Word: journalism
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...occurs more often than most specialists believe, partly because doctors seldom ask heart patients if they have used drugs. "There are still superb cardiologists," says Isner, "who are surprised to find out that cocaine can cause a lethal cardiac event." In a paper published last October in Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association, Isner reported on seven people, ages 20 to 37, who used cocaine shortly before suffering apparent heart attacks. Six of the subjects, including one of two who died, had no evidence of heart disease before taking cocaine...
...Providence, the Journal-Bulletin used an IBM 4381 to analyze 30,000 low- interest mortgages issued by the Rhode Island Housing and Mortgage Finance Corp. By matching mortgage issue dates with the bond issue that financed them, the machine helped expose a "secret fund" that apparently was used to give out RIHMFC loans to politically connected people like the daughter of former Governor J. Joseph Garrahy (who has since returned the loan). Following the revelations in the Journal-Bulletin, the Fleet National Bank and 24 individuals were indicted...
...Milwaukee Journal, Reporter Nina Bernstein heard that undefended indigents were being jailed for months because they could not pay $100-to-$300 fines for offenses like jaywalking. She went after the story, helped by clerks who fed records of 899 inmates through a computer. Says Bernstein: "I interviewed the judges last and presented them with the evidence, and they were stunned." The courts freed hundreds of inmates, threw out 20,000 orders for jail commitment and told the county to provide attorneys for poor defendants. The computer's statistics, says Bernstein, "made our case airtight." She adds that without...
This week Bernstein and the Milwaukee Journal as well as Makinson and Mauer of the Anchorage Daily News are being recognized for their high-tech digging ! with awards from an association called Investigative Reporters & Editors, with headquarters at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Says I.R.E. Executive Director Steve Weinberg: "The computer is revolutionizing investigative reporting. There's just no way you could do some of those calculations by hand...
...plethora of public records that local governments now store on magnetic tape for their own computers greatly widens the field for inquiring reporters. The Providence Journal-Bulletin has compiled a library of computer tapes that includes the record of every criminal defendant who has appeared in Rhode Island Superior Court in the past nine years, as well as the state's entire fiscal records for 2 1/2 years. With this data base, the paper has uncovered coercive tactics used by some canvassers in the state's mail-in electoral ballots and has revealed that a total of 6,033 arsons...