| Time |
Events |
| Saturday |
| 8:00 a.m. |
Registration |
| 8:30 a.m. |
Story Watch: A tour of the best campaign finance stories from across the country
|
| 9:30 a.m. |
Presidentially speaking: The latest loopholes.
Campaign Finance experts from the Center for Responsive
Politics will talk about your state's role in the
presidential race.
|
| 11:00 a.m. |
Digging into the data: This is the first of the
hands-on sessions. In this introduction to a database
manager, you will learn how to filter out just the
contributions you want to research. We'll use data coded and
cleaned by the Center for Responsive Politics.
|
| 12:30 p.m. |
Lunch on your own |
| 1:30 p.m. |
Your state's story: Local campaign finance
experts will talk about state level contributions, the
trends and the tricks. |
| 3:00 p.m. |
Your state's story II: Continued hands-on
training where reporters learn how to
find who gives and gets the most. We'll use state data and
find examples of trends noted by our panelists.
|
Time |
Events |
| Sunday |
| 9:00 a.m. |
Soft Money: From D.C. to your state: This is a
show-and-tell exercise on how to track the flow of soft
money from national parties to your state and how the state
disburses it. |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Internetting it: Where to find campaign finance information
online. Learn what's truly useful and what to avoid. |
| 11:00 a.m. |
From Cyberspace to you: Downloading and
importing contribution data into something you can analyze. |
| 12:00 p.m. |
Lunch on your own |
| 1:00 p.m. |
Cleanin' it up: We'll show you how to turn the
downloaded data you get into something you can use. We'll teach
you the basics of standardizing fields, splitting names, and
coding contributors. |
| 2:00 p.m. |
Spreadin' it around: In this hands-on
session we'll show you how to find contributors currying
favor with multiple candidates. |
| 2:30 p.m. |
Only on paper: Building your own
database when all you've got are donations on paper. |
| 3:00 p.m. |
Workshop ends |