For more than a decade, Uplink has brought you inspiring tales, technical how-to's, story ideas, tips for finding information and more. The newsletter has chronicled the evolving realm of computer-assisted reporting and offered support and guidance to hundreds of journalists worldwide.
Now we'd like to do more.
Starting with this issue, we will publish Uplink on a bi-monthly schedule (every other month). In the next issue, you'll see even more content, with at least 28 pages and supplementary materials on the Web.
Each issue will have a central theme – i.e. education in one issue, transportation in another – giving journalists not only the inspiring tales, but also the means to pull them off in their own community. There will be sidebars listing databases and where to find them; Web sites and phone numbers to sources; and listings of other stories on the same or similar topics.
In addition to the theme stories, each issue will include regular features such as First Ventures, Mapping how-to's and Tech Tips.
Benefits to the bi-monthly schedule are to provide greater time and space to develop each theme and to be able to coordinate more with The IRE Journal.
Our plan includes design improvements and to make available to subscribers an online, searchable archive of past articles. Subscribers will also receive news flashes via e-mail on developments in the world of data and hot new CAR stories available online.
MaryJo Sylwester can be reached by e-mail at maryjo@nicar.org