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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

  By Viveca Novak

  2012

• 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

  By Denise Roth Barber

  2012

• Broadcast: After Breaking News, What's Next?

  This tipsheet is comprised of many useful web links covering topics of aviation accidents, automobiles and trucks, political campaign data, federal spending, U.S. court system, crime, business records, weather and more.

  Tags: aviation; transportation; accidents; weather; government; federal spending; courts; crime

  By Stephen Stock

  2011

• Useful Websites for data and quick lookup

  A comprehensive list of links for accessing data and information online for topics such as: aviation accidents; automobiles/trucks; political campaign data; federal spending; U.S. court system; crime/inmates; business records and nonprofits; weather; general useful tools online.

  Tags: aviation accidents; automobiles/trucks; political campaign data; federal spending; U.S. court system; crime/inmates; business records and nonprofits; weather

  By n/a

  2010

• Data on Deadline

  This tipsheet lists helpful websites to use when you need to access data on deadline. Suggested data links include the American Community Survey to campaign finance data to tracking airplane tail numbers.

  Tags: data; quick hit; deadline; census; campaign finance; aviation; transportation; economics; FAA; NHTSA; automobile; consumer safety; politics; courts; federal spending; databases; reporting

  By Robert Benincasa

  2010

• CAR for Money and Politics

  The authors list and describe sources for data to use in stories about money and politics. Some of the sources are place to find concrete records, such as the Federal Election Commission and the IRS. Other sources include organizations that have already compiled the records into searchable databases, like the Center for Public Integrity and OMB watch.

  Tags: lobbyists; campaign contributions; politics; government documents; government contracts; government spending; sources; internet research

  By David Heath (The Seattle Times); Bill Allison (Sunlight Foundation); James V. Grimaldi (The Washington Post)

  2008

• Covering State and Local Government

  In this tipsheet, Amons provides advice for getting beyond the basic state and local government stories. Information about access to public records is included as well as possible story ideas and government Web sites.

  Tags: broadcast; public records; investigative reporting; campaign contributions; Excel; computer-assisted reporting; transportation; crime; sex offenders; spending; quasi-governmental agencies; audits; Kentucky; government Web sites; computer-assisted reporting; CAR

  By Nancy Amons

  2004

• Downloading and analyzing campaign finance data

  This tipsheet looks at four major sites that provide Federal Election Commission data for downloading: The Federal Election Commission, Politicalmoneyline.com and the American University Campaign Finance Site. Obviously, it cannot cover all the details and you would be well-advised to spend time looking at each site before deciding which one best fills your needs.

  Tags: None

  By Wendell Cochran

  2004

• The Statehouse Circus

  Tips on what to search for when following campaigns and state budget investigations. Also available are four stories: State Tops With Bond Agencies/Vetoes Don't Affect Credit Rating by David Hanners, Pioneer Press; Attack or Retreat?// Economists Will Probably Ponder For Years Whether Minnesota's Current Budget Crisis Was the Direct Result of Terrorists Acts of a Predictable Downturn Blown Out of Proportion on September 11 by Jim Ragsdale, Pioneer Press; Late checks help Gilmore make stronger case for car-tax cuts by Holly A. Heyser, The Virginian-Pilot; Hager Backers Reluctant to Donate to Earley by Holly A. Heyser, The Virginian-Pilot; On The Lege: How Virginia legislators spend the donations they get, produced by Virginia Commonwealth University's Legislative Reporting students. These pages contain the headline and the lead paragraphs of the stories produced by these students. The stories are available at http://www.people.vcu.edu/~jcsouth/on-the-lege/

  Tags: politicians; budget; money; campaign finance

  By Holly A. Heyser

  2002

• Exerpt from the 'Follow the Money Handbook'

  This is a booklet that covers many aspects of political reporting, particularly as it relates to campaign fundraising. Subject headings include: Basic Election Season Stories, Computer Assisted Campaign Stories, Spending, PACs, Parties, Soft Money, etc.

  Tags: Politics; campaign finance; PAC; Election

  By Jonathan D. Salant

  2000