Useful Links

  Journalism organizations

• Investigative Reporters and Editors:
  http://www.ire.org
• European centre for CAR:
  http://eccar.org
• Collaboration with and assistance from journalists in other countries,
  Global Investigative Journalism Network:
  www.globalinvestigativejournalism.org  
  http://www.poynter.org

  Journalism books

• The Story-Based Inquiry method helps journalists and researchers managing (complex) investigations, and producing powerful stories:
  http://www.storybasedinquiry.com

  Tip sheets; Libraries; Archives

• Three libraries:
  http://search.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/sv/index.html
• Archives Portal 17 European countries:
  http://www.archivesportaleurope.eu/index.action
• Wikileaks search:
  http://cablesearch.org
• GIJC tip sheets:
  http://www.gijc2010.ch/en/tip-sheets
• Displaying (and finding) data:
  http://opendata.socrata.com
• Data visualization tools

 Displaying (and finding) data – ManyEyes.org is an easy open source application for creating simple data visualizations. You also can access data uploaded by others:
  http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes
• Investigative Dashboard:
  http://www.investigativedashboard.org or http://www.datatracker.org/

  Law; Ethics

• Freedom of information records laws in Europe:
  http://www.wobbing.eu
• The Fundamental Law on Freedom of Expression, Sweden:
  http://www.riksdagen.se/templates/R_Page____6316.aspx
• Poynter. Online Journalism Ethics: Guidelines from the Conference:
  http://www.poynter.org/uncategorized/80445/online-journalism-ethics-guidelines-from-the-conference
• Code of Ethics for Press, Radio and Television in Sweden (Ombudsman):
  http://www.po.se/english/code-of-ethics
• Rules of professional conduct:
  http://www.sjf.se/portal/page?_pageid=53,9441115&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
• Freedom of  information. Public records and accountability laws by country (World Bank)
:
  https://www.agidata.org/pam/ProfileListByAbc.aspx
• Lawsuits filed in US federal court:
  http://www.pacer.gov

  Property; Taxes

• Ireland:
  http://www.landregistry.ie/eng/
• UK:
  http://www.landregistry.gov.uk/wps/portal/Property_Search

  People search

• http://pipl.com
• http://www.namebase.org

  Business; Farming

• EU farm subsidies:
  http://farmsubsidy.org
• French corporations:
  http://www.infogreffe.fr/infogreffe/index.jsp
• SEC, US, Publicly traded corporate quarterly and annual reports:
  http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm
• Corporate and institutional sponsors of foreign travel by members of congress: http://www.legistorm.com/trip_browse_by_sponsor/index/letter/I/page/1/sort/sponsor/type/asc.html
• CCR – Companies doing business with the US government:
  https://www.bpn.gov/CCRSearch/Search.aspx

  www

• Who owns the website:
  http://www.whois.sc
• Internet archive – old versions of webpages:
  http://www.archive.org/index.php
• Twitter searching and tracking
Tweet deck:
  http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta
• Digital Methods Initiative:
  https://www.digitalmethods.net/Digitalmethods/WebHome



  Crime

• US Dept. of Justice:
  http://www.justice.gov

  European Union

• Lobbying:
  http://europa.eu/transparency-register

  Multi subject

• Meg Smith, Washington Post:
  http://www.delicious.com/megsmith
• Economic, environmental and military database by country: 
http://ujima-project.org
• Open Data Directory, random collection of data sets from many sources and country published by governments, companies, etc.: http://open.mflask.com

  Various

• Flight tracker:
  http://flightaware.com
• Non-profits:
  http://www2.guidestar.org

  Corruption:

• The QOG Institute conducts and promotes research on the causes, consequences and nature of good governance and Quality of Government (QoG) - that is, trustworthy, reliable, impartial, uncorrupted and competent government institutions:
  http://www.qog.pol.gu.se