This month's Uplink contains offerings from throughout the country. Merritt Wallick of the Wilmington News Journal in Delaware shows how a medium-size paper can tear up the state using computer-assisted reporting on property tax records.
Jim Mosley of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch talks about how his newspaper is conducting one the most ambitious CAR training programs in the country, using both inhouse and NICAR resources.
Andrew Lehren, a new researcher at NICAR (fresh from the Philadelphia Business Journal), reviews the uses of a Federal Aviation Administration database. In one case, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, gets a hit by the significant omissions in the database, while in another, The Seattle Times, scores a nice story using details from the database.
Altogether, it shows the continuing emergence of CAR in journalism as a sure path to good stories.