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What's this site about? Focussing mostly on free sources with a UK bias, this site is aimed at journalists of the student, 'citizen' and professional varieties. In these pages I will outline a few tips, tricks and sources for unearthing the following: * Contributors * Case-studies * Backgrounders/analysis * Statistics * Actuality/archives, and * Any other thing I can think of

Introduction Here follows the lecture prompts for part I of my 2008/9 lectures on Computer Assisted Reporting (CAR). For part II on sources - see here. Because of the speed at which new initiatives (and relevant research examples) come and go in this field, I'll be adding updates on this post from time to time. But to stay fully up to date with developments, keep an eye on my blog and website. Computer Assisted Research (CAR): why? * Once research was the domain of librarians and researchers - not anymore. * Rapid developments in online technologies; contributor finding, fact-checking, current awareness, multimedia. * Changes in the news landscape (fragmentation of market and 'efficiency drives'). * Journalists must now do all their own research.