rowid,event_id,name,clean_description,location_room,start_date_clean,start_time,end_time,pre_reg_flag,paid_flag,laptop_flag,speakers_cleaned,session_type,keywords,skill_level,session_title
21,4184,Bring your investigative reporting to life using animation and illustrations,"Got court transcripts of a particular riveting moment during a trial? Need readers to understand a wonky concept that’s hard to explain in writing? This panel will show you new ways animation and illustrations can bring important moments of your investigation that happened behind closed doors or inside a computer to life. You will learn how investigative journalists and animators have used illustrations of courtrooms, nursing homes, and prison cells to “re-create” and animate crucial moments in an investigation that no one had access to. We will share how animation works and what best practices producers have developed in their newsrooms, whether or not they had access to fancy software. We will also tackle ethical pitfalls that investigative journalists have faced using animations and cover how to get started producing your own explainer video a la Vox. ",10,2019-03-08,2019-03-08 15:30:00,2019-03-08 16:30:00,0,0,0,"Ranjani Chakraborty, Vox Media; Blake Nelson, NJ Advance Media;  Hilke Schellmann, New York University (moderator)  ",1,,1,Bring your investigative reporting to life using animation and illustrations
22,4171,Building a data library in your newsroom,"Stockpiling data helps your newsroom be ready for breaking news, mine data for tips, provides context for multiple stories, offers content for visualizations, and build data literacy among reporters, editors and producers. But there are crucial questions to ask before you build your data arsenal: What databases does your newsroom need? What databases will be used for more than one story, serve as a reference library and improve with annual updates? What technology should you use to house data and what tools would make it accessible across the newsroom? What metadata and documentation should be attached? ",10,2019-03-07,2019-03-07 15:30:00,2019-03-07 16:30:00,0,0,0,"Acton Gorton, Chicago Tribune (moderator); Brant Houston, University of Illinois; Meghan Hoyer, Associated Press ",1,,1,Building a data library in your newsroom
38,4352,College sports finances: Where the money comes from and where the money goes,"The playing field is about to change in college athletics. Lawsuits and other challenges are expected to fundamentally change the way college sports -- and especially football -- are financed and played. But how to cover the ongoing story? Who will end up as winners and who will lose out? This interactive session will provide attendees a hands-on opportunity (bring your laptop!) to use the Knight Commission’s NCAA Division I Athletic and Academic Spending Database to understand the financial landscape for Division I college sports, and the differences between well-resourced athletics programs and the ones that depend on school resources. Specific tools for reporters to compare financial statements and trends over time will be revealed for the first time at the 2019 CAR conference. These resources can help lead to enlightening and impactful stories about schools' athletics programs in your region. ",10,2019-03-09,2019-03-09 14:15:00,2019-03-09 15:15:00,0,0,0,"Scott Hirko, Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics; Jodi Upton, Syracuse University ",2,,1,College sports finances: Where the money comes from and where the money goes
41,4186,"Cops, docs, and traffic stops: Criminal justice reporting through data","This panel explores the pathways of finding, capturing and using data to tell compelling and relevant criminal justice stories. The group will also share techniques for breaking through the thin blue line of secrecy, and how to avoid common pitfalls along the way. ",10,2019-03-08,2019-03-08 09:00:00,2019-03-08 10:00:00,0,0,0,"Alain Stephens, inewsource (moderator); Alysia Santo, The Marshall Project; Anita Hassan, Las Vegas Review Journal; Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times  ",1,,1,"Cops, docs, and traffic stops: Criminal justice reporting through data"
56,4179,Digging into education data: From preschool to college,"State and federal governments hold treasure troves of education data that reporters and news nerds can dig into to find great stories. Come learn how to parse the latest iteration of federal civil rights data (CRDC), which reveals resource and discipline inequities across the nation’s +96,000 schools. Find out the pros and cons of reporting with federal College Scorecard data, which tells the story of tuition and student debt across the nation’s +7,000 colleges. And hear an overview of the other great data sources that are available for education stories. ",10,2019-03-07,2019-03-07 10:15:00,2019-03-07 11:15:00,0,0,0,"Annie Waldman, ProPublica; Francisco Vara-Otra, IRE/NICAR (moderator); Andrea Fuller, The Wall Street Journal ",1,,1,Digging into education data: From preschool to college
