Access to government records and FOIA tips: Guide for citizens and journalists
Guide from the Citizen Media Law Project providing an overview of FOIA and other techniques for finding documents at different levels of government.
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Recording phone calls and conversations: Legal guide from the Citizen Media Law Project
Legal tip sheet from the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard’s Berkman Center.
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Health reporting: Semester-long course on covering the science, policy and business of health care
Semester-long course on covering health care in the United States, including investigating wrongdoing in health and medicine, and interpret health in political, socio-economic and medical contexts.
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Research chat: Clay Shirky on press freedom in a global era
2011 lecture by Clay Shirky at the Shorenstein Center on freedom of the press in a global age.
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Business reporting: Semester-long course on how to develop compelling business-related stories
Semester-long course on how to understand what’s going on at companies and to report and write compelling business stories.
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Legal reporting: Covering the judicial system and understanding its importance
Semester-long course on the structure of the judicial system and its terminology, function, and importance in public understanding of how the government operates.
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Feature writing: Crafting research-based stories with characters, development and a structural arc
Semester-long syllabus that teaches students how to write stories with characters, show development and follow a structural arc.
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Basic newswriting: Learn how to originate, research and write breaking-news stories
Syllabus for semester-long course on the fundamentals of covering and writing the news, including how identify a story, gather information efficiently and place it in a meaningful context.
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