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By Karim Lahlou Journalists Julie Tate, The Washington Post, Rick Yarborough, NBC Washington, shared tips on how to locate sources using a combination of online and offline resources. Whether you’re looking for a source’s location, criminal history, or election contributions, the following list they’ve compiled is more than enough to get started. Get the link…

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By Irina Ivanova Why Medical Data Matters from IRE/NICAR on Vimeo.   Veteran investigative journalists Peter Eisler, Dan Keating and Charles Ornstein blitzed through a slew of national databases in “Wading through the sea of data on hospitals, doctors, medicine and more” Friday morning. After the session, Eisler and Ornstein talked about their journey to covering…

By Rebecca Lai Since the dawn of Wikileaks, the public has come to expect original documents. Often, however, government agencies refuse to cooperate and prevent reporters from getting their hands on original records. Even though the Freedom of Information Act and other statutes provide journalists with tools to negotiate, these laws still have flaws and…

By Tyler Fisher Many NICAR sessions feature journalists telling other journalists how they can improve their lives and work. On Thursday, Ben Balter from GitHub made a pitch to journalists from the outside: Become familiar with git and GitHub and you’ll be able to make better products on the web. Balter said his goal was…

By Anna Boiko-Weyrauch Robots were everywhere at the “Cooking with Hardware” conference session, taught by two members of “Team Blinky,” WNYC’s John Keefe and Liza Stark of Parson The New School for Design and the Institute of Play.   The audience was greeted with Daft Punk and a sensor-laden welcome mat that caused the screen at the…