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When checking your mailbox isn’t enough: 3 tips for investigating local elections

Image by Justin Grimes. Used under Creative Commons License. In September, New York Times reporter Susanne Craig checked her mailbox. Checking for snail mail wasn’t abnormal for her, but what she found was: […]
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Report on the student debt crisis with our new simplified database

Student debt is quickly becoming a national crisis. But reporting on student loans and college finances has always been thorny, especially when dealing with complicated bureaucracies and patchwork data. Earlier […]
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Tips for putting a human face on your data-driven story

By Soo Rin Kim There’s nothing more boring and unappealing than seeing a story full of numbers. “But it’s a data story,” you say. “I can’t help it!” Put aside […]
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Broadcast journalists share tips for bringing numbers to life on TV

Investigative broadcast journalists across the country gathered at the 2016 CAR Conference and shared some of their secrets for bringing data to life on TV. 1. Get raw data KXAS-TV […]
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10 free tools to help you clean, analyze and visualize data

Freelance journalist Samantha Sunne and Helena Bengtsson, data projects editor for The Guardian, spent an hour at the 2016 CAR Conference going over free, open-source tools that can replace expensive […]
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How to turn data into compelling audio and video

By Maggie Angst For journalists working with audio or video, it can sometimes be challenging to find the best way to display data in story. Joe Wertz, an environment and […]
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Journalists share data projects you can try anywhere

By Jinghong Chen During a session at the 2016 CAR Conference, Kevin Crowe of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Jamie Grey of KOMU-Columbia shared tips and data projects that journalists […]
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Strategies for getting the data and documents you need

By Quint Forgey In our seemingly endless quest to obtain government documents, it’s important to recognize and alleviate the often tense relationships between reporters and public information officers. During Friday’s […]
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Humanizing data: Finding the people behind the numbers

By Maggie Angst As a data journalist, it's easy to get immersed in a database and forget the groups and individuals who are affected by the data in the story. […]
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Register for special training Wednesday at the CAR Conference

Start your 2016 CAR Conference a day early to take advantage of some special training opportunities from our partners.   Reveal/The Center for Investigative Reporting will once again offer "Techraking […]
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