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The 1998 IRE National Conference in New Orleans will focus on investigative journalism and computer-assisted reporting, while the organization updates its resources including NICAR listservs and campaign finance databases covering nine states.

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IRE National Conference 1998

The heat may be rising off of Bourbon Street, but inside the Fairmont Hotel will be the cool musings of investigative journalists discussing their craft.

It's not too soon to start making plans to get to The Big Easy for the 1998 Investigative Reporter & Editors National Conference, scheduled for June 4-7.

Visit IRE's Web site at www.ire.org/resources/conferences/neworleans for information and a registration form. June 4 has been set aside as the day to focus on computer-assisted reporting.

NICAR Net

Talk may be cheap, but it's always valuable on the IRE and NICAR listservs. A wealth of topical discussion awaits you.

To subscribe to IRE-L or NICAR-L, send an email to listproc@lists.missouri.edu

In the body of the message, type: subscribe NICAR-L<your name> subscribe IRE-L<your name>

Also, check out the IRE-L and NICAR-L mailing list archives on our website at http://www.ire.org and http://www.nicar.org. You can see posts to both lists organized by thread, author and date. The list archives are available in *.html or plain text format.

Moving on

David Milliron has moved from Gannett News Service to become database editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in Atlanta, Ga. If you have recently switched locales, let us know of your whereabouts.

Campaign Finance

Jack Dolan, director of the Campaign Finance Information Center, continues to update the CFIC Web site at http://www.campaignfinance.org.

Campaign contribution data from three more states has now been added. Data is now available from nine states - Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. The data can be easily downloaded, and comparisons can be made by joining tables between the state files. CFIC hopes to enable such comparisons to be made online once common fields are established and standardized. CFIC's overriding goal is to acquire campaign contribution data from as many states as possible.