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• Covering a corrupt state agency

  Trying to expose a corrupt state agency can be tricky, especially if the agency is secretive and exempt from FOIA laws. Bombardieri provides several tips and tricks to getting inside information from a seemingly impossible source.

  Tags: campaign finance; lawsuits; state payroll

  By Marcella Bombardieri

  2011

• Blowing the whistle without blowing their cover

  Amey discusses what POGO does, and how they work with whistleblowers to uncover systemic corruption. Amey addresses legal pitfalls when working with whistleblowers and weak legal protections.

  Tags: whistleblowers; corruption; POGO; Project on Government Oversight; investigations

  By Scott Amey

  2009

• Follow The Money: Corruption in Alabama's Community Colleges

  Blackledge discusses how to find and examine community colleges' expenditures and payrolls. He draws from his experience reportng on Alabama's community colleges to offer advice to other higher education reporters. His tips include information about how to request data from community colleges, and how to analyze it.

  Tags: higher education; community college; state government; data request; story ideas

  By Brett J. Blackledge

  2008

• Drug trafficking, smuggling and money laundering; covering crime and corruption

  La Nacion has been doing a series of articles exposing the crime and corruption in Costa Rican government. "The following are the 20 different steps, not necessarily sequential, and the internal rules that were applied by the three reporters of La Nacion Investigative Unit to expose these corrruption cases."

  Tags: crime; corruption; government; scandal; interviews; beat reporting; boarder track; corporations; politics

  By Mauricio Herrera Ulloa

  2007

• Spanish translation of: Being the government watchdog: legislative corruption

  This is the spanish translation of tipsheet #2730. Williams comparte las lecciones que aprendio y las tecnicas que uso cuando investigo la legislatura del estado de Tennessee. Da una lista de fuentes y recursos on-line para examinar, gastos para analizar y trucos que los legisladores usan para recolectar y distribuir dinero.

  Tags: gobierno estatal; legislatura; legisladores; corrupcion; finanzas partidarias; finanzas de campaña; registros públicos; fondos estatales; consultoria; regulacion; leyes; influencia; espanol; 2730

  By Phil Williams

  2006

• Being the government watchdog: legislative corruption

  Williams shares lessons he learned and techniques he used while investigating the Tennessee state legislature. He lists sources and on-line resources to examine, expenditures to scrutinize and tricks lawmakers use to collect and distribute money.

  Tags: state government; legislature; legislators; corruption; campaign finance; open records; public records; state funds; consulting; regulation; lawmakers; influence; graft

  By Phil Williams

  2006

• Index of Blank Check Stories

  This tipsheet is comprised of a compilation of Washington Post stories about how various government agencies award contracts unfairly.

  Tags: government expenditures; federal government; state government; contracts; contractors; fraud; corruption

  By David Fallis

  2006

• Tracking Political Influence

  This very dense tipsheet is full of resources for investigating how businesses influence both the federal and state government. It discusses lobbying, campaign donations and other ways of influencing lawmakers, such as giving gifts. The tipsheet references a lot of websites that will be useful in this sort of journalism.

  Tags: business; corporate fraud; campaign fundraising; campaign donations; backgrounding; state government; county government

  By James V. Grimaldi, Charles Lewis

  2005

• Tips for covering government contracts

  Fazlollah makes his tipsheet into a roadmap for covering government contracts. He details the events of a contract story the Inquirer did, and lists the events as a step by step process for reporting a similar story.

  Tags: contract; municipal; corruption; pension fun; bond

  By Mark Fazlollah

  2005

• Tracking the dollar in government

  D'Ambrosio gives tips on how to root out "legalized corruption": political payback to friends and financial supporters of candidates. He notes which government records to look for and where to find them, and gives two SQL query formulas to match criteria in separate electronic databases.

  Tags: tracking the dollar; CAR; computer-assisted reporting; check register; contracts database; election finance database; pensions database

  By Paul D'Ambrosio

  2004