Registration Fee: $70 (includes IRE membership); $30 for IRE members.

Registration covers meals, workshop resources and two nights' lodging at the Hyatt Regency Tampa.

Participants are responsible for transportation costs.

To register: Fill out a registration form and fax to: 202-347-6440.

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

Tentative Agenda

Friday, February 22, 2002

6:00 p.m. Cocktails and Dinner

WELCOME: Jan Schaffer, Executive Director, Pew Center
Brant Houston , Executive Director, IRE
Nora Paul, Director, Institute for New Media Studies, U-Minnesota

KEYNOTER: Mark Seibel, Managing Editor/News,
The Miami Herald Election data, informing and empowering citizens

8:30 - 9:50 a.m. Data that Makes a Difference

Steve Lambert, Editor, The Eagle-Tribune, Lawrence, MA
Len LaCara, Managing Editor, The Herald-Dispatch, Huntington, WV
Barbara Walsh, Reporter, Portland (ME) Press Herald

10:00 - 11:20 a.m. Mapping: A Path to New Stories

Dan Suwyn, Managing Editor, Savannah Morning News
Ken Koehn, Public Life Team Leader, Tampa Tribune
Mark Douglas, Reporter, WFLA-TV, Tampa
Ron Nixon, Training Director, IRE

11:30 - 12:45 p.m. Giving Databases an Online Afterlife

Ted Mellnik, Database Editor, The Charlotte Observer
(Education, NASCAR)
Tom Torok - The New York Times (Election Data)
John Maines, Database Specialist, Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale

12:45 - 2:00 p.m. Lunch

KEYNOTER: Tim Franklin, Editor, Orlando Sentinel
Access to Data and the Public's Rights and Wishes

2:00 - 3:20 p.m. Interactivity: Delivering Data in New Ways

Elissa Marra, Director of National Productions, WXXI-TV, Rochester, NY, legislative redistricting
Tom Still, Associate Editor, Wisconsin State Journal, Calculating energy use
Ric Brack, Managing Editor, Journal-World, Lawrence, KS, Growth

3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Visualizing Data in New Ways

Nora Paul, moderator
>>Rocky Glisson, Tampa Bay Online's Crime Tracker - Crime: How a newspaper is making crime reports usable. http://crimetracker.tbo.com/
>>Mark Watkins, Skyscraper.org - Architecture: How city maps and structures can be visualized - Manhattan Timeformations - http://www.skyscraper.org/timeformations/intro.html
>>David Vandagriff, CORDA Technologies - Interactivity: How a company is making easy interactive graphics http://www.corda.com
>>Paul Morin, University of Minnesota, GeoWall (3D Interactive Graphics Presentation System)

SATURDAY NIGHT - FREE TIME

Sunday, February 24, 2002

8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast

Brant Houston, previews campaignfinance.org

8:30 - 10:15 a.m. Census: Telling Untold Stories

Sarah Cohen, Database Editor, The Washington Post
Steve Doig, Knight Chair, University Arizona
Ted Mellnik, Database Editor, The Charlotte Observer

10:30 - 11:15 a.m. Education: Inside-Out and Outside-In Coverage Ideas

Savannah Morning News - Dan Suwyn, Managing Editor, interacting with people
Chicago Sun-Times - Becky Beaupre, Computer Assisted Reporter, Interacting with the data, teacher proficiency (invited)