CAR in a Mac newsroom
A discussion on CARR-L and NICAR-L on the possibilities and pitfalls of doing CAR on Macs alone.

CARR Hot Sheet archive
Check out some "hot" CARR projects on business, politics and sports.

Case Studies by PEJ
Case studies in journalistic decision-making. From the Project for Excellence in Journalism.

Columbia Journalism Review Language Corner
By Evan Jenkins, consulting editor of Columbia Journalism Review. Some offenses are obviously more heinous than others, but most are things frequently done wrong that are worth doing right. The outlets where they have appeared will remain anonymous, because the point of the exercise is not to say "Gotcha!" The point (to put it modestly) is to help make the world a better-written place.

Computer Literacy in the Newsroom
In this paper, Bruce Garrison of the University of Miami suggests a model for attaining literacy in a newsroom -- literacy with computers necessary for survival.

Examples of Environmental CAR Stories
View stories or search the site.

Extra! Extra!
A Weblog of investigative articles, mostly in the US, from Investigative Reporters and Editors and Derek Willis.

IRE Resource Center
Searchable index of 12,000 investigative stories, print and broadcast, from Investigative Reporters and Editors. No full text, but you can search by category, then retrieve the full stories from IRE by fax or mail.

Mathematics Competency Test for Journalists
Phil Meyer's math quiz. Some form of it is coming to a city desk near you.

Newsroom guidelines on Internet use
Sample guidelines for a newsroom, from Power Reporting.

Newsroom Intranet Samples
Links to demo or sample newsroom Web resources. From the Special Libraries Association.

No Train No Gain
Newspaper training editors present their favorite exercises and ideas to improve and expand newsroom training. Newscoach-L, the newsroom trainers mailing list, hosted by the Freedom Forum, connects more than 200 newsroom training coordinators.

Online investigative projects
Links to articles (many of them computer-assisted), compiled by Investigative Reporters and Editors.

Power Reporting sample data files
Arts grants, coaches' salaries, drug searches -- and other sample files, for spreadsheets and databases. From Power Reporting.

Research on CAR at University of Miami
Links to readings on CAR, from Bruce Garrison at the University of Miami.

The CAR/CARR Links Page
Dean Tudor's extensive list of links in computer-assisted reporting and research. From Ryerson Polytechnic.

The Color of Money
These articles were published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 1988 and 1989, and received the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1989.

The Development of Computer-Assisted Reporting
A paper by Meli Cox, presented to the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2000. Traces the history from the 1950s to the current attempts to integrate CAR with daily reporting.

thescoop.org
Derek Willis's Weblog on good work in and about journalism.

Uplink
Newslettter on computer-assisted reporting from Investigative Reporters and Editors.

We're All Nerds Now
Columbia Journalism Review article, March/April 1999, by Joel Simon with Carol Napolitano