IRE's chief trainer moves on

Ron Nixon, a veteran training director for IRE and NICAR who has trained thousands of journalists in computer-assisted reporting, is returning to newspaper work as the computer-assisted reporting editor for the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Ron Nixon, who's trained thousands of journalists across the globe in computer-assisted reporting for IRE and NICAR, is headed back to the newsroom.

After two and a half years on the road, Ron is set to go home to Minneapolis, where he will become the computer-assisted reporting editor on the Star Tribune projects team in early September.

As the training director for IRE and NICAR, Ron logged countless miles to help print and broadcast journalists do their jobs better and earned their praise. He's trained in newsrooms, national journalism association events and at events conducted by IRE and NICAR.

Ron joined IRE and NICAR as the director of the Campaign Finance Information Center (www.campaignfinance.org) and later moved into the top training post. Before joining IRE and NICAR, Ron was an investigative reporter for The Roanoke (Va.) Times with years of experience working with local, state and federal campaign finance data.

In his spare time at home, Ron kept his skills sharp by performing database and geographic information system analysis for clients of the IRE and NICAR database library.

Ron's last official day with IRE and NICAR is Aug. 29. Drop him a note at ron@ire.org and join us in wishing him well as he returns to newspaper journalism.