She has the brilliant idea to have a page where she puts the links for all the things that she discusses in her videos (lectures) . Brilliant. Although this quadruples the amount of reading material that you have, if you are going to be hard core about this learning gig. I like to pretend that I am ...
http://www.newslab.org/2012/11/20/tips-for-investigative-reporting/
Lee Zurik, WVUE New Orleans
- IRE - Investigative Reporters and Editors http://www.ire.org/
- Regularly request records, public documents
- Your request might lead to an anonymous or not so anonymous tip regarding what to look for
- Ask for records electronically
- Keep track of the law, court cases and opinions from attorney general, in case someone gives you grief about your info request
- Look at hidden entities, Brett Shipp investigate obscure entities and agencies
- Strong investigations dig deeper than one or two stories, be prepared to follow your story as long as it takes
- Freedom of information acts in over 100 countries
- Don't have to be a citizen to make a request
- Reporters committee for Freedom of the press has info on US laws http://www.rcfp.org
- Global Investigative Journalism Network has links to laws worldwide. http://gijn.org/resources/freedom-of-information-laws/
- Know your rights, use sources to figure out what records you are entitled to, who to ask, insist that you get them
- Public officials may ignore them but the also might not.
- You might have other ways to get the data
- Govt's post data
- Search Systems http://publicrecords.searchsystems.net - what records are posted for free, property records, corporate records, licensing records for Dr's, lawyers, massage therapists, bar owners, find connections between people and doing stories
- Advanced Google search look inside the website for documents uploaded, search by format .xls, .ppt
- Declarations of asset
- Property and business records
- Corporate registries
- Payroll/salary databases/travel and expense records
- Press releases and candidate statements/ in office and over time
- Public Contract databases
- social media
- Look for videos and photos
- twitter, FB, linked in and youtube
- old webpages on the wayback machine http://archive/org/web/web/pjp
What's surprising, weird or even illegal
What's the context or the news
What's changed
Look for lies and contraditions
Don't forget human sources, ask them to send you data
- money laundrering
- corporations tied to him and family members
- property records
- Google earth of property
- records - public official's wife's facebook page
- take info and put it in a format that can be analyzed
Review a story or video from the reading list
Join discussions
Review the more Ideas presentation
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