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| Al Tompkins |
The title of this year's
Poynter Institute and
Investigative Reporters and Editors Workshop, scheduled for Sept. 16-20 in St. Petersburg, Fla., is "Investigating Local Government on a Shoestring Budget." It will be "an intensive, practical hands-on workshop to teach journalists how
to investigate and report on their local governments ... especially focused toward newsrooms that do not have big budgets or
staffs to produce exhaustive projects," the Poynter Institute says.
Participants will get hands-on training in how to use spreadsheets and databases, how to use open-government laws and hidden documents, 10 tools to tell the story beyond newspaper pages or the
TV screen, and ethical decision-making. The workshop will also focus on examining stories of significance with
the help of the journalists who did them, closely examining the
records, the methods, and the results that the best
investigations produce, and creating solid story ideas.
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| Mark Horvit |
Workshop faculty include: Al Tompkins, senior faculty broadcast and online at Poynter; Mark Horvit, executive director of IRE; Jaimi Dowdell, training director for IRE; John Maines, computer-assisted reporting editor at the
South Florida Sun-Sentinel; Kris Hundley, investigative reporter at the
Tampa Bay Times; and Nancy Amons, investigative reporter at
WSMV in Nashville. More faculty members are expected to be added.
Cost of the workshop is $300, very low for five days of programming thanks to a grant from the
Buck Foundation. The deadline to apply is Aug. 12. For more information or to apply
click here.
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