Best Practices & Tools for Reporters
TIP SHEETS
- How to Improve Television Political Coverage 2008
- Covering Debates: Bringing community voices to debates. Getting candidates beyond rehearsed answers. What to do when a candidates refuse to debate.
- Candidate Profiles & Interviews: The best places to interview candidates for profile stories. How to get the community involved in interviews. Getting the candidate beyond rehearsed answers.
- Free Air Time: Creative ways to use free time. How much free time are stations giving the candidates?
- Ad Watch Coverage: How to produce effective ad watch stories. What is the ad watch story’s place in the newscast?
WEB RESOURCES FOR POLITICAL REPORTERS
- Contacting the Congress: A very up-to-date database of congressional contact information.
- U.S. House of Representatives: Lists all current Representatives and their websites.
- U.S. Senate: Lists all current Senators and their websites.
- Office of the Clerk: Has a searchable database of current legislation, lists of members by state and by alphabetical order, and contact information for all current Representatives.
- National Governors Association: Has state-by-state listing of current governors (and spouses), searchable database and contact information.
- U.S. Newspaper List: A state-by-state list of all newspapers, radios and TV stations.
- Google Directory of Political Science Departments: An incomplete but reference-worthy page for finding political science department websites for major universities.
- Google Directory of Political Parties (State-by-State)
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