Bob's resource links for reporters:
This is one of many files of bookmarks I've collected for journalism students, professional journalists -- and interested citizens with weblogs. This list includes organizations and sources of election-coverage advice, rather than actual "election news" from news organizations. I can't promise the links -- or sites -- are all up to date, but I hope you find some of them helpful!
Politics, Elections & Campaign Finance
Politics & elections in general
- Project Vote Smart Web
- Project Vote Smart includes a database of info on candidates and elected officials, as well as sections on issues, finance, voter registration and state resources.
- Center for Public Integrity
- CPI's award-winning independent investigative journalists have produced 10 books and more than 100 reports, including a Citizen Muckrakers' Handbook
- Election Reform @ Stateline.org
- Stateline is run the Pew Center on the States, a research organization administered by the University of Richmond and funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts .
- Government Information Awareness @ MIT
- Developed at MIT's Media Lab, GIA is designed to let citizens contribute, share and investigate information about government, in response to "Total Information Awareness" ideas about collecting data about citizens. See press release.
- Robert Niles: Questions to ask candidates
- Suggestions from a a senior producer at latimes.com who also has great tips on using statistics to find and document stories.
- Political coverage resources-RTNDF
- From the Radio & Television News Directors Foundation
- Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
- Weblog-style collection of news clippings with links and area for readers to comment. Goddard is Kennedy School of gov't grad, author
- American Politics Journal
- links, polls, columnists, "pundit pap"
- Journalists Toolbox election resources
- Provided by the American Press Institute
- Campaign Resources-RTNDF
- The Radio & Television News Directors Association provides resources and links for reporters.
- Open Doors Program--FOIA
- The Society of Professional Journalists information about using the Freedom of Information Act.
- Investigative Reporters and Editors CampaignFinance.org
- National organization for database-savvy journalists provides training and resources, including CampaignFinance.org
- Political Reporting Online with the Pros
- Candidates, Campaigns, and Computers article with links from Poynter Institute for Journalism Education columnist Robin Sloan
- Retail Politics and the Power of the New Hampshire Primary
- By an energy and telecommunications lobbyist and Democratic activist in Concord, New Hampshire.
- Johns Hopkins Journal of American Politics
- Grad-student-run publication was the source of the above article
- The Political Graveyard
- Despite the name, this site includes folks who aren't dead yet, just out of elective or appointed office.
- Harvard's Nieman Foundation Election Workshop
- The "Are We Asking the Right Questions?" Watchdog Conference was in 1999, but some of the issues haven't changed. For conference results, see Nieman Reports, below.
- Nieman Reports on 2000 election
- Harvard's Nieman Foundation for Journalism published a Summer 2000 issue on that year's election coverage, available as a large PDF file.
More:
- Common Cause - Citizens vs. special interests
- Inside Politics...
- The Welch Report
- AllPolitics.com (CNN-Time/Warner)
- State of Massachusetts Elections Division
- DemocracyNet.org -- League of Women Voters Election Info
- Votenet.com
- Freedomchannel.com/
- Voxcap.com
Money, influence and campaign finance
- Political Money Line
- Includes mugshots & profiles of candidates, committee members, links to bills, pacs, dollar totals.
- Buying of the President 2004 -- CPI report
- Following the money on millionaire presidential candidates and their contributors. CPI's award-winning investigative reporters bave produced 10 books and more than 100 investigative studies in the past decade.
- National Voting Rights Institute
- Campaign finance reform legal center; litigation and public education.
- Campaign finance @Stateline.org
- Stateline is run the Pew Center on the States, a research organization administered by the University of Richmond and funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
- Follow the Money - The Database
- From the National Institute on Money in State Politics, a nonpartisan program dedicated to research on campaign finance.
- The Reform Institute--John McCain, chair
- Trevor Potter, director & gen'l counsel
- Campaign Finance Reform: The Issue
- Center for Responsive Politics
- United Auto Workers
- Example of a major union's political site
- Mass. Voters for Clean Elections
- News clips and links on Finnernan, finance reform.
More:- Massachusetts Campaign Finance
- Opensecrets.org--Money in politics data
- Federal Elections Commission Info
- America's Voices
- Stateline.org
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