Will Sommer

Guidestar and the Joy of 990 Forms

No need for this with public documents My tour of journalism books continues with William C. Gaines's Investigative Journalism. Gaines is a more exciting writer than Ullman, the last author I read, and he wisely steers away from technology issues that will soon become outdated. My favorite part of Investigative Journalism, though, is that it taught me about the 990 tax forms non-profits have to file. While journalists at public schools luxuriate in their open records requests, [+]

Interviewing tips from John Ullman’s Investigative Reporting

Bring your books because you're gonna get schooled! The best part about study abroad at the American University of Cairo is the awesome collection of journalism books in the library (that and, you know, culture or whatever). Georgetown doesn't have many books about reporting, since we don't have a journalism major. But AUC does, requiring two shelfs full of books, and I get to wallow in them. So far, I've only read John Ullman's Investigative Reporting: Advanced [+]