IRE and NICAR will help conduct an all-day training session at a new media conference in London in July. Last year trainers from the U.S. spoke and taught at the conference that combined panels and training. For the 1998 conference, organizers plan to have one day of panels and a separate day of training. We are customizing lessons and data especially for foreign journalists in order to make it as relevant as possible.\n\nMeanwhile, we continue to receive numerous inquiries and visits from other foreign journalists. A Fulbright scholar from Spain is currently doing a study on CAR here at Missouri. Earlier this year another Fulbright scholar from Venezuela attended both our basic and advanced boot camps while working with CAR pioneer James Brown at the University of Indiana in Indianapolis.\n\nAt another boot camp, we had a working journalist from Argentina who wants to set up CAR workshops there. A New Zealand journalists is currently using E-mail to arrange a tour later this year of campuses and news organizations doing CAR.\n\nAt the same time, IRE and NICAR hope to help the Center for Public Integrity in Washington D.C. in its new project to put together an international consortium of international journalists.\n\nSo, as you can see, International CAR is really moving ahead.\n\nBrant Houston can be reached at (573) 882-2042 or send e-mail to brant@ire.org",
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