The Scoop

A few weekends ago Aron Pilhofer of the New York Times and I led a workshop on covering money in politics at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. We’re still polishing our presentations (we’ve got more of these workshops coming up), but here are links to two PDFs on dealing with electronic filings from the Federal [...]

NICAR has announced the inaugural winners of the Philip Meyer Journalism Award, “a contest to recognize the best journalism done using social science research methods.” In order, the winners are: Steve Suo, The Oregonian, for “Unnecessary Epidemic“, Chris Adams and Alison Young, Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau, for “Discharged and Dishonored” and The Scoop guest author Matthew [...]

There are a number of good suggestions in the NICAR conference evaluations (which available to any IRE member who requests them). Here are a few from this year’s event: * Provide computer resources, especially [for] newer reporters. Maybe the ability to log into an ASP for CAR practice or work. Maybe a subscriber-subscription service where [...]

I’m in Denver for the remainder of the week at the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference, so postings will be sporadic. But you can download the handout (PDF) for my talk on using Federal Election Commission expenditure data.

IRE has released the list of winners and finalists for its 2004 awards. Congrats to those honored, including my former colleagues at the Center for Public Integrity.