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  "id": "1995-march-uplink-update",
  "slug": "1995-march-uplink-update",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1995-march-uplink-update.html",
  "year": 1995,
  "month": "March",
  "monthNum": 3,
  "headline": "Uplink update",
  "kicker": "",
  "author_name": "",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "",
  "summary": "Uplink's new monthly column features guidance from journalism experts on using internet resources and public records for investigative reporting, including examples of award-winning investigations into natural disasters, crime statistics, elevator safety, and pesticide enforcement.",
  "keywords": [
    "investigation",
    "records",
    "reporting"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Investigative Methods",
    "Data & Databases",
    "Journalism & Newsroom"
  ],
  "technologies": [
    "Internet"
  ],
  "full_text": "This month's Uplink features a new monthly column that will help reporters use the Internet. Nora Paul, a former Miami Herald librarian now at the Poynter Institute, tells where to go online when your community is hit by a natural disaster.\n\nNICAR's Gwen Carleton and David Royse tell how to mine crime statistics, and warn about the dangers in the data. David Armstrong of the Boston Globe recounts how he explored state inspection records for elevators and escalators. He worked with a reporting team that found lax enforcement, loafing inspectors and shoddy machinery. The series brought the demotion of state officials, and won a George Polk award this year for metro reporting. Michael Fabey tells how he examined state pesticide enforcement records and uncovered a regulatory system gone wrong. His work recently won a Scripps-Howard Meeman bronze medallion for environmental journalism.",
  "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/1995-march-uplink-update.html",
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