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  "id": "1993-junejuly-ire-and-n-and-o-host-car-workshop-october-21-24",
  "slug": "1993-junejuly-ire-and-n-and-o-host-car-workshop-october-21-24",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1993-junejuly-ire-and-n-and-o-host-car-workshop-october-21-24.html",
  "year": 1993,
  "month": "June/July",
  "monthNum": 6,
  "headline": "IRE and N & O host CAR workshop October 21 - 24",
  "kicker": "Bits, bytes and nibbles",
  "author_name": "",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "IRE and NICAR",
  "summary": "Investigative Reporters and Editors and The News & Observer will host a four-day computer-assisted reporting conference in October 2024 in Raleigh, bringing together 50 expert journalists and 400-500 peers to demonstrate and teach skills in using computers for data gathering, analysis, and storytelling.",
  "keywords": [
    "conference",
    "journalism",
    "computers"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Journalism & Newsroom",
    "Investigative Methods",
    "Technology"
  ],
  "technologies": [
    "FoxPro",
    "Paradox",
    "CD-ROM",
    "Visual Basic",
    "Nine Track Express",
    "Windows/DOS"
  ],
  "full_text": "Investigative Reporters and Editors and The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., will show reporters and editors this fall how they can do their jobs with more precision, depth and power through computer-assisted reporting. About 50 top journalists and other experts who use computers to gather and sort information and write stories will demonstrate their skills and share their ideas with 400 - 500 peers during a four-day conference devoted exclusively to computer-assisted reporting. The conference will be Oct. 21 - 24 at the Radisson Plaza Hotel in downtown Raleigh.\n\nThe program will mix beginning and advanced sessions. Sessions will include:\n\nEquipment and software -- what's best and what to budget for\nDatabases -- what's out there, where to find them and how to negotiate for them\nGoing on-line\nIntroduction to CD-ROM and Hypertext\nAdvanced word processing techniques\nParsing, scanning, mapping\nVisual Basic and other application development tools\nSpecific story ideas to take home and do\nPolling and statistics\nIdeaware -- covering a variety of useful\nHow to set up computer-assisted reporting classes in the newsroom\n\nHands-on training classes will cover:\n\nWindows/DOS\nSpread sheets\nNineTrack Express\nCreating and manipulating databases, analyzing data and programming in FoxPro and Paradox\n\nFor more information about the conference please write or call: Investigative Reporters & Editors 100 Neff Hall UMC School of Journalism Columbia, MO 65211 (314) 882-2042.\n\nTop journalists from the News & Observer, the St. Petersburg Times, the Washington Post, New York Newsday, USA Today and U.S. News & World Report and experts from the FEC, the Poynter Institute and the National Library on Money and Politics will demonstrate their computer-assisted reporting skills at October conference",
  "provenance": {
    "extracted_by": "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6",
    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
  },
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  "html_url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1993-junejuly-ire-and-n-and-o-host-car-workshop-october-21-24.html",
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