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.

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

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

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

This tip sheet compiles key tools and resources for analyzing personal financial disclosures of political candidates.

This tip sheet from Sunlight's training session, New Year, New Lawmakers, provides resources for tracking elected officials at both the federal and state levels.

This tip sheet offers instructions on how to use MuckRock’s services, as well as a list of secondary steps to take once you have begun the process of formulating your public records requests. Use these resources to make requesting and accessing public information simpler and more successful.

This tip sheet is from Sunlight's workshop session, 'Tis the season: Fa la la la Lobbying and Gifts. Here you'll find links to helpful resources for investigating lobbying activity at the federal and state levels. You'll also find resources for looking into gifts to elected officials at both levels.

The Backgrounding Basics tip sheet includes a Timeline & Source List template spreadsheet, an Investigative Checklist and suggested Source List. Use these resources to conduct and track your research so that you can see where events overlap in newsworthy ways and identify sources for interviews.

The School and Work tip sheet includes a Timeline & Source List template spreadsheet, an Investigative Checklist and suggested Source List. Use these resources to learn more about where an individual has worked and what schools they have attended and identify sources who can verify that information.