Sunlight Research Desk and MuckRock are joining forces to expand the tools, training and research support that help local newsrooms deliver high-impact reporting. Read more here.
Powering investigative journalism. Serving local newsrooms.
Sunlight Research Desk equips newsrooms to provide their communities fact-based, transparent investigative journalism that holds power to account.
We have served over 220 local newsrooms through workshops, resources and membership.
Our research desk helps reporters deepen today's investigations and train them for tomorrow's.
As a project of the MuckRock Foundation, Sunlight Research Desk supports newsrooms through research support, expert-led workshops, reporting recipes and tools, and a vibrant peer-to-peer support network.
Sunlight Membership builds your newsroom capacity for investigations.
Our research desk provides collaborative research and data analysis support to local newsrooms, boosting their capacity to develop important stories.
We partner with newsrooms to find documents and data sets that are the building blocks for investigations that inform their communities.
We help newsrooms with:
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Candidate backgrounding
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Document gathering
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Timeline preparations
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Data analysis
Research Desk
Training & Support
Toolkit
Newsroom Workshops & Tools
Join a network of newsroom professionals to find workshops, tools and insights for journalists.
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Hands-on workshops provide journalists powerful tools and techniques to expand their reporting skillset.
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Expert research training and tools help reporters access and interpret public records, including property, campaign finance and business filings.
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An online network where journalists, experts and researchers can learn from and support each other’s work.
What journalists are saying about Sunlight Research Center
Without their support, the deep dive we published would not have been possible.
The Riverside Record
I took some Sunlight Research Center trainings and came away with some better tools and new ideas on how to improve my reporting. I'm definitely looking forward to future trainings!
North American correspondent for Gas Outlook
The backgrounding you did about the CCA judicial candidates helped provide important context in this key race with historic changes in the Texas high court that determines the fate of so many condemned to death. Thanks for the opportunity and I hope to find others to work together in the future.
The Texas Observer
