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  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1996-october-math-for-journalists-resources.html",
  "year": 1996,
  "month": "October",
  "monthNum": 10,
  "headline": "Math for journalists resources",
  "kicker": "",
  "author_name": "Scott Thurm",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "San Jose Mercury News",
  "summary": "A curated list of essential books for journalists seeking to improve their numerical literacy and data reporting skills, featuring works by mathematicians and journalism experts on handling statistics and numbers in news stories.",
  "keywords": [
    "mathematics",
    "journalism",
    "numeracy"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Journalism & Newsroom"
  ],
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  "full_text": "Math for journalists resources\n\nFor more information on how to successfully use numbers in news stories, consult: John Allen Paulos, \"Innumeracy,\" Vintage Books, 1988 John Allen Paulos, \"A Mathematician Reads the Newspapers,\" Basic Books, 1995 Victor Cohn, \"News and Numbers,\" Iowa State University Press, 1989 Philip Meyer, \"The New Precision Journalism,\" Indiana university Press, 1991",
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