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Investigative essentials for before and after the elections

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Host: Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Aron Pilhofer of The New York Times and Daniel Lathrop of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer will lead this workshop.

This workshop is being made possible in part by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York.


Saturday,
December 8
Campaign finance laws and loopholes
8:30 a.m. Registration
9 a.m. Federal campaign finance: What every reporter needs to know
11 a.m. Reporting the money story
The new soft money
1:30 p.m. Money at the intersection of federal and state elections
3 p.m. Best and worst practices for money in politics reporters
4:30 p.m. Data: Getting and using federal campaign finance data
5 p.m. Questions and Wrap-up
Sunday,
December 9

Working with raw data
9 a.m. - Noon Hands-on: Working with federal data
Hands-on: Working with state, federal and 527 data
Questions and Wrap-up