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Local newsrooms across the country are disappearing, but there's at least one potential watchdog left: you! Doing journalism yourself might sound intimidating, but once you know the process, it becomes totally approachable.

== Abstract ==

In this workshop, I ([https://bxroberts.org/bio Brandon Roberts]) will take you through what you need to know to investigate your local government agencies. I'll demystify the investigative process and cover the basic tools every journalist needs to know:

* generating leads
* records requests
* public data sources
* navigating your local government's bureaucracy

This is a live session with time to ask questions about how you can report on your community.

== Registration == 

[https://RegistrationLinkTBD.com registration link info TBD]

== Pre-requisites ==

An interest in reporting on your local government agencies!

== About the host ==

Hello, I'm Brandon Roberts, an independent computational journalist who has worked with ProPublica, the Associated Press and various investigative newsrooms in the US and internationally. I didn't start at large news organizations, though. I got my start running my own investigative newspaper and made a lot of avoidable mistakes in the process. I believe that knowing how to produce rigorous journalism both improves communities and makes people more aware of bias and falehoods in what they read.

== Links ==

More links coming soon...
[https://bxroberts.org About me]