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  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2005-marchapril-oreilly-joins-ire-team.html",
  "year": 2005,
  "month": "March/April",
  "monthNum": 3,
  "headline": "O'Reilly joins IRE team",
  "kicker": "Bits & Bytes",
  "author_name": "",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "",
  "summary": "Richard O'Reilly, a veteran computer-assisted reporting expert from the Los Angeles Times, has joined IRE and NICAR as a consultant to assist with special database projects and analysis for media organizations.",
  "keywords": [
    "databases",
    "journalism",
    "analysis"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Investigative Methods",
    "Journalism & Newsroom",
    "Data & Databases"
  ],
  "technologies": [],
  "full_text": "Veteran computer-assisted reporting expert Richard O'Reilly has joined IRE and NICAR as a consultant for special database projects. O'Reilly, who worked 30 years at the Los Angeles Times, will collaborate with the IRE and NICAR database library staff on analysis for broadcast and print organizations.\n\nO'Reilly was the CAR coordinator at the Times and worked on numerous projects involving data analysis. In addition, O'Reilly has assisted IRE and NICAR by speaking and teaching at training events and conferences. He will work directly with Database Library Director Jeff Porter.",
  "provenance": {
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    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
  },
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