From surfing the Internet for data to number crunching in spreadsheets and database managers, Computer-Assisted Reporting is the most practical introduction to the data analysis skills that journalists need to succeed in today’s newsrooms. This edition expands the highly-regarded basic skills instruction and offers more advice on how to write better news stories. Brant Houston’s extensive newsroom and teaching experience make this text easy to use as a core text or as a supplement in an introductory news reporting and writing course.
BRANT HOUSTON is Executive Director of Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. and the National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting and associate professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He is also a co-author of The Investigative Reporter's Handbook (Bedford St. Martin's 2002) and was database editor at the Hartford Courant and an investigative reporter at the Kansas City Star.