Finding AJC Olympic Articles

 

DEPARTMENT NAME
The biggest tip: Use the department name Olympic in your search.

EXAMPLE: f dep:olympics and traffic

By using DEP:OLYMPICS in your search, you avoid pulling up stories that mention the Olympics but aren't really about it.

LEAD PARAGRAPH
Because we write so much about the olympics, it's a good idea to limit all olympic searches to the lead paragraph of a story using ABS:

EXAMPLE: f dep:olympics and abs:traffic

This will greatly reduce the number of stories you pull up and increase the likelihood that they are actually the topic you're looking for. When you attach ABS: to a word, Documaster only looks in the first paragraph or two of all stories for that word. ABS: must be attached to each word that you want to limit to a lead paragraph.

BYLINE
If you want to focus on a particular writer, use BYL:

EXAMPLE: f byl:alma and byl:hill and coda

If a writer has a fairly unique first or last name, you can probably use just the one name. Who's Covering What? is a handy dandy service provided by News Research in case you don't know whose byline to search.

MANUALS
Documaster manuals containing many more helpful hints for Mac and Atex users are available from News Research Services.

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