Investigative Reporting: Useful Links

 

Automatic FOIA letter generator (from the Student Press Law Center)

PowerReporting.com: A great jumping-off point

Newspaper databases from NIU Libraries: Includes free access to Lexis-Nexis (Academic Universe) if you're logging in from a campus network.

Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc.: Home page for the top organization for investigative journalists.

 

NIU resources

NIU Data Book

Directory of Illinois public colleges and universities (IBHE)

 

Inspiration

Pulitzer Prizes: Read award winning works back to 1995, plus the full lists of winners back to 1917