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  "id": "1995-february-uplink-update",
  "slug": "1995-february-uplink-update",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1995-february-uplink-update.html",
  "year": 1995,
  "month": "February",
  "monthNum": 2,
  "headline": "Uplink update",
  "kicker": "",
  "author_name": "",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "Uplink",
  "summary": "This month's Uplink newsletter features several examples of computer-assisted reporting (CAR) in journalism, including case studies from newspapers in Delaware, St. Louis, Cleveland, and Seattle that demonstrate how CAR is becoming essential for uncovering significant stories.",
  "keywords": [
    "reporting",
    "database",
    "journalism"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Investigative Methods",
    "Data & Databases",
    "Journalism & Newsroom"
  ],
  "technologies": [],
  "full_text": "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.\n\nJim 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.\n\nAndrew 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.\n\nAltogether, it shows the continuing emergence of CAR in journalism as a sure path to good stories.",
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    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
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