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Nancy Watzman, Managing Editor

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Political TV Ad Archive: PoliticalAdArchive.org

Launch Partners

Fact Checker

American Future Fund: Kasich raised taxes‘

PolitiFact: FALSE

We’ve got data!

JUICY METADATA--Counts for ad airings in tracked markets--sponsor names and type (super PAC, 501(c) etc.--Transcripts, subjects of ads--message of ads (pro, con, mixed)--TV program names, also “news” and “not news”--Some House & Senate ads--currently tracking: NYC, Philly, SF & Washington, DC--past: IA, NH, NC, SC, VA, FL, OH, NV, CO--future: key general election swing states

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Spreadsheets are your friends

Pivot tables are your best friends

Visualizations we love: The Atlantic

Visualizations we love: Fusion

Visualizations we love: The Guardian

The Knight Foundation

Funding by the Knight News Challenge, an initiative of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

The Democracy Fund

The Internet Archive: Archive.org

What is the Internet Archive?It’s not just the Wayback Machine

A 2008 snap shot of www.nmlegis.gov/lcs

The Wayback Machine

More resources

Archive-it – Wayback Machine for 2016 political social media accounts

TV News Archive: archive.org/details/tv

Political ad as seen in TV News Archive

Tracking TV news coverage of debates

Tracking TV news mentions of candidate names

PoliticalAdArchive.org

Other resourcesBeyond the Internet Archive

How to find political ad contracts

Political Ad Sleuth – search by state

Click through to contract at FCC.gov

Following the money wherever it goes

2016: more outside money than ever

*Excluding party spending party spending

Outside Spending by Cycle Through March 31 of Election Year*

Much of it is dark

*Through March 31 of the election year. Excludes party spending.

Prez race: which groups spending on Ted Cruz?

Donors are a click away

Who’s that? What do they want?

“Mercer manages Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund that’s battling the IRS over what the feds contend are tax dodges.”Open Secrets blog, 3/25/16

Profiles of all candidates

Profiles of dark money groups

Federal lobbying

Federal lobbying – and lots more

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