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  "slug": "2005-novemberdecember-about-our-contributors",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2005-novemberdecember-about-our-contributors.html",
  "year": 2005,
  "month": "November/December",
  "monthNum": 11,
  "headline": "About our contributors ...",
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  "summary": "This section lists the professional backgrounds and expertise of journalism contributors, many of whom specialize in computer-assisted reporting (CAR) and data analysis across various major news organizations.",
  "keywords": [
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    "reporting",
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  "topics": [
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    "Technology"
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  "technologies": [
    "GIS"
  ],
  "full_text": "About our contributors ...\n\nAdam Bell specializes in computer-assisted reporting at The Charlotte Observer.\n\nChase Davis is a senior at the Missouri School of Journalism. Through December, he is working as a reporting intern at The Boston Globe. His Web site focusing on computer-assisted reporting is at www.car-chase.net.\n\nJohn Keefe is news director for WNYC-New York Public Radio. He is an alumnus of the 2005 Editor mini-boot camp.\n\nJohn Kelly is space editor at Florida Today and is one of the newspaper's computer-assisted reporting specialists.\n\nJohn Maines is assistant research manager/computer-assisted reporting specialist at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale. He is a 2000 alumnus of the Advanced Statistics mini-boot camp.\n\nDavid Olinger has been a reporter at The Denver Post since 1997. He has written many stories with the assistance of public databases or in-house statistical analyses: on unregulated gun trades after the Columbine High massacre, predatory foreclosure investors, child abuse deaths, neighborhood pollution and Census trends.\n\nJeff Roberts is The Denver Post's computer-assisted reporting editor. He has worked at The Post, as a reporter or editor, since 1984. He attended the IRE and NICAR Computer-Assisted Reporting Boot Camp in 1997 and has been a presenter and instructor at the annual IRE and CAR conferences.\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 boot camp alumnus.",
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