The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "2012 campaign" ...
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THE NEW SOFT MONEY Citizens United, 527s, 501(c)s and the Rise of Super PACs
Allison lays out how the rules have changed since the Citizens United case and how to cover Super PACS and 501(c)s.
Tags: campaign finance; election; 2012; superPACs
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Campaign Finance & Political Influence: An Overview
Allison gives tons of tips and examples of how to cover campaign finance and its influence on politics.
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Access and Influence: A guide to following the money and legislative or regulatory outcomes.
Nixon's Powerpoint lays out how to follow the money in and out of the election season. He includes documents to use and examples of news stories.
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Resources for Following the 2012 Campaign
Masket provides over a dozens websites for you to use when covering all things campaign related; from advertising to political scientists' commentary.
Tags: election coverage; 2012 campaign
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Center for Responsive Politics guide to covering the 2012 election
With the 2012 election promising to be the most expensive on record, Novak offers helpful questions to ask yourself when covering the candidates' spending as well as outside groups' such as SuperPACs.
Tags: campaign finance; election; 2012; superPACs
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Analysis Tools at FollowTheMoney.org
Roth Barber highlights the many great tools at FollowTheMoney.org in this tipsheet. There's everything from an independent spending database to "A unique view of the top 10,000 donors to political campaigns at both the state and federal level—information that exists nowhere else."
Tags: campaign spending; donors; tracking the money; L-CAT; contributors
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FOLLOW THE MONEY – Tracking Companies’ Influence on Politics
Allison and Nixon give you extensive tips and share lots of websites so that you can track what kind of influence a company has on this year's (or any) election.
Tags: campaign finance; elections; tracking; FEC
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Campaign 2012: Follow the Money
In the midst of the 2012 Election Campaign, this tipsheet gives investigators a framework on how to follow the money including dozens of helpful websites.
Tags: campaign finance; FEC; elections; data
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HealthCare Money --- finding stories in elections that can have local and national focus
This extensive tipsheet will provide you with everything you need to follow the money going to healthcare reform this campaign season. Included are dozens and dozens of websites and tips on how to cover PACs.
Tags: campaign finance; politics; money; PACs; healthcare
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Campaign 2012: Tips for backgrounding candidates
Use this tipsheet to help you cover the candidates this election season. Gillum provides the strategies you'll need and gives tips on how to use documents and data to your advantage.
Tags: political candidates; campaign coverage; following the money