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  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2007-marchapril-ire-spring-training.html",
  "year": 2007,
  "month": "March/April",
  "monthNum": 3,
  "headline": "IRE spring training",
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  "affiliation": "IRE and NICAR",
  "summary": "IRE is offering multiple computer-assisted reporting (CAR) training events across the country, including Watchdog Workshops in Syracuse and Oklahoma City, a Money in Politics workshop in Los Angeles, and an intensive CAR Boot Camp in Columbia, Missouri.",
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  "topics": [
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    "Technology"
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  "technologies": [
    "Excel"
  ],
  "full_text": "A variety of IRE's upcoming on-the-road training events will feature CAR sessions.\n\nThe Watchdog Journalism series (www.ire.org/training/watchdogjournalism.html) designed for reporters and editors at small or mid-sized papers or bureaus of larger papers, will feature CAR training at several events. You must register for the Watchdog Workshop to attend the CAR sessions; space is limited.\n\nBetter Watchdog Workshop, April 14-15, in Syracuse, N.Y. (www.ire.org/training/betterwatchdog/Syracuse07.html) Beginning Excel.\n\nBetter Watchdog Workshop, April 28-29, in Oklahoma City. (www.ire.org/training/betterwatchdog/Oklahoma07.html) Beginning Excel.\n\nIRE will conduct a Money in Politics workshop (www.knightnewmediacenter.org/seminars/archives/election_08_covering_politics_in_cyberspace) April 20-21 in Los Angeles in conjunction with the Knight New Media Center seminar on politics in cyberspace.\n\nCAR Boot Camp, May 13-18, in Columbia, Mo. (www.ire.org/training/bootcamps/may2007.html) offers intensive training in spreadsheets, databases and how to use CAR in your news organization.",
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