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  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2005-may-june-about-our-contributors.html",
  "year": 2005,
  "month": "May-June",
  "monthNum": 5,
  "headline": "About our contributors",
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  "summary": "A profile of contributors to a journalism publication, highlighting reporters and editors from major newspapers who specialize in computer-assisted reporting and investigative journalism, many of whom are alumni of IRE and NICAR training programs.",
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  "full_text": "About our contributors\n\nJeff Claassen is the CAR specialist on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram investigative team. He has used data analysis to report on pollution and sports. Claassen is a 1994 alumnus of the IRE and NICAR CAR computer-assisted reporting boot camp and the 2004 advanced statistics mini-boot camp.\n\nDani Dodge recently joined The San Diego Union-Tribune as a general assignment reporter. Before that, she reported for the Ventura County Star. Dodge is a 2005 alumna of the boot camp.\n\nRon Nixon is the CAR editor for projects team at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Minn. He is the former training director for IRE and NICAR. Nixon is a 1998 alumnus of the boot camp.\n\nNatalya Shulyakovskaya is an investigative reporter for The Orange County Register who specializes in data analysis. She is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism and a former analyst in the IRE and NICAR Database Library. Shulyakovskaya is a 2000 alumna of the boot camp.\n\nHolly Hacker is the higher education reporter for The Dallas Morning News. She is a former analyst for the IRE and NICAR Database Library and a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism.\n\nMatthew Waite is a reporter for The St. Petersburg Times who specializes in computer-assisted reporting and the use of geographic information systems (GIS). Waite is a 1999 alumnus of the boot camp.\n\nMatt Williams is a government reporter for the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C. He is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, where his studies included computer-assisted and investigative reporting. His Web log, The Inside Scoop, is available at http://blog.news-record.com/scoopblog.",
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