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• Anatomy of an Investigation

  Use these tips when investigating safety issues involving construction sites and buildings that are already in use.

  Tags: construction; school safety; oversight; public records; mismanagement; documents

  By Kendall Taggart

  2012

• Investigating Public School Construction

  Holland gives tips on how to use public records, confidential sources and computer-assisted reporting to expose reckless spending and shoddy construction in your public school's construction.

  Tags: construction; school safety; oversight; public records

  By Gale Holland

  2012

• How Well Does Your State Oversee Nurses (and pharmacists, dentists, psychologists...)?

  Government oversight can be tricky when it comes to our caregivers. Find out who is overseeing your nurse, and whether or not they are qualified to be evaluating such performances.

  Tags: nurses; nurse oversight; quality patient care.

  By Tracy Weber

  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

• Oversight (from pane:

  Zerbe's Powerpoint outlines the issues surrounding the oversight of charities, and how to dissect the new 990 forms.

  Tags: nonprofit; charity; 990 form; Guidestar;

  By Dean Zerbe

  2009

• Covering the Military Beat

  Capaccio discusses the challenges of reporting on the military. He suggests resources to familiarize yourself with when you begin to cover this beat, and how to organize yourself so you have the needed resources at hand - from Pentagon URLs to up-to-date phone lists. Included in this document is a chart of Military Insignia and what each stands for by specific branch of the military. He also includes sample documents from military resources

  Tags: military; contacts; Pentagon; Pen and Sword: A Journalist's Guide to Covering the Military; Ed Offley; Army; Marines; POGO; Project on Government Oversight; The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment; CSBA

  By Tony Capaccio

  2008

• 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

• Investigating Nonprofits and Dissecting Their Tax Returns

  This PowerPoint presentation discusses tax oversight of nonprofits, and offers tips for reading between the lines of a 990 form. The author lists the information available in every line of a 990, and how to use that information for your story. Finally, he suggests certain red flags to watch out for when using 990 forms.

  Tags: None

  By Dean Zerbe

  2008

• Bulletproofing a Watchdog Story

  The author discusses several tips for being organized while working on an investigation. He also shares advice for how to be as thorough as possible, in order to eliminate any accidental error or oversight.

  Tags: editing; newsroom management; organization

  By Ron Campbell

  2007

• Reporting on Federally-Funded Highway and Transit Projects

  This tipsheet provides assistance for reporters who are covering highway, transit and airport construction projects that involve the use of federal funds. Barnes provides an oversight of federal transportation funds, common contract fraud schemes, ways to find problems during construction projects and helpful Web sites, along with much more. En espanol: #2870

  Tags: U.S. Department of Transportation; fraud; roads; airports; construction

  By David Barnes

  2006