Greensboro, N.C. News & Record staff writer Andrew Barron received a Wilber Award in April from the Religious Public Relations Council for "Sin: The Triad has a lot to say about it," the News & Record's first computer-assisted reporting project. (Published in the November, 1991 Uplink)
The package, published Oct. 13, 1991, examined the views of News & Record readers on what acts constitute sin, the relative importance of the Ten Commandments and the seven deadly sins, and other topics.
More than 1,100 readers returned the published survey, database reporter, Lex Alexander used the newsroom computer and XDB to tabulate the results, cross-referencing them by major religious denominations in the Greensboro area. He also and compared respondents' demographics with Census Summary Tape File 1A data for the coverage area to see how they differed from the population at large.
Although the tabulated responses were interesting, Barron's thoughtful interviews with clergy and lay people alike (including an entire Sunday school class) made the package worth reading. Way to go guys!