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  "id": "2006-september-october-in-the-news",
  "slug": "2006-september-october-in-the-news",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2006-september-october-in-the-news.html",
  "year": 2006,
  "month": "September-October",
  "monthNum": 9,
  "headline": "In the News",
  "kicker": "Bits & Bytes",
  "author_name": "",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "IRE and NICAR",
  "summary": "IRE and NICAR provide \"In the News\" resources to help journalists cover breaking news events by offering databases, articles, and tipsheets on relevant topics like aviation safety, terrorism, and weather disasters.",
  "keywords": [
    "journalism",
    "databases",
    "breaking"
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  "topics": [
    "Journalism & Newsroom",
    "Data & Databases",
    "Investigative Methods"
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  "technologies": [],
  "full_text": "IRE and NICAR offer \"In the News\" updates to help journalists pursue in-depth stories while covering breaking news. These include databases, news articles and tipsheets related to the latest events.\n\nWhen British authorities disrupted a terrorism plot to blow up transatlantic aircraft in August, \"In the News\" offered resources to journalists for covering aviation safety and terrorism.\n\nAnother \"In the News\" package featured storm events and federal assistance data. The storm events database has helped in the reporting of enterprise stories, such as determining the most costly weather events to hit a certain area.\n\nSee these \"In the News\" reports and more by visiting www.ire.org/inthenews_archive.",
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    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
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