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  "id": "1994-may-arch-investigations-june-16-19-1994",
  "slug": "1994-may-arch-investigations-june-16-19-1994",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1994-may-arch-investigations-june-16-19-1994.html",
  "year": 1994,
  "month": "May",
  "monthNum": 5,
  "headline": "Arch Investigations June 16-19, 1994",
  "kicker": "",
  "author_name": "",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "IRE and NICAR",
  "summary": "The IRE/NICAR conference in St. Louis on June 16, 1994 offers an optional day focused on computer-assisted reporting, featuring sessions on online research, databases, spreadsheets, and specialized topics like government records, environmental data, and mapping software.",
  "keywords": [
    "reporting",
    "database",
    "computer"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Journalism & Newsroom",
    "Investigative Methods",
    "Technology"
  ],
  "technologies": [
    "modem/BBS",
    "Internet",
    "spreadsheet",
    "GIS"
  ],
  "full_text": "Arch Investigations June 16-19, 1994\n\nHere's a look at the developing line-up for the optional day, June 16, at the St. Louis National IRE conference. This day we will focus on computer-assisted reporting. For more information on the conference, please call IRE/NICAR headquarters at (314) 882-2042.\n\nThursday Optional day\n8-8:30 Online on the beat: 30 ideas in 30 minutes\nBill Dedman, Associated Press\n9:20-9:50 Data analysis on the beat: 30 ideas in 30 minutes\nShawn McIntosh, Dallas Morning News\n\n8:40-9:50 Specialized session: Business\nRob Wells, Associated Press\nPenny Loeb, U.S. News & World Report\nPrimer on online searching: Power up, modem in, log on. Everything you need to know to get started\nBeth Marchak, Cleveland Plain Dealer\n10-11:10 Creating and recycling databases: When to use a database and which ones to keep available for use on deadline\nJeff Kummer, St. Paul Pioneer Press\nTeresa Leonard, Raleigh News & Observer\nJames Derk, Evansville Courier\nGovernment and social sciences\nDan Browning, St. Paul Pioneer Press\nRich Robertson, Arizona Republic\nShawn McIntosh, Dallas Morning News\nThe mystery and power of Internet\nDan Woods, Raleigh News & Observer\nDan Gillmor, Detroit Free Press\n11:20-12:30 Using spreadsheets and national tabular data to show where your town or state ranks\nWilliam Casey, Washington Post\nRich Gordon, Miami Herald\nChris Schmitt, San Jose Mercury News\n\nEnvironment on computer\nDave Davis, Plain Dealer\nJane Kay, San Francisco Examiner\nWendell Cochran, USA Today\nOnline on the cheap\nNora Paul, Poynter Institute for Media Studies\nMike Berens, Columbus Dispatch\n1-2 Brown Bag lunch: Attribution and accuracy on the information highway\nNora Paul, Poynter Institute for Media Studies, moderator\n2:10-3:20 Deadline online: Using bulletin boards to find eyewitnesses and experts and profiling people\nDeborah Crowe, Alameda Newspaper Group\nMatt Reavy, NICAR\nMapping software on deadline: How to plot census, crime and gerrymandering information\nSuwan Brown, St. Louis Post-Dispatch\nJennifer LaFleur, NICAR\n\nMedicine and science\nBill Allen, St. Louis Post-Dispatch\nPaul Overberg, USA Today\nBeth Marchak, Plain Dealer\n3:30-4:40\n\nAccess to federal, state and local online records: Success stories and pending battles\nSandra Scott, Missouri School of Journalism\nMike Casey, Dayton Daily News\nStatistics can be your friend: Five statistical tools you need to know\nJon Schmid Sotomayor, Raleigh News & Observer\nPhil Meyer, University of North Carolina\nThe electronic newsroom\nCorky Johnson and Karl Dsvoog, WPCO-TV, Cincinnati\nMark Nichols, Indianapolis Star\nNeil Reisner, Bergen Record\n7:30-9 p.m. Getting Started\nNICAR staff",
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