tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83353847106009683792024-02-21T07:07:35.549-06:00DigCollected coverage from investigative reporter and author Lise OlsenLise Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13375205106681008960noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8335384710600968379.post-21562213878717839432014-05-07T15:02:00.002-05:002014-05-08T16:46:19.273-05:00Cool Tools from ASNE's #hackleaders "Hacking News Leadership" event in Austin<div class="MsoNormal">
At the ASNE Hacking News
Leadership conference this weekend, editors and data gurus from across
the United States showed off tools and shared suggestions, tips and
stories. Here’s some
cool stuff:</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: grey;">1. </span><b>Tableau</b>
– for maps, interactive charts and dashboards. If you’re an IRE member you can
get an inexpensive desktop license.<cite><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #006621; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"> </span></cite><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #006621;"><a href="http://www.tableausoftware.com/">www.tableausoftware.com/</a>
</span>Mark Collette from the Caller Times used it for this project – <a href="http://www.caller.com/immigration">www.caller.com/immigration</a><span style="color: grey;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></b><!--[endif]--><b>Storify</b> – is a cool tool to make stories out of visual
elements; using /slideshow allows them to be converted into a slideshow <a href="https://storify.com/">https://storify.com/</a><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span></b><!--[endif]--><b>Mapbox,
Tilemill</b> were among the tools the
Washington Post used to create this super zip code map – of wealthy and
well-educated <a href="http://americans%20wapo.st/super-zip">Americans wapo.st/super-zip</a><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<!--[endif]-->The Texas
Tribune’s Ethics Explorer used a common spreadsheet in <b>Google docs</b> as
the main reporting tool – everyone dumped data there And it was the basis
of their series<i> Bidness as Usual. </i><a href="http://trib.it/lawmakerexplorer">http://trib.it/lawmakerexplorer</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[endif]--><b>Google fusion
tables</b> lets you build maps and
relationship tables too, like this one from Express News reporter Jason
Buch on connections between alleged moneylaunderers - <a href="https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?snapid=S457047pVkn">https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?snapid=S457047pVkn</a>.
Free<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[endif]--><b>Document Cloud</b> lets you share documents between reporters and
highlight them for readers too – here’s a example <a href="http://www.johntedesco.net/blog/tag/san-antonio/">http://www.johntedesco.net/blog/tag/san-antonio/</a>
- just set up a log on and start experimenting. Free..<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[endif]--><b>Tabula </b>is a free tool for converting pdfs to spreadsheets. It
has a built-in function that allows you to define information on several pages and
export many pages of data all at once. Very cool<br />
<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Timeline:</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b> </b>A new free timeline tool<b> </b></span></span><cite style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><b><span style="color: #006621; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style: normal;">timeline</span></b></cite><cite style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: #006621; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-style: normal;">.knightlab.com/</span></cite></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->9. <b> Make quick videos with the Videolicious i-phone app:</b> <span style="background: white; color: #006621;"><a href="https://videolicious.com/">https://<b>videolicious</b>.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> Try making</span><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;"> Story maps:<a href="http://storymap.knightlab.com/">storymap.knightlab.com</a>; </b><b style="background-color: white; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #006621; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_1237862709">storymaps</a></span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #006621; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; text-indent: 0.5in;"><a href="http://.arcgis.com/">.arcgis.com</a><u> </u></span><br />
<b style="text-indent: -22.5pt;">T The Firetracker app used for California</b><span style="text-indent: -22.5pt;"> wildfires is an app built by reporters and programmers at LA public radio station KPCC</span><b style="text-indent: -22.5pt;"> </b><a href="http://projects.scpr.org/firetracker/colby-fire/" style="font-weight: bold; text-indent: -22.5pt;">http://projects.scpr.org/firetracker/colby-fire/</a><u> </u><b style="text-indent: -22.5pt;">If you're interested in app and web designs/prototypes? </b><span style="text-indent: -22.5pt;">Check out </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> <a href="http://www.invisionapp.com/"><em><b><span style="color: #660099; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;">InVision</span></b></em><span style="color: #660099;">: Free Web & Mobile Prototyping and UI Mockup Tool</span></a> </span><cite style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #006621; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal;">www.invisionapp.com/ or </span></cite><span style="font-size: small;"><cite><span style="color: #006621; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"> </span></cite></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"><a href="https://marvelapp.com/" id="am-b0"><em><b><span style="color: #660099; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;">Marvel</span></b></em><span style="color: #660099;">: Free mobile and web prototyping for designers</span></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_1018789439"> </a></span><cite style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #006621; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><a href="https://marvelapp.com/">https://marvelapp.com/</a></span></cite></div>
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Lise Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13375205106681008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8335384710600968379.post-50958864600208694082014-03-08T20:58:00.004-06:002014-03-08T22:09:43.705-06:00SXSW Top 10 tips - and a bonus 11th one too<br />
Here's a few of the tips and tricks from my SXSW Interactive talk about getting beyond the invisible web, thinking outside the box and using social media and shoe leather to get stories.<br />
