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  "id": "2003-septemberoctober-breaking-news-help",
  "slug": "2003-septemberoctober-breaking-news-help",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2003-septemberoctober-breaking-news-help.html",
  "year": 2003,
  "month": "September/October",
  "monthNum": 9,
  "headline": "Breaking news help",
  "kicker": "Bits & Bytes",
  "author_name": "",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "",
  "summary": "IRE's 'In the News' resource helps journalists quickly find databases and information sources when major disasters and news events occur, as demonstrated during the recent power blackouts across North America.",
  "keywords": [
    "databases",
    "blackouts",
    "journalism"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Investigative Methods",
    "Data & Databases",
    "Technology"
  ],
  "technologies": [
    "Internet",
    "World Wide Web"
  ],
  "full_text": "Power blackouts. Nightclub fires. Wars. Plane crashes. When disasters and other big news occur, journalists can find help in a hurry at IRE's \"In the News,\" online at www.ire.org/inthenews archive.\n\nWhen power blackouts hit New York and other major cities in the U.S. and Canada, a special \"In the News\" section listed useful databases, publications, Internet sites and other resources. For instance, the site linked to several database and spreadsheet files from the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration. Also, the IRE and NICAR Database Library has data on federal contracts that includes the company, contact information, agency, type of work performed and place where the work was performed. Certainly there were companies with federal contracts involved in the blackout.",
  "provenance": {
    "extracted_by": "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6",
    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
  },
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