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How Do Journalists Use Government Information?

Here is a good summary of a program sponsored by GODORT and the SLA Government Information Division at the recent Federal Depository Library conference.

New York Times reporter Scott Shane and Washington Post research editor Alice Crites educated and entertained the crowd at a joint meeting of the SLA Government Information Division (DGI) and the ALA Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT) in Arlington, VA on October 15, 2007.

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