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Audio Interviews from the 2009 IRE Conference

// June 12th, 2009 // No Comments » // 2009 IRE Conference, The Road

Walt Bogdanich, Investigative Desk Assistant Editor, New York Times
Audio: Walt Bogdanich, Investigative Desk Assistant Editor at The New York Times talks about the skills of journalism.

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Nerds Take Journalism

// June 11th, 2009 // No Comments » // 2009 IRE Conference, The Road

The Baltimore Marriott’s Cyber Café filled up auspiciously enough for the 9 a.m. class. By 6 p.m., though, only ten remained – the die-hards. Actually, most people peeled off within the first hour – traumatized by the screenful of code and the earful of jargon.

But if you hung in there, it got easier. Evangelists from Los Angeles, New York, and Iowa converged at the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) conference in Baltimore to initiate the willing into—as one presenter put it—“the Shaolin order” of web framework fans. (more…)