Wednesday, May 06, 2009
The Web's Got the Power!
The third and final installment of tips, tricks and sites to check out from the New England First Amendment Coalition's Freedom of Information/Investigative Journalism Seminar. Check out the first and second installments as well.Government Contracts: http://www.usaspending.gov/
- search by company, state, agency, product, or congressional district and export the data to a spreadsheet
- know these Web sites can be incomplete; cross check with press releases, news stories, agency Web sites and SEC filings
- Check out the S-1 reports from companies selling stock; the 10-Q quarterly filings; the 10-K annual report; the Def-14 proxy that is filed before a shareholder meeting and the 8K used for special reports and announcements
- Other sites to check out:
- www.10kwizard.com (subscription)
- www.secfilings.com (subscription)
- Finance.yahoo.com (Free and has other features for following companies)
- www.guidestar.com
- Foundationcenter.org
- Nccs.urban.org/database/index.cfm
- Philanthropy.com (Chronicle of Philanthropy –– offers a free subscription to journalists)
- File an annual report with the Labor Department called an LM-2
- Find them here: http://erds.dol-esa.gov/query/getOrgQry.do
For searching multiple sites at once:
- Zoominfo: http://www.zoominfo.com
- Pipl: http://www.pipl.com
- Icerocket: http://www.icerocket.com
- Domain Tools http://www.domaintools.com
- Allwhois http://www.allwhois.com
- The Wayback Machine: www.archive.org/index.php
- Cybercemetery: http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/default.htm
- GPO Access GAO reports: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/index.html
- FedStats: http://www.fedstats.gov/
- NationMaster http://www.nationmaster.com
- Excluded Parties List System (GAO) http://www.epls.gov/
- Federal contracts http://www.usaspending.gov
- National Sex Offender Public Registry: http://www.nsopr.gov
- Center for Responsive Politics: http://www.opensecrets.org/
- State financial disclosure at Center for Public Integrity: http://www.publicintegrity.org/StateDisclosure/
- Lobbying Disclosure Act Database http://soprweb.senate.gov/
- Congressional staff salaries/Congressional travel http://www.legistorm.com
- Congressional travel reports from the original source: http://soprweb.senate.gov/giftrule/
- Maplight (combines contributions and voting records): http://www.maplight.org
- Official government site for campaign finance data: www.fec.gov/disclosure.shmtl
Labels: FOIA, investigative journalism, seminars/workshops, Web sites
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