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How two Pulitzer finalists used public data and the Internet to connect with readers

December 25, 2018April 25, 2011

The reporters used reader-friendly multimedia presentations to make the data come alive.

Categories Journalism, Open Records, Students Tags Computer-Assisted Reporting, Journalism, Las Vegas Sun, Poynter, Pulitzer Prize

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