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Join us to learn the latest on covering crucial campaign finance issues. The session will be co-led by OpenSecrets, a leading journalism nonprofit focused on covering federal and state campaign finance issues as well as following dark money, and Newmark J-School’s Andy Lehren and Ben Lesser.
This hands-on workshop will cover how to:
- Determine which candidates in your coverage area are raking in the most donations and whether their fundraising operations are working well.
- Find out whether candidates in your coverage region are dependent on out-of-state donations.
- Uncover the largest donors to campaigns and whether they are relying on a few wealthy contributors.
- Reveal connections between donations and special interest lobbying and government contracting.
You will need to bring a laptop.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Community Media.
Instructors
Anna Massoglia is the editorial and investigations manager at OpenSecrets. Her research areas also include foreign influence and investigations into opaque spending networks. Anna holds degrees in political science and psychology from North Carolina State University and a J.D. from the University of the District of Columbia School of Law.
Brendan Glavin is Deputy Research Director at OpenSecrets, which he joined from the former Campaign Finance Institute (CFI)/National Institute on Money in Politics (NIMP). He started work in the money in politics space with CFI in 2001. He has worked extensively with federal campaign data, including congressional and presidential campaign donor data, modeling public financing proposals, and analyzing state and federal independent expenditures. He also worked on creating CFI’s database of state laws. Brendan graduated from Colgate University with degrees in political science and history.
Andy Lehren is a veteran investigative reporter and long-time adjunct at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and Editorial Director for the Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism. This summer he has been conducting extensive workshops for Stanford University’s Big Local News, working with independent newsrooms around the country on covering elections. He is also doing work for Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism and Inside Climate News. He is formerly a long-time investigative reporter and editor for The New York Times and NBC News Investigations, and a Pulitzer Center senior fellow. New York Times investigative reporter. His numerous honors include the Peabody, Polk, Emmy, two Columbia-duPont awards and four Investigative Reporters & Editors awards. He contributed to a Pulitzer-winning investigation and was part of a Pulitzer finalist collaboration.
Ben Lesser is an award-winning investigative reporter and editor for Reuters, and teaches investigative reporting at the CUNY Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. He previously worked for The New York Daily News and The (Bergen County, NJ) Record.