I'm in the Columbia Journalism Review. Sort of.

My name was one of those in an ad taken out by the California Teachers Association, announcing the winners of 2013 John Swett Awards for Media Excellence.

I won an award for my coverage of the parent-trigger movement in the San Bernardino Sun and Los Angeles Daily News.

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Investigative Reporters and Editors 2014 conference panel liveblogs

I just returned from a 10-day vacation in San Francisco, both for my father’s 70th birthday and to attend to the 2014 Investigative Reporters and Editors conference.

As the Los Angeles News Group helpfully paid for my membership and conference fee, I liveblogged the 19 (!) panels I attended. I attend IRE conferences — this is my second; I attended the 2010 conference in Las Vegas as well — for the practical advice and “how to replicate my awesome investigation” outlines and tips, not war stories, so note that the liveblogs are light on those and favor news-you-can-use (assuming you’re an investigative journalist, at least).

Here then, are the liveblogs. I’ll be updating them shortly to add any supplemental tip sheets and handouts provided by the speakers:

1. Investigations that focus on forgotten victims
2. On the beat: Education
3. 60 (data-driven) ideas in 60 minutes
4. The Kingmakers: Tracking money and influence in politics
5. Open records: New challenges to access
6. Small newsrooms, big stories: Doing data-driven investigations with limited resources
7. The data-driven story: Conceiving, launching and taking it home
8. Campus coverage: Student loans debt and aid
9. Mining documents to build your investigation
10. On the beat: Local government
11. Investigating veterans issues
12. Deep dive: Mobile-first journalism making big stories work on small screens
13. They’re watching you: Investigating the surveillance society and protecting your work from prying eyes
14. How to find stories in government contracting data
15. Campus coverage: Sexual assault and other crimes on campus
16. Investigating in a small town
17. Using Twitter data to tell stories/
18. Friendly fire: Investigating do-gooders and crowd-pleasers/
19. Open source tools for news
20. Web tools, tips and tricks for investigations%