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  "id": "2001-marchapril-everday-methods",
  "slug": "2001-marchapril-everday-methods",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2001-marchapril-everday-methods.html",
  "year": 2001,
  "month": "March/April",
  "monthNum": 3,
  "headline": "Everday methods",
  "kicker": "FIRST VENTURE",
  "author_name": "Joe Ellis",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "KMOL-TV, San Antonio",
  "summary": "A journalist reflects on attending a computer-assisted reporting bootcamp that challenged their mental capacity, and describes how CAR techniques have since become an integral part of their daily reporting practice.",
  "keywords": [
    "bootcamp",
    "reporting",
    "records"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Investigative Methods"
  ],
  "technologies": [],
  "full_text": "I thought I'd be eager to get back to my computer immediately after bootcamp, but that was before bootcamp. I remember my brain feeling like it had run a week's worth of PT. And it had...following the cadence of Sgt. Tom McGinty and company for six days, 10 hours a day. It showed me just how out of shape my mind really was.\n\nI took what I felt was a well-deserved weekend away from my thoughts of work, news and computer-assisted reporting. But it wasn't long before I was finding ways to use my newfound skill.\n\nSince then, CAR has become an everyday method for me.\n\nWhen I'm looking for information, among the first things I ask the \"Public Interference Official\" is \"how are these records kept?\" \"In what form are they",
  "provenance": {
    "extracted_by": "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6",
    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
  },
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  "html_url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2001-marchapril-everday-methods.html",
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