{
  "id": "2000-may-using-newsroom-intranets",
  "slug": "2000-may-using-newsroom-intranets",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2000-may-using-newsroom-intranets.html",
  "year": 2000,
  "month": "May",
  "monthNum": 5,
  "headline": "Using newsroom intranets",
  "kicker": "",
  "author_name": "",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "The Record",
  "summary": "Reporters at The Record leverage voter registration records and intranet resources to access public information for investigative journalism, including voter data, salary records, contact information, and property assessment details.",
  "keywords": [
    "records",
    "reporters",
    "information"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Investigative Methods",
    "Data & Databases",
    "Government & Politics"
  ],
  "technologies": [
    "Intranet"
  ],
  "full_text": "Reporters at The Record use the intranet in a variety of ways.\n\n• Political reporter Maia Davis uses voter registration records all the time, not just for finding the names of party members in certain towns, but also to learn the home address of a person in the news.\n\n• On deadline, Scott Fallon pulled the salary and title of a teacher accused of sexual assault.\n\n• Reporter John Chadwick regularly finds unlisted phone numbers in the voter registration records.\n\n• Alex Nussbaum discovered that the mayor in one of his towns was giving out incorrect information about property assessments.",
  "provenance": {
    "extracted_by": "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6",
    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
  },
  "similar": [
    {
      "slug": "2000-may-intranet-start-up",
      "score": 0.277
    },
    {
      "slug": "2005-january-february-politics-and-elections-an-evolving-story",
      "score": 0.24
    },
    {
      "slug": "2005-january-february-post-vote-politics-payoffs",
      "score": 0.236
    },
    {
      "slug": "2000-may-intranet-essentials",
      "score": 0.232
    },
    {
      "slug": "2000-june-covering-tax-assessments",
      "score": 0.229
    }
  ],
  "html_url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2000-may-using-newsroom-intranets.html",
  "json_url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2000-may-using-newsroom-intranets.json"
}