Tipsheets on campaign finance

A collection of journalism tipsheets on campaign finance research provides guidance on accessing resources from the National Institute on Money in State Politics, analyzing campaign finance data to uncover relationships between candidates and contributors, and conducting online searches for campaign finance information.

Check out the following tipsheets on campaign finance:

Tipsheet #992, "www.followthemoney.org," from the 1999 IRE National Conference, provides a list of resources available from the National Institute on Money in State Politics.

Tipsheet #937, "Campaign Cash: Is it better to give than receive?" from the 1999 National CAR Conference suggests ways to look at campaign finance data and discover relationships among candidates, contributors and issues.

Tipsheet #827 from the panel "Uncovering the secrets of campaign finance and lobbyists" at the 1998 IRE National Conference gives tips on online searching for campaign finance information.

All tipsheets are available online at www.ire.org/resourcecenter