2010 CAR conference shows off best of the year
Doug Haddix and Mark Horvit kicked off an early morning session with a slideshow of best practices that reminded me of some of the best journalism awards shows I’ve been to.
While the ‘Mining the Web for data and stories’ session next door was stuff with journalistic brainiacs looking for tips, I fell into a great story tip sheet.
In the ‘Overview of the year,’ Haddix and Horvit walked us through examples of great journalism driven by numbers. Haddix promises to share his slideshow and I’ll put that up as soon as I get it.
In the meantime, here’s a taste:
Where the money went story from the Buffalo News:
Simple story to get started reading readily available data:
Using Guidestar.org to dig into IRS 990s:
One walkaway line from this morning’s session:
“There is almost never a smoking gun,” Haddix said. “What it takes is to overlay data, to build a story that’s never been done before.”
Haddix and Horvit are both with IRE and NICAR. Haddix joined IRE as training director in September 2008.




