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The Crime Report, CBS News
February 9, 2016

The rise of the crime beat "news nerds"
By David J. Krajice


David Cay Johnston credits the forerunning work of two former New York Times writers: data pioneer David Burnham, who founded the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, and the late David C. Anderson, who wielded statistics and a social science sensibility to write with nuance and common sense about guns, crime and imprisonment during the 1990s, when those traits were rare.


Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
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