FOIA

• The Art of Access, by David Cullier, is a great book for introducing you to techniques and approaches – ways to get to “yes”. It will be required in the data reporting class if you take it.

• Cronkite School’s FOIA resource pages

Numbers in the newsroom

• Slides from class
• Handout with common formulas for change, percents, etc.

Excel refresher

We’ll work from a few tutorials:

• Quick Excel refresher. Look here for keyboard shortcuts and short clips reminding you how to do basic navigation.
• Get used to the concept of tidy data)

Excel files we’ll work with:

• The budget from Phoenix
• An example of a homemade database