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Resources for Following the 2012 Campaign
Masket provides over a dozens websites for you to use when covering all things campaign related; from advertising to political scientists' commentary.
Tags: election coverage; 2012 campaign
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Campaign 2012: Tips for backgrounding candidates
Use this tipsheet to help you cover the candidates this election season. Gillum provides the strategies you'll need and gives tips on how to use documents and data to your advantage.
Tags: political candidates; campaign coverage; following the money
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Campaigns and politics: Donors, expenditures and lobbyists
The combination of new laws and an increase in electronic filings leads to a whole new battlefield to negotiate when it comes to covering campaign finance. Willis explains how the new law changes coverage of this important area. He also gives out the differences between electronic filing data and FEC FTP data. There's lots more in this informative tipsheet.
Tags: CFIC; campaign finance; FEC; elections; contributions; electronic filings; FTP; data cleaning; legislation; campaigns; politics; donors; PACs; IRS
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All politics is local
A series of important questions to ask about politics on the local level and web resources to help aid political reporting.
Tags: local politics; polititcs; campaign finance
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Elections: Before and After
Lawrence Messina provides tips on how to background candidates and avoid horse-race coverage. The handouts includes links to election websites.
Tags: registration; voter turnout; interest groups; campaigns
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Making sports part of the team
Phillips gives some suggestions and story ideas based on the use of statistics in sports coverage. A major advice is to look at non-sports aspects such as sports-related charities and campaign contributions by sports figures and team owners.
Tags: batting average; Excel; CAR; players' salaries; charts
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Resources for Campaign and Election Coverage; Covering Campaigns Online; Tapping into the wired electorate
For political reporters, there's more to cyberspace than finding government records and campaign data. There's also the InterNet and the 1996 elections arguably will be the first in which this new medium plays a noticeable part. This package is a must for anyone going on-line for this election.
Tags: On-line Campaign Coverage Usenets Listservs Forums Mailing lists Databases 21 pgs.
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Resources for Campaign and Election Coverage
"Resources for Campaign and Election Coverage" describes ways to find background information on issues and candidates, texts of speeches and press releases, tracking voting and campaign finance records and finding sources and reference books., a bibiliography on campaign coverage and a listing of all online services.