Political Reporting Resources
Bob's resource links for reporters:
Politics, Elections & Campaign Finance 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! (This copy is also an experiment in exporting data from URL Manager Pro to my Radio weblog. If the page has problems, the link at the top should go to an identical list in standard HTML.)
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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
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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
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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
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- Inside Politics...
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The
Welch Report
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- AllPolitics.com
(CNN-Time/Warner)
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State
of Massachusetts Elections Division
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- DemocracyNet.org
-- League of Women Voters Election Info
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- Votenet.com
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- Freedomchannel.com/
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- Voxcap.com
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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:
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- Massachusetts
Campaign Finance
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- Opensecrets.org--Money
in politics data
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- Federal
Elections Commission Info
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- America's
Voices
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- Stateline.org
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