CAR and campaigns for journalists
In July, the Knight Center's CAR and Campaigns Workshop taught 30 journalists how to pry stories from data. The workshop was so successful that the Knight Center hopes to hold the same event in summer 2007.
What is it:
Reporters learn computer-assisted reporting techniques to analyze local government budgets, uncover polluted sites, evaluate schools and measure reader’s health.
Who’s it for:
Michigan journalists new to computer-assisted reporting and those seeking to further refine such skills. The workshop teaches basic and intermediate spreadsheet skills, where to find Michigan data, how to import various data formats into spreadsheets.
Who’s teaching it:
David Poulson is a former journalist who spent a dozen years in the capital bureau for Booth Newspapers in Lansing. Currently the associate director of MSU’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, he teaches computer-assisted reporting for the university’s School of Journalism.
Sponsors: MSU School of Journalism and the MSU Knight Center for Environmental Journalism.
Optional opportunity: Bring data that you want help analyzing.
Questions: Contact Dave Poulson at 517.432.5417 or poulson@msu.edu.
