IRE and NICAR will hold several two-day workshops on working with Census data, with the first being held in Arizona April 7-9. The Arizona workshop, which will be held at Arizona State University in Tempe, will have Steve Doig, of ASU, and Paul Overberg, of USA Today, as lead instructors. The second workshop will be held at the Missouri School of Journalism, in Columbia, August 4-6. The third workshop will be at the University of Maryland in December, but a specific date had not been set as of publication.
These Census workshops will be the first in a series and cover getting ready for the Census, what changes there will be from 1990 data, and ideas on the first stories to do and how to do them.
The initial fee for the workshops will be $75 for two days if you are an IRE member. Membership will be offered at a discounted $40 for a total of $115 if you are not an IRE member. (IRE membership fee will go up to $50 in March.)
More information is available on the IRE and NICAR Web site, www.ire.org