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Investigating Political Influence
Baker provides a list of questions one should consider - and ask their sources - when covering influence at government agencies. Included are useful links for deciphering the puzzle of influence: lobbying disclosure forms; IRS filings and disclosures; earmark data; and much more.
Tags: politics; lobbying; earmarks; political action committees (PACs); campaign finance;
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Campaign Finance: Tracking the Money
This tipsheet outlines important facts for those reporting on campaign finance and outlines information reporters should look at when analyzing campaign finance information. It also provides links to several useful sites/organizations who track campaign finance information, including some that provide data for download.It also touches on lobbying information.
Tags: campaign finance; lobbying; Federal Election Commission; FEC; PAC; political action committees; Center for Responsive Politics; Sunlight Foundation; Political Party Time; Internal Revenue Service; IRS; National Institute on Money in State Politics; TransparencyData.com; Congrelate.org
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Ten Things to Look For Next Month - Midyear campaign finance filings
This list looks at what to look for in the midyear filings for both campaign finance and lobbying. From largest contributors and opponents' fundraising to new registrations and issues in the news.
Tags: campaign finance; lobbying; PAC; donations; contributions; political action committees
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Tipsheet: Money in Politics
The author suggests resources and story ideas for reporters covering campaign finance.
Tags: political campaigns; Sunlight Foundation; PAC; Political Action Committees; story ideas
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Analyzing Campaign Data
Guckian gives guidelines to follow when reporting on elections, campaigns, etc. She provides useful information on filing periods and deadlines, federal laws that limit campaign gifts, Texas laws on the subject, places to find the data and common problems with data analysis, and more.En Espanol: 2888
Tags: elections; campaign money; politics; political action committees; lobbyists; fraud; social network analysis
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Salant/Overby Collection
This packet is a collection of stories that Salant has written for Bloomberg about campaign finance and stories that Overby has reported on (about the same subject) for NPR.
Tags: political action committees; elections; Mayor Ray Nagin; New Orleans; Hurricane Katrina; elections campaigns; lobbying; Abramoff; corruption; Tom Delay
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50 Campaign Finance Stories in 50 Minutes
Overby and Salant provide tips that reporters covering campaign finance can use, along with numerous questions they should ask during the reporting process. They also provide a list of Web sites that are helpful to reporters who are tackling this subject.
Tags: investigations; candidate fundraising; elections; political action committees; lobbyists
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Corporate Documents
This tipsheet is a good guide to understanding corporate documents. It covers good starting places, like SEC filings, and lists helpful websites, like www.bloomberg.com. The tipsheet explains all different kinds of common forms, like 8-K and Schedule 13-D. Finally, it talks about different kinds of helpful documents like UCC filings and court records.
Tags: taxes; corporate records; 10-K; S-1; shareholders; proxies; Securities and Exchange Commission; Electronic Data Gathering; Analysis and Retrieval system; Uniform Commercial Code; PAC; Political Action Committee; CEO; business reporting
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Corporate documents
Skertic lists a number of Web sites and documents useful for uncovering whether a corporation has broken the rules. Included is detailed information about several key U.S. Security and Exchange Commission filings such as the 10-K, 8-K and 13-D forms.
Tags: corporation; business; corporate; investigative reporting; documents; Web sites; federal government; SEC; Security and Exchange Commission; EDGAR; court records; political action committees; lobbyists; Uniform Commercial Code; UCC; 10-K; proxies; 8-K; 13-D; S-1
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Cash Correlation
Jonathan Salant briefly describes five web sites that offer detailed information related to different aspects of campaign finances. These include the matching of campaign contributions to votes won, giving patterns of local companies and attempts at expanding the base of fund raisers, among others.
Tags: www.fec.gov; www.opensecrets.org; www.fecinfo.com; political action committee contributions; GOP; PAC