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  "id": "1997-june-uplink-update",
  "slug": "1997-june-uplink-update",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1997-june-uplink-update.html",
  "year": 1997,
  "month": "June",
  "monthNum": 6,
  "headline": "Uplink Update",
  "kicker": "Summer Session",
  "author_name": "",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "IRE and NICAR",
  "summary": "This journalism newsletter features computer-assisted reporting (CAR) techniques used by various news organizations to investigate topics including public housing, FDA procedures, day-care centers, school rankings, and FCC bid rigging.",
  "keywords": [
    "investigation",
    "reporting",
    "data"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Investigative Methods",
    "Journalism & Newsroom"
  ],
  "technologies": [
    "Internet"
  ],
  "full_text": "This month's Uplink offers a smorgasbord of CAR offerings to get your summer started off right. Michael J. Himowitz tells how The Baltimore Sun discovered \"dreams, debts and demolitions\" in the city's public housing. Tom Gaumer from The Cleveland Plain Dealer tells how he investigated the FDA's experiment procedures and found alarming results. Ames Alexander of The Charlotte Observer teaches the ABCs of day-care investigations. Sarah Cohen uses her statistics column to share how the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette tackled the tricky, but important job of ranking area schools. Bob Sullivan of MSNBC also tells about his first computer-assisted reporting project, which uncovered bid rigging at the FCC. And Nora Paul gives the must haves of Internet sites in her monthly Internet column.",
  "provenance": {
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    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
  },
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