Registration covers most meals, training materials, and two nights' lodging at the Doubletree Hotel. Participants are responsible for transportation costs.

Registration Fee: $70 (Includes IRE Membership) or $30 for IRE members

For more information, contact the:

Pew Center for Civic Journalism
1101 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 420
Washington, DC 20036-4303

Phone: 202-331-3200
Fax: 202-347-6440
E-mail: news@pccj.org

Visit IRE's web site: www.ire.org

Tentative Agenda

Friday, February 2, 2001

6:00 p.m. Cocktails

7:00 p.m. Dinner

WELCOME: Jan Schaffer, Executive Director, Pew Center
Brant Houston, Executive Director, IRE
KEYNOTER: Jerry Ceppos, Vice President for News, Knight Ridder Inc. (confirmed)

Saturday, February 3, 2001

8:00 - 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 10:15 a.m. NICAR CENSUS PRIMER

A skills-building session on how to make the best use of your census data.
Brant Houston, IRE Executive Director, moderator (confirmed)
Tom McGinty, NICAR (confirmed)
Ron Nixon, NICAR (confirmed)
Steve Doig, Knight Chair, Arizona State University (confirmed)

10:15 - 10:30 a.m. BREAK

10:30 - 12:00 p.m. PUTTING FACES ON THE NUMBERS

St. Paul Pioneer Press, Kate Parry, Senior Editor, "New Faces of Minnesota" (confirmed)
Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, Robin Benedick, Staff Writer, "Invisible Boundaries," Census (confirmed)
Orange County Register, Natalya Shulyakovskaya, CAR reporter, Tracking birth records, ethnic identifies (confirmed)

12:00 - 1:30 p.m. LUNCH

KEYNOTER: David Boardman, Deputy Managing Editor - Projects, The Seattle Times (confirmed)

1:30 - 3:00 p.m. GIVING YOUR DATA LEGS ONLINE: Three Case Studies

The Philadelphia Inquirer, Craig McCoy, Staff Writer. Posted eight years of crime data on the web. Can search by address, block, day, time. See how the police coded it, whether they were downgrading the crime; status of the investigation. Helped a rape victim and build race series. (confirmed)
The Herald-Dispatch, Huntington, WV, Len LaCara, Managing Editor. Coal series, posted online coal tax severance payments and demonstrated how communities were not using the taxes for economic development to replace vanishing coal industry. (confirmed)
Panelist Ð TBA

3:00 - 3:15 p.m. BREAK

3:15 - 5:00 p.m. COVERING CHILDREN'S ISSUES

Portland Press Herald, Jeannine Guttman, Editor, "On the Verge" (confirmed)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Marcia Koenig, Education Editor, School Report Guide (invited)
Casey Journalism Center for Children & Families, Beth Frerking, Executive Director, Investigative, explanatory examples + data primer (confirmed)

SATURDAY NIGHT - FREE TIME

Sunday, February 4, 2001

8:00 - 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 10:00 a.m. MAPPING YOUR COMMUNITY

Brant Houston, Executive Director, IRE
Mapping to Know -- Riverside Press Enterprise, Kamrhan Farwell, Corona editor, civic mapping Moreno Valley. (confirmed)
Mapping to Visualize -- AP MapShop, Tony Lugo, Cartographic Editor (confirmed)
NICAR mapping, Ron Nixon, IRE (confirmed)

10:00 - 10:15 a.m. BREAK

10:15 - 11:45 a.m. DATA THAT INVOLVES THE PUBLIC

Griff Palmer, San Jose Mercury News, Database Editor, A survey of interactive data (confirmed)
Jeannine Guttman, Portland Press Herald, Editor - "20 Below" web site (confirmed)
Paul Adrian, freelance investigative journalist, formerly with Texas News Network. (confirmed)

Noon -- ADJOURN