Power Reporting

10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Thursday, April 3, 2008

This is practical training for reporters and editors, focusing on daily and deadline reporting, not long-term projects. We'll use public records, the Web, and Excel to check facts on deadline; background people, companies and places; develop story ideas; and prepare for interviews The goal is to increase skills in integrating documents and computer-assisted reporting with the daily responsibilities of reporting and editing. You'll leave with 100 ideas and a realistic sense of how to get at them.
 

Bill Dedman is an investigative reporter for MSNBC.com. Dedman received the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting in 1989 for "The Color of Money," a series of articles in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on racial discrimination in mortgage lending. He started in journalism as a copy boy at The Chattanooga Times. He has written for The Boston Globe, The Washington Post and The New York Times. He was the first director of computer-assisted reporting for The Associated Press. He has taught investigative reporting part time at the University of Maryland, Northwestern University and Boston University. He also created the PowerReporting Web site of research tools for journalists, now maintained by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
 
 
 

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