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Investigative Reporting Resources
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Pat Stith's pointers on investigative reporting Don Ray on :  *  Getting the most out of land records *  25 questions to ask before trashing the A wire     (localizing national stories) *  Why anybody talks to journalist *  Scoring the perfect interview Lou Rose's Truths About Investigative Reporting Jeff South on localizing data from federal agencies Joel Kaplan on investigating from the beat , 20 records to look for. Laura Frank's tips on keeping the big project going Rick Desloge has 7 tips on covering bankruptcy court Eric Nalder on *   Loosening Lips: The Art of the Interview *   Breaking and Entering: Dissecting an Organization *   A 12-step Program for Using Public Disclosure Laws Five Easy Pieces -- an SEC starter kit & other tips for checking out companies How to Conduct A Historical Investigation Practical Advice about Interviewing & Fact Gathering Monk Manny's guide to source development and interviewing: All I ever needed came from The Bible and selling shampoo. (Manny Garcia of the Miami Herald) Tips on backgrounding a subject Josh Meyer's primer: Court Records 101 Insider's Guide to Congress by Karen Masterson Philadelphia Inquirer's investigation into police records Bill Krueger's 10 tips for finding transportation scams	Kitty Bennett's list of experts and sources and where to find them IRE's jumping off point for journalism resources , organized by beat  NewsLink from AJR  A pointers page on copyright and fair use Duff Wilson's FOIA fundamentals The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Web interface to WHOIS CyberTimes Navigator from the NY Times research staff  Experts and sources via PROFNET Searchable journalism links from Scoop Cybersleuth
Computer-Assisted Reporting
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The top 38 excuses why government agencies don't give up data (and what to do about it) Ted Sherman and I did a tutorial on spreadsheets Pat Stith's 5 things you need to know about 9-track tapes Sarah Cohen's Danger! Numbers in the Newsroom Heather Newman's primer on transportation data Richard Mullins: *  excellent advice on SQL (from NICAR's web site) *  'Journalist's FoxPro Library' (20Kb zip fle) *  SQL upsizing program for FoxPro 2.6 (6Kb zip file) Start-to-Finish CAR: The Data Is In - Now What? Sarah Cohen on The First Pass Rose Ciotta on Lab to Field and Back Again Chris Schmitt Getting the Critical Scrutiny	Bill Dedman's 10-Step Plan for Computer-Assisted Reporting and lots of other CAR and Web tips Drew Sullivan's Database of Databases and other good stuff
Writing
Chip Scanlon (of the Poynter Institute ) on 'Storytelling on Deadline' Jim Neff on writing the project with story structure Mary Pat Flaherty's thoughts on interviewing and writing (excellent!)  Great list of books on interviewing, writing, storytelling, grammar and editing
Campaign Finance Links
The Campaign Finance Information Center * Center for Analysis of Public Issues * The Federal Election Commission www.opensecrets.org Tony Raymond's FEC site * Campaign Finance Data & Links (Kenneth Mayer)

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last updated May 3, 2004