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Web scraping has replaced 9-track tape-reading as the critical skill in CAR today, but the challenges remain the same. Sophisticated computer-assisted reporting remains the realm of a few specialists who are increasingly being asked to use their rare skills to produce data for the Web. This panel will be a free-wheeling discussion about where the craft heads from here in the world of open-source software, difficult public records environments and shrinking or nonexistent investigative reporting staffs.