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  "slug": "1992-october-an-electronic-forum-on-computers-in-journalism-debuts",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1992-october-an-electronic-forum-on-computers-in-journalism-debuts.html",
  "year": 1992,
  "month": "October",
  "monthNum": 10,
  "headline": "An electronic forum on computers in journalism debuts",
  "kicker": "Bits, bytes and nibbles",
  "author_name": "Elliot Parker",
  "author_title": "curator of CARR-L",
  "affiliation": "University of Louisville / Central Michigan University",
  "summary": "The University of Louisville has created CARR-L, an online forum for journalists and journalism educators to discuss computer use in reporting, covering topics from database searching to investigative reporting techniques.",
  "keywords": [
    "forum",
    "journalists",
    "technology"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Journalism & Newsroom",
    "Technology",
    "Investigative Methods"
  ],
  "technologies": [
    "Internet"
  ],
  "full_text": "The University of Louisville in Kentucky has set up an online forum for working journalists and journalism educators, news librarians and researchers.\n\nComputer-Assisted Research and Reporting List, or CARR-L, as this corner of cyberspace is called, focuses on the use of computers in journalism.\n\nTopics range from text processing and graphics to online database searching, computer communications and investigative reporting, according to Elliot Parker, one of CARR-L's curators.\n\nThe nature of the exchange depends on the users, but here are a few topics which have passed through CARR-L recently: Where do we get state-level information in electronic form and how do we know what is available?; is there a net source for backgrounding information on hurricanes?; software reviews, job announcements.\n\nFor more information on CARR-L, contact Elliot Parker, Department of Journalism, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Mich., 48859, (517) 774-3196.",
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    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
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