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12:00 AM  Jan. 5, 2009
Computer-Assisted Reporting Bibliography
By David Shedden (More articles by this author)
Library Director, Poynter Institute

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ONLINE RESOURCES

Depth Reporting
http://depthreporting.com/
Mark Schaver

The Development of Computer-Assisted Reporting
http://com.miami.edu/car/cox00.htm
Melisma Cox, University of Miami, AEJMC Paper, 2000.

Institute for Analytic Journalism (Blog)
http://analyticjournalism.blogharbor.com/blog

IRE: Investigative Reporters and Editors
http://www.ire.org/
Founded in 1975 by a small group of investigative journalists, IRE has become a grassroots network for journalists of all kinds from around the world.

NICAR: National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting
http://www.nicar.org/
NICAR is a non-profit educational program of IRE and the Missouri School of Journalism.

NICAR Net Tour (2006)
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/

News University (Poynter/Knight Foundation)
http://www.newsu.org/
Training for Journalists. Anytime. Anywhere.

Online News and
Computer-Assisted Reporting Research Project

http://com.miami.edu/car/
Bruce Garrison, University of Miami.

Statistics Every Writer Should Know
http://www.robertniles.com/stats/
Robert Niles compiled this introduction to statistics.

The Scoop
http://www.thescoop.org/
Derek Willis' weblog on investigative and computer-assisted reporting.

TRAC: Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse
http://trac.syr.edu/
TRAC is a data gathering, research, and distribution organization associated with Syracuse University.

BOOKS

Barnett, Tracy L., ed. 100 Computer-Assisted Stories.
Columbia, MO: Investigative Reporters and Editors, 1995.

DeFleur, Margaret. Computer-Assisted Investigative Reporting.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997.

Ettema, James S. and Theodore L. Glasser.
Custodians of Conscience:
Investigative Journalism and Public Virtue.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.

Gaines, William. Investigative Reporting for Print and Broadcast.
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 1998.

Garrison, Bruce. Computer-Assisted Reporting. 2nd ed.
Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998.

----. Successful Strategies for Computer-Assisted Reporting.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996.

Houston, Brant. Computer-Assisted Reporting:
A Practical Guide.
3rd ed.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004.

Koch, Tom. Journalism for the 21st Century.
Westport: CT: Praeger, 1991.

----. The Message is the Medium: Online All the Time for Everyone.
Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996.

Meyer, Philip. The New Precision Journalism.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.

Miller, Lisa C. Power Journalism: Computer-Assisted Reporting.
Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1997.

Paul, Nora and Kathleen A. Hansen. Computer-Assisted Research:
Information Strategies and Tools for Journalists.

Columbia, MO: Investigative Reporters and Editors, 2007.

Paul, Nora, ed. When Nerds and Words Collide:
Reflections on the Development of Computer Assisted Reporting
.
St. Petersburg, FL: Poynter Institute, 1999.

Reddick, Randy and Elliot King. The Online Journalist. 3rd ed.
Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace, 1999.

Reavy, Matthew. Introduction to Computer-Assisted Reporting:
A Journalist's Guide
.
Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, 2001.

Semonche, Barbara P. "Computer-Assisted Journalism:
An Overview." in News Media Libraries.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.

Scott, Andrew, ed. IRE 101 Computer-Assisted Stories
from the IRE Morgue.

Columbia, MO: Investigative Reporters and Editors, 1993.

Sankey, Michael L., ed.
The Sourcebook of State Public Records.
4th ed.
Tempe, AZ: BRB Publications, 1998.

Ward, Jean and Kathleen A. Hansen.
Search Strategies in Mass Communications.
3rd ed.
New York: Longman, 1997.

Weinberg, Steve, ed. The Reporter's Handbook:
An Investigator's Guide to Documents and Techniques.

New York: St. Martins Press, 1996.

Wendland, Mike. Wired Journalist:
Newsroom Guide to the Internet.
3rd ed.
Washington, DC: RTNDF, 1999.


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