101,4167,How and why to make your data analysis reproducible,"You understand how you processed your data. Does your editor? Your reader? You, in six months? Without a replicable approach to extracting, transforming and loading data, we are often frustrated in our efforts to share or update our work. Join us for a panel discussion of reproducible data workflows. We’ll talk about why we use standardized processes for collecting, cleaning and analyzing data, and share practices that work for us. We’ll also discuss strategies for smart human intervention (i.e. reporting, logging and documentation) in automated workflows. ",10,2019-03-07,2019-03-07 09:00:00,2019-03-07 10:00:00,0,0,0,"Ryann Grochowski Jones, ProPublica ; Jeremy Singer-Vine, Buzzfeed News (moderator); Andrew Tran, Washington Post; Hannah Cushman, DataMade ",1,,1,How and why to make your data analysis reproducible
107,4174,How it works: Version control for journalists (git/GitHub),"Branching, forking, merging and cloning. Version control can be a complicated issue, but this session for beginners will show you how newsrooms are using this technology to solve real-world problems. This session is ideal to attend before the hands-on class in GitHub. ",10,2019-03-07,2019-03-07 14:15:00,2019-03-07 15:15:00,0,0,0,"Dan Nguyen, independent journalist",1,,2,How it works: Version control for journalists (git/GitHub)
109,4166,How to collaborate across multiple newsrooms to solve big problems,"There are fewer journalists and fewer outlets, but the problems aren't getting smaller. Learn how to build a successful collaboration that's more than just a single story. ",10,2019-03-09,2019-03-09 16:45:00,2019-03-09 17:45:00,0,0,0,"Heather Bryant, Project Facet; Matt Dempsey, The Houston Chronicle; Deborah Nelson, University of Maryland; Cheryl Phillips, Stanford University (moderator) ",1,,1,How to collaborate across multiple newsrooms to solve big problems
114,4165,How to make your campaign finance dataset useful year-round,"Campaign finance data contains a wealth of data points about the local political power structure that can be used to monitor relationships, priorities and potential influences at any time of the year — not just during a campaign. Join us for a conversation about how we might meaningfully categorize and analyze political donor data in order to create a year-round backgrounding tool that reveals networks operating behind the scenes. We’ll compare and contrast the potential in this approach at the local, state and federal scale. ",10,2019-03-09,2019-03-09 09:00:00,2019-03-09 10:00:00,0,0,0,"AmyJo Brown, War Streets Media (moderator) ; Sandra Fish, independent journalist; Anu Narayanswamy, Washington Post  ",1,,1,How to make your campaign finance dataset useful year-round
119,4401,Inside the sausage factory: An inside look at government data making,"What lives behind the records request? This session will bring together experts in government data collection and use to discuss how governments collect, use and distribute data. Each of the panelists has extensive experience collecting and using data at either the local, state or federal level. With that, they will discuss why data is collected, how to track down data, what formats are used and other nuances of the governmental data making process. ",10,2019-03-09,2019-03-09 11:30:00,2019-03-09 12:30:00,0,0,0,,5,,,
122,4197,Interactive visualization for news readers' beliefs: Why and how,"Many data journalists perceive their goal to be presenting data as clearly as possible. But a single data set provides only a partial view on what's true. Readers' prior beliefs about a topic can — and should — influence what they conclude from new data. Visualizations can be used to gather and represent beliefs in ways that transform the reader's experience and your own journalistic design process. This talk will introduce you to techniques and theories for helping your readers understand, What do (and should I) believe? We'll demo a new tool that allows anyone to create a ""You draw it"" style visualization to elicit and visualize readers' predictions. ",10,2019-03-08,2019-03-08 10:15:00,2019-03-08 11:15:00,0,0,0,"Jessica Hullman, Northwestern University  & Yea-Seul Kim ",1,,,Interactive visualization for news readers' beliefs: Why and how
140,4359,Journalists of color in the newsroom meetup,Grab lunch and bring a brown bag for this networking and discussion session with other journalists of color. IRE & NICAR will provide drinks and dessert. ,10,2019-03-07,2019-03-07 12:45:00,2019-03-07 14:00:00,0,0,0,"Soo Oh, The Wall Street Journal; Disha Raychaudhuri, NJ Advance Media",4,,,Journalists of color in the newsroom meetup
159,4353,Media lawyers brown bag,"**Moderated by Maggie Mulvihill, Boston University During the media lawyers brown bag, between 12:45 and 1:45 p.m. on Friday, March 8, bring your lunch and your questions for a personal discussion with a panel of media lawyers and FOIA-savvy speakers. IRE & NICAR will provide drinks and dessert. ",10,2019-03-08,2019-03-08 12:45:00,2019-03-08 13:45:00,0,0,0,"Maggie Mulvihill, Boston University (moderator); Katie Townsend, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; Tina Salvato & Matthew Halgren, Sheppard Mullin; Adam Marshall, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press ",7,,1,Media lawyers brown bag
