Today is lab day

Hello. Just a reminder that today is an optional lab day.

Past converged projects

Converged examples:
One student focused on photos and charts.

This student focused on a chart and a map.

Another student focused on maps and charts.

Budgets

Class Today

Public Affairs Reporting will not be held
on Tuesday, April 13th.

I will be available by email if you have not yet pitched your story idea.

Use the time to work on your final beat story.

Budget Resources

* Dave Herzog's "Twenty tips for covering and writing about budgets": http://www.projo.com/words/tip408.htm
* Dave Herzog's "Writing Better Budget Stories": http://www.projo.com/words/tip415.htm
beat and check out the "government info" links): http://www.powerreporting.com
* Robert Niles' "Statistics Every Writer Should Know": http://www.robertniles.com/stats/
* George Landau's percent-change calculator: http://www.newsengin.com (click on "free tools")
* Guidestar's "Donor's guide to the charitable universe": http://www.guidestar.org/index.html
* "The Spreadsheet Page": http://www.j-walk.com/ss/index.html
* Census Bureau information on state and local government finances, school spending, etc.: http://www.census.gov/econ/www/go0200.html
* National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting: http://www.nicar.org

Exam II

Hello. Just a reminder that your second exam in PAR is tomorrow, Thursday. Review your notes and the readers.

There are no make-up exams. Good luck!

Open lab day

Hello. Just a reminder that today is an optional open lab day to work on your multi-media final project.

Civil Courts

Here are the records for Seminole County foreclosures. Here is foreclosure process.

Here is Orange County foreclosure information.

Here is information about purchasing Orange County Court records.