A workshop on interactivity, access and connections sponsored by the Pew Center for Civic Journalism, IRE and the Institute for New Media Studies, University of Minnesota
Tapping New Data Territories
February 22-24, 2002
Tampa, FL
Learn from respected journalists how to:
- Build Census skills.
- Report stories that make a difference.
- Map your community in new ways.
- Give data an online afterlife.
- Make data interactive.
- Visualize data in new ways.
Sign up today. Spaces are limited.
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.
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
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-MinnesotaKEYNOTER: Mark Seibel, Managing Editor/News,
The Miami Herald Election data, informing and empowering citizens
Saturday, February 23, 2002
8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
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)
11:15 – Noon Open-Mike Roundtable
Noon Adjourn