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• Investigating Poverty

  Murphy explains why it's important to cover poverty and gives a brief history of what it entails and how the U.S. defines it.

  Tags: The Orshansky measure; poverty terms

  By Jarrett Murphy

  2012

• Follow the Money: The Coming Boom in Toll Roads

  Use this Powerpoint presentation to learn how to follow the toll road money. Overberg gives a brief history and explains how highway design, finance, construction and operation is changing.

  Tags: toll roads; private investors; following the money

  By Paul Overberg

  2012

• Forming and Operating a Tax-Exempt Journalism Organization

  Hermes extensively lays out what it means to be a tax-exempt journalism organization and the history behind it and provides legal resources for anyone interested in starting their own nonprofit center.

  Tags: nonprofits; tax-exempt; 990; 501(c)(3)

  By Jeff Hermes

  2012

• PIECES OF THE PAST Building your stories from archives and historical documents

  If you're covering any topic that touches government, business, or influential people, you may be missing out on a piece of the story if you aren't using archives and historical documents. Neff provides useful tips on how to utilize these.

  Tags: archives; history; public records; Worldcat

  By James Neff

  2012

• Who Is John Doe -- And How To Get The Paper On Him

  Useful links for investigating individuals in areas such as living history, credit history, licensing, past or current incarceration, current occupation, etc. http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm

  Tags: person; search; credit; history; incarceration; occupation

  By N/A

  2012

• Understanding the American Community Survey

  This extensive presentation provides great detail about the American Community Survey. The authors give a brief history on the ACS and the basics about the survey. They also provide suggestions on how to get the most from the data that is made available.

  Tags: census; ACS; survey; geographic; population

  By Shelley Lowe; Stacy Vidal

  2011

• Borrowers Betrayed: Covering Business as a Crime Scene

  This tipsheet details how a computer-assisted reporting investigation into toxic home loans turned into a crime story when in-depth analysis showed 10,000 people with criminal histories had been licensed as mortgage professionals.

  Tags: mortgage; subprime; toxic loans; Florida; criminal justice; shoe-leather reporting; fraud; real estate; brokerage; stolen identity

  By Matthew Haggman

  2010

• Resources for Covering California's State Capitol

  Joseph created a list of resources when covering the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. His list includes a brief description of what information is available through each resource, along with the pertinent links.

  Tags: California government; capitol reporting; state senates; Cal-Access; California Legislature; Cal Channel; Capitol Morning Report; Legislative Analyst's Office; LAO; Department of Personnel Administration; California Fair Political Practices Commission; Leginfo; California Election History

  By Brian Joseph

  2009

• Tips on Backgrounding People

  Edds offers sources to find dates of birth, telephone numbers, criminal records, driving histories, financial information, education information and newspaper clips to assist you in backgrounding people.

  Tags: backgrouding; internet research; online sources; news research

  By Carolyn Edds

  2008

• Backgrounding People on the Internet

  This extensive guide to researching people online contains a long list of useful sources including news archives, people/business finders, city data, county data, criminal histories and occupational licenses. The tipsheet also includes Guckian's own suggestions about how to get the most out of search engines and public records.

  Tags: internet; backgrounding; sources; web sites; people finder; social networking sites

  By Kelly Guckian

  2008