AIR APPARENT Update — Uplink Archive

This journalism newsletter showcases computer-assisted reporting (CAR) initiatives across broadcast and print newsrooms, featuring award-winning journalists who use data analysis to investigate stories about paramedics, traffic violations, and campaign finance.

Don't touch that dial. With increased frequency, CAR is airing it out at broadcast stations across the country. Tune in.

In this issue, former boot camper and 1997 IRE award winner Stuart Watson details a CAR-prolific WRAL and offers tips on keeping the audience interested in the story, not the computer work. Two authors relate their search to find the compelling example to illustrate the importance of their computer analysis: former boot camper Chris Heinbaugh on paramedics lying about their criminal backgrounds and Nancy Amons on abusers of speeding and parking ticket loopholes. Plus there are reviews of stories by former boot camper Paul Adrian and Mark Lagerkvist.

Longtime CAR-user Ray Robinson of The Virginian-Pilot also checks in with a CAR-intensive campaign finance story prompted and assisted by the Virginia Public Access Project.