175,4159,Preparing for the future of disinformation and deep fakes,"Recent advances in artificial intelligence make it easy to generate believable video and audio. It seems likely that these techniques will see usage in the political arena, where the ability to cheaply generate high fidelity hoaxes might be an attractive option for state and nonstate actors seeking to manipulate discourse and voter behavior. Journalists, tasked with evaluating the quality of information, will be on the front lines confronting these new threats as they emerge. Learn what tools exist to detect potential fakes, what machine learning can and can’t do, who is fighting the potential spread of synthetic videos and what we can do about it. This session was sponsored by Knight Foundation. IRE retains control of content, including the topic and speaker selection, for all conference sessions. ",10,2019-03-07,2019-03-07 16:45:00,2019-03-07 17:45:00,0,0,0,"Paul Cheung, Knight Foundation (moderator); Christine Glancey, The Wall Street Journal; Sam Gregory, Witness; Tim Hwang, Harvard University; ",1,disinformation; fakes,3,Preparing for the future of disinformation and deep fakes
207,4149,Self care for journalists: A practical guide,"Layoffs. Climate-change disasters. Fake news. Corruption. Mass shootings. Angry sources. Vitriolic culture. Enemy of the people. Journalism has never been an easy job but in our current culture, the psychic, emotional and sometimes financial toll seems to keep mounting. So how do we thrive — or even survive — in such an atmosphere? This session will cover how to recognize signs of burnout, secondary trauma and other danger signs, as well as the research that shows what can really help, how to train your editor and how to build a support network. We'll also look at how professionals deal with constant trauma in other fields. The good news: the practices and tools you can develop to survive as a journalist – growing resilience, cultivating empathy and self-advocacy – are the same tools that can help you succeed in the rest of your life. ",10,2019-03-07,2019-03-07 11:30:00,2019-03-07 12:30:00,0,0,0,"Jodi Upton, Syracuse University (moderator) ; Linda Yaron, University of Southern California ; Kristin Hussey, independent journalist , Christine Mehta, Syracuse University ",1,,1,Self care for journalists: A practical guide
209,4175,Shooting straight: How to use gun data and documents effectively,"In this session, we'll show you how to sort out what data and documents you can gather for reporting on guns, where you're wasting your time and when you should build from the ground up. We'll discuss common pitfalls and how to accurately and fairly cover the firearms industry, gun violence and regulatory agencies. We'll also offer tips on reliable data streams, sample data on guns and tips on finding sources. ",10,2019-03-08,2019-03-08 11:30:00,2019-03-08 12:30:00,0,0,0,"Anthony Cave, KERA News; Polly Mosendz, Bloomberg News; Daniel Nass, The Trace; Cheryl W. Thompson, NPR (moderator)",1,,1,Shooting straight: How to use gun data and documents effectively
224,4143,Surveys save the day: An old tool emerges as a cutting edge,"Surveys are a familiar social science tool in newsrooms. But did you know that you can use them to break through obstacles in your investigation? In one case, powerful email programs and online surveys let reporters track down thousands of victims whose stolen identities were used to defraud the government. In another case, enterprising reporters barred from part of a foreign country used a mobile phone survey to track down human rights violations. Phil Meyer gave you the basics on newsroom surveys in ""Precision Journalism."" This panel will explain modern, practical methods and tools that can be adapted for investigative journalism. ",10,2019-03-09,2019-03-09 15:30:00,2019-03-09 16:30:00,0,0,0,"James Grimaldi, The Wall Street Journal (moderator); Chris Jackson, Ipsos Public Affairs; Carolyn Thompson, independent journalist ",1,,2,Surveys save the day: An old tool emerges as a cutting edge
235,4152,Three open-source workflow tools that your newsroom could use today,"In this session, you will learn about three recently released open-source workflow tools and how they could be immediately useful to your newsroom: - gspan.js, a JavaScript library for transcribing and annotating CSPAN captions - Vizier, a GUI for ai2HTML projects. This app makes it easy to use the New York Times' ai2HTML plugin for turning Adobe Illustrator projects into responsive web graphics - socrata2sql, a Python library for quickly slurping data out of a Socrata portal into your database of choice ",10,2019-03-09,2019-03-09 10:15:00,2019-03-09 11:15:00,0,0,0,"Andrew Briz, POLITICO (moderator); Kavya Sukumar, Hearken; Allan James Vestal, Dallas Morning News",2,,3,Three open-source workflow tools that your newsroom could use today
249,4202,When the data talks (but the people won't),Strategies for analyzing data that sources won't explain. How to get around roadblocks and convince people to talk to you. ,10,2019-03-08,2019-03-08 14:15:00,2019-03-08 15:15:00,0,0,0,"Cary Aspinwall, The Dallas Morning News; Robert Benincasa, NPR (moderator); Sarah Rafique, KXAN/NBC Austin ",1,,,When the data talks (but the people won't)