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  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2000-may-tipsheets-2.html",
  "year": 2000,
  "month": "May",
  "monthNum": 5,
  "headline": "Tipsheets",
  "kicker": "",
  "author_name": "",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "",
  "summary": "Three tipsheets from journalism resources offer guidance on deadline reporting techniques, including backgrounding sources, using computer-assisted reporting (CAR) databases for story ideas, and tips for quickly incorporating CAR into breaking news coverage.",
  "keywords": [
    "deadline",
    "reporting",
    "databases"
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  "topics": [
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    "Journalism & Newsroom"
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  "full_text": "\"Backgrounding the individual on deadline,\" (tipsheet #1083) by Don Ray, of Exclusive News Group, offers ten steps to backgrounding on deadline and a comprehensive list of resources that are essential to a functioning newsroom.\n\n\"CAR on Deadline,\" by Neil Reisner, of The Miami Herald, (tipsheet #908) provides a list of databases that could be turned into interesting stories.\n\n\"Quick CAR,\" by Janet Roberts of The St. Paul Pioneer Press, (tipsheet #909) provides some keys to success for using CAR to enhance deadline stories. To order, call the IRE Resource Center at (573) 882-3364.",
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    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
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