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2005 Meyer Award Winners

January 10th, 2006  |  by Derek  |  published in IRE, Journalism

NICAR has announced the inaugural winners of the Philip Meyer Journalism Award, “a contest to recognize the best journalism done using social science research methods.” In order, the winners are: Steve Suo, The Oregonian, for “Unnecessary Epidemic“, Chris Adams and Alison Young, Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau, for “Discharged and Dishonored” and The Scoop guest author Matthew [...]

NICAR Conference Feedback

August 12th, 2005  |  by Derek  |  published in IRE

There are a number of good suggestions in the NICAR conference evaluations (which available to any IRE member who requests them). Here are a few from this year’s event:
* Provide computer resources, especially [for] newer reporters. Maybe the ability to log into an ASP for CAR practice or work. Maybe a subscriber-subscription service [...]

IRE 2005

June 2nd, 2005  |  by Derek  |  published in IRE

I’m in Denver for the remainder of the week at the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference, so postings will be sporadic. But you can download the handout (PDF) for my talk on using Federal Election Commission expenditure data.

IRE 2004 Awards

April 1st, 2005  |  by Derek  |  published in IRE

IRE has released the list of winners and finalists for its 2004 awards. Congrats to those honored, including my former colleagues at the Center for Public Integrity.

Installing Instiki on Windows

March 21st, 2005  |  by Derek  |  published in Car Tools, IRE

At last week’s NICAR conference I showed off Instiki at a demo session, and there was a request for a handout of instructions on how to get it up and running under Windows. To install Instiki on Windows, you’ll need three things. In order, they are:
* the Ruby language
* the Instiki program (zip file)
* access [...]

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