The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism has teamed up with Investigative Reporters and Editors to train business journalists in computer-assisted reporting (CAR). The workshops, titled “Be a Better Business Watchdog — CAR for Business Journalists,” will be in Atlanta on Oct. 11 and Milwaukee on Nov. 9.

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Participants will learn how to find and download online databases, use Excel spreadsheets to analyze that information and translate that analysis into business stories.

The instructor will be Jaimi Dowdell, who joined IRE as a training director in 2008. Before that, she was computer-assisted reporting editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for more than three years.

The workshops will be hosted by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in their respective cities.

Please e-mail Reynolds Center executive director Linda Austin or call 602-496-9187 with questions.

Be a Better Business Watchdog — CAR for Business Journalists” Workshop Agenda

• 8:30-9 a.m.: Continental breakfast and registration

• 9-9:10 a.m.: Introduction and welcome

• 9:10-12:40 p.m.: How to use Excel spreadsheet software

• 12:40-1:30 p.m.: Box lunch provided

• 1:30-3:30 p.m.: Where and how to access great databases with examples of business stories done from them