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• Paying for Political Favor

  A guide on how to employ websites and search engines in your investigation of political contributions and lobbying.

  Tags: Federal Elections Committee; Political Contributions; Lobbying; President; Open Secret

  By Angela Moreschi

  2012

• Finding the Story

  Berens gives great tips on how to break a big enterprise story. "The key is to not only follow your gut but to employ specific strategies that allow you to attack story ideas from new directions." This extensive tipsheet has all you need for a brilliant story.

  Tags: enterprise story; research; story ideas

  By Michael Berens

  2012

• Drones for Journalism

  This tipsheet explores the possibility of employing drones to carry out the duties of a traditional journalist.

  Tags: Drones

  By N/A

  2012

• On the Beat: The Military

  McKie eases the fears of reporters new to covering the military. He talks about the bigger picture of covering the military - not only as a "fighting machine" but "a major employer, major spender, and an economic engine." He talks about dividing the beat into short- and long-term stories.

  Tags: military; Canada; United States; war; casualties; armed forces; soldier; military contracts

  By David McKie

  2010

• Exposing Dangerous Caregivers

  Kauffman's tipsheet decribes how to use unemployment-benefit claims to track caregiver misconduct; using federal labor records to track caregivers also acting as employers; and quick hit stories that can be done with this information.

  Tags: misconduct; medical professionals; unlicensed doctors; physicians; hospitals; licensing boards; HIPPA

  By Clark Kauffman

  2010

• Using the Google Maps Flas API with Flex

  Flex is a free Actionscript with an xml-based markup. Fenton discusses the pros/cons of employing Flex for google map apps.

  Tags: mapping; Google Maps; Flex; actionscript

  By Jacob Fenton

  2010

• Dissecting the recession for local impact

  Mellnik details the information you can mine to determine how the recession in impacting your local economy.

  Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics (LAUS); Current Employer Statistics (CES); Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW); MLS; Office of Federal Housing Enterpirse Oversight (OFHEO); Economy.com; FHA

  By Ted Mellnik

  2009

• Bank, Finance and Lobbying Data

  This tipsheet lists resources for covering information related to finance. Included is a brief summation of the information contained on each site. Subjects covered on the tipsheet include: banks, finance, and lobbying; inflation; labor and employment data; consumer data.

  Tags: banks; finance; lobbying; consumer data; inflation; labor; employment; hedge funds; short selling; CPI-U; CPI-U-RS; Center for Responsible Lending; National Consumer Law Center; Consumer Federation of America

  By n/a

  2009

• Tracking local employment and pay trends

  This powerpoint presentation discusses how to find important stories hidden within the larger issue of employment and pay trends. For example, Knox explains how to determine which businesses in your community are hiring and firing the most people. He also discusses various economic surveys and how they may or may not be helpful to reporters on this beat. Lastly, he discusses how to find and analyze the data for this sort of story.

  Tags: jobs; wages and hours; business; employment; census; economy; state government; data analysis

  By David Knox

  2007

• Using CAR on Consumer Investigations: making the best use of databases to build stories

  This powerpoint presentation discusses how to get started investigating consumer issues. It also offers several examples of successful consumer investigations that employ CAR. Finally, it includes a list of resources that will be useful for reporters on this beat.

  Tags: consumer affairs; consumer issues; computer-assisted reporting; database analysis; business; licensing bureaus; product safety

  By Mc Nelly Torres; Chris Schnaars

  2007