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• Doing Student Investigations with Class

  Dufresne offers investigative tips that are modified for the challenges of working with students in a 14-week semester.

  Tags: student projects

  By Marcel Dufresne

  2012

• What You Need To Know To Get Quality Video For Your Project

  In the world of broadcast journalism, a great investigative story is bolstered by great video. Learn tips and tricks about how to use your camera to your advantage in this tipsheet.

  Tags: Camera; Video; B-Roll; Interviews; Shooting; Camera Basics; Shooting basics

  By Bryan Staples, Monica Lam, Rick Yarborough

  2012

• The Ask: Requesting and Negotiating For Records/Data

  A guide on how to procure the documents you need in order to launch your investigation. This step-by-step tipsheet takes you through each individual step to gaining access to government records.

  Tags: Burlington Free Press; FOI; Open Government Laws; Freedom of Information;

  By Mike Donoghue

  2012

• Shadow Banking

  If you're new to shadow banking, this tipsheet can help you de-mystify the search. Shadow banking is banking that happens outside traditional deposit-based banking.

  Tags: Parallel Banking; Wall Street Banking; Shadow Baking; Market Based Banking;

  By Jesse Eisinger, Bradley Keoun, Chris Arnold, Mary Fricker

  2012

• Paying for Political Favor

  A guide on how to employ websites and search engines in your investigation of political contributions and lobbying.

  Tags: Federal Elections Committee; Political Contributions; Lobbying; President; Open Secret

  By Angela Moreschi

  2012

• Examining For-Profit Colleges

  This tipsheet contains a guide on how to begin your investigation into the financial records and habits of for-profit colleges.

  Tags: For Profit College; College; University; Education

  By Angela Moreschi

  2012

• Broadcast: The Paper Chase

  A guide for broadcasters on how to navigate through endless stacks of government documents and forms, in order to find the real story.

  Tags: FOIA; Freedom of Information; Public Records; Government Documents;

  By Kathleen Johnson, Ron Regan, Phil Williams

  2012

• Managing the CAR Project

  Donald, Sallah and Stapleton created an extensive list of almost every step you should take while managing a computer-assisted reporting project.

  Tags: CAR; managing; computer-assisted reporting

  By Mike Sallah (The Miami Herald), Christine Stapleton (The Palm Beach Post), David Donald (Center for Public Integrity)

  2012

• Year in CAR

  Horvit and Luther go over some of the best stories, from the past year, using computer-assisted reporting.

  Tags: story ideas; CAR

  By Mark Horvit and Megan Luther

  2012

• Analysis Tools at FollowTheMoney.org

  Roth Barber highlights the many great tools at FollowTheMoney.org in this tipsheet. There's everything from an independent spending database to "A unique view of the top 10,000 donors to political campaigns at both the state and federal level—information that exists nowhere else."

  Tags: campaign spending; donors; tracking the money; L-CAT; contributors

  By Denise Roth Barber

  2012