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This journalism newsletter discusses upcoming election coverage resources through an IRE and NICAR conference focused on campaign contributions and polling analysis, while also featuring investigative techniques for workplace safety stories using OSHA databases and supplementary sources.

It's beginning to look a lot like election season.

Yes, we're getting closer to the New Hampshire presidential primaries.

A January conference by IRE and NICAR will help you delve into campaign contributions, analyze polls and dig deeper for stories. See Page 3 for more information.

Meanwhile, this issue of Uplink is designed to help you cover what goes on in the office and factory.

The stories look back at the seminal series by the Dayton Daily News, and jump to today, where reporters continue to mine the Occupational Health and Safety Administration's database. Journalists recount how to go beyond OSHA records, using court records, state worker's compensation data and more.

By popular demand, this issue also recaptures highlights on the NICAR listserv, where reporters debated selling data directly to readers. And we include an update on the SEC, which may change its free Internet site popular with reporters.