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Money in Politics: Following the money trail in 2008 elections
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Host: Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University

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

The workshop will be led by Aron Pilhofer, The New York Times, and Derek Willis, Washingtonpost.com.


Saturday,
March 24 		Campaign finance laws and loopholes
8:30 a.m. Registration
9 a.m. - Noon • Federal campaign finance: What every reporter needs to know
• Focus on states: An in-depth look at state laws
Noon - 1:30 p.m. Lunch on your own
The new soft money
1:30 p.m. 527s and nonprofits: The new soft money, and why reporters need to pay attention
3 p.m. Data: Getting and using federal campaign finance data
4:30 p.m. Data: Finding data in your state
5 p.m. Questions and Wrap-up
Sunday,
March 25
Working with raw data
9 a.m. - Noon • Working with federal data
• Hands-on: Working with state, federal and 527 data
• Questions and Wrap-up