What is CAR?
From Reporting Cookbook: www.forjournalists.com/cookbook
CAR is an acronym. It stands for computer-assisted reporting, a catchall term used by journalists to talk about the electronic data collection, management, presentation and analysis techniques they use, with varying degrees of success, to make this thing we call news.
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[edit] Examples
Many examples of computer-assisted reporting are listed on the IRE web [1].
One of the most famous examples of CAR was Bill Dedman's [2] on discrimination in lending for the Atlanta Journal and the Atlanta Constitution. The series, called "The Color of Money" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1989.
[edit] References and Other Resources
[edit] Articles
New Paths to Buried Treasure; Computers are revolutionizing investigative reporting. Time Magazine. July 7, 1986.
[edit] Organizations and other documents
- The National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR) database library
- The Wikipedia on CAR.
- The NICAR-L listserv and archive
- "The New Precision Journalism" by Philip Meyer
- Danish International Center for Analytical Reporting
- Society of Professional Journalists
- Canadian Association of Journalists
- The CARR-L listserv and [http://www.louisville.edu/it/listserv/wa?S1=carr-l
