Resources

Watch this panel recording with Walter Smith Randolph and Andrea Ball, investigative journalists with tools and tips for investigations.

This workshop recording shows social platforms that can be useful in background reporting and finding more information on an individual.

Watch this workshop recording to learn what you can find and analyze in personal financial disclosures from members of Congress.

This workshop recording shows how to find more information about an individual's professional and educational background.

This workshop recording shows different ways to track legislators at the state and local levels.

This workshop recording is the first session in our series of five, in which we discuss the importance of and ways to start backgrounding.

Watch It's All Political to learn from our partners at OpenSecrets about various tips and tricks for tracking political history.

Learn tools and techniques to investigate businesses from Sunlight, Lecia Kaslofsky, and Laurie Cohen.

This panel recording demonstrates key investigative strategies, expert-recommended articles, and research tools to support journalists.

Watch this recorded training to learn how to track lobbying activities and gifts to elected officials at the federal and state levels.

This Reporting Recipe is a step-by-step guide showing how to identify PPP loans to political candidates, their businesses and their spouses.

This document provides a state-by-state list of where to find or who to contact to obtain state-level personal financial disclosures.

This tip sheet includes tips for identifying and interviewing sources from Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, Laurie Cohen.

This tip sheet compiles key investigative strategies, expert-recommended articles, and research tools to support journalists.

This tip sheet compiles a robust list of social media platforms that can be useful in background reporting.