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1. <b>Remember Google won't search it all</b>. Maybe not even half of what's out there. Know and use advanced Google searches (like searching within URLs or by file type) and try OTHER search engines, especially for other countries.<br />
2. <b>For social media, search inside Linked In, Facebook, Youtube and Twitte</b>r itself and use advanced searches there too - you can easily uncover connections between people who aren't your friends by comparing their friends or look for relatives of contacts you can't otherwise find via FB; you can find ex-employees of companies you're researching and then send people messages via LI.<br />
3. Sample various<b> Social Media search tool</b>s - they're constantly evolving. Compare results on sites like <a href="http://www.icerocket.com/">http://www.icerocket.com/ </a>with others. Doug Haddix of Kiplinger does a good job of keeping track - check out his presentations on Social Media Sleuthing. Here's one: <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/mandyjenkins/social-media-searching">http://www.slideshare.net/mandyjenkins/social-media-searching</a><br />
4. <b>Remember Twitter itself only searches recent tweets</b>. To go back, you must use another tool.<br />
There are several choices - <a href="http://snapbird.org/">http://snapbird.org/ </a>is an example. To look at your own stuff, check out "all my tweets."<br />
5. <b>Public records are everywhere these days. </b> I start with the assumption that the document is probably somewhere out there - or at least the index or an e-mail of the source will be. A directory with many links is Search Systems <a href="http://publicrecords.searchsystems.net/">http://publicrecords.searchsystems.net/</a>. Even small county courts are increasingly online. Justia has some cool court-related links <a href="http://www.justia.com/">http://www.justia.com/</a><br />
6. <b>Explore the many tools for tracking corporations worldwide</b>, like <a href="http://www.corporationwiki.com/">http://www.corporationwiki.com/ </a> or <a href="http://opencorporates.com/">Open Corporates </a><br />
or <a href="http://investigativedashboard.org/">Investigative Dashboard.</a> For non profits, there are many more - Charity Navigator, <a href="http://www.foundationsearch.com/">Foundation Search</a> are examples.<br />
7. Check out tools in <b><a href="http://www.ancestry.com/">Ancestry.com </a>-</b> a paid but inexpensive site set up for historians and genealogists that can be useful for finding connections between individuals. Use free directories like <a href="http://whitepages.com/">Whitepages.com</a> and<a href="http://www.zabasearch.com/"> Zabasearch,</a> <a href="http://pipl.com/">pipl.com</a> and even <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/">Findagrave.com </a>too.<br />
8.<b> Remember to search not just for one name - but associated names, associated addresses and variations of names (nicknames, misspellings, etc).</b><br />
<b>9. Just because it says so in a document doesn't mean it's true. </b>Sometimes the stories are in exposing the lies.<br />
10. <b>Remember photos and e-mails - private records - can be really useful documents too. </b>Ask sources to e-mail records, ask lawyers to share statements, documents obtained via lawsuits.<br />
11.<b> Protect yourself and your sources - the things we know can be used against us. Margot Williams of ICIJ did a nice summary of tips on this topic from #NICAR14 here: </b><a href="http://www.icij.org/blog/2014/03/beginners-guide-improving-online-security">http://www.icij.org/blog/2014/03/beginners-guide-improving-online-security</a><br />
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<b>MANY MORE COOL STUFF FROM IRE's #NICAR14 here - <a href="http://ire.org/conferences/nicar-2014/tipsheets/?edit-off">http://ire.org/conferences/nicar-2014/tipsheets/?edit-off</a></b><br />
<br />Lise Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13375205106681008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8335384710600968379.post-46950860038118946192013-09-29T07:19:00.002-05:002013-09-30T08:13:39.494-05:00Top immigration story ideas, links and tips from #coveringimmigration event at UTEP - #border2013Ideas were really flowing at the UTEP Immigration reporters' conference this weekend, organized by the Zita Arocha. Here's a quick summary of immigration <b>story ideas</b> suggested by a round table of El Paso-based immigration lawyers and advocates* and a few tips on where to find related data. (For more sources, see my immigration <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8335384710600968379#editor/target=post;postID=9165862022884933236;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=14;src=postname">tipsheet </a>here):<br />
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1. <b>Secure communities controversies: are truly dangerous criminals or harmless relatives of US citizens </b>being deported and detained? <br />
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Data:The ICE FOIA page includes <a href="http://www.ice.gov/foia/library/index.htm#70">secure community data</a> stats by state. Deportation/removal (for criminal/non-criminal by country) also available via ICE <a href="http://www.ice.gov/removal-statistics/">http://www.ice.gov/removal-statistics/</a> too.<br />
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2. <b>Increase in asylum seekers on the southern border- particularly Mexicans</b> <b>who have fled violence. Few apps are granted and there are long waits.</b><br />
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Data: Asylum grants by country is available via USCIS or via Homeland Security's Immigration Yearbook see <a href="http://www.dhs.gov/publication/refugees-and-asylees-2012">http://www.dhs.gov/publication/refugees-and-asylees-2012</a>. Asylum granted/denied by individual immigration judges is available via the non-profit TRAC <a href="http://trac.syr.edu/whatsnew/email.110714.html">http://trac.syr.edu/whatsnew/email.110714.html</a><br />
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3. <b>Human rights issues about the conditions of facilities where asylum-seekers, children, other immigrants are detained.</b><br />
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Data: <a href="http://www.ice.gov/foia/library/index.htm#70">ICE FOIA Library page</a> also includes both audits and ICE contracts of detention facilities. Use FOIA to obtain more data yourself. Request interviews with individual detainees by contacting PIOs w/ICE - you need full names and A numbers<br />
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4. <b>Deaths of immigrants crossing</b> - increasing both in Az and in So Tx because of increased border security/fence etc. that drives crossers to more dangerous/remote areas.<br />
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Data sources include: Sheriff's departments in affected areas, medical examiners and coroners, data on unidentified bodies from state police, consulates can help reach families.<br />
Good examples of reporting on this include the Arizona Daily Star's <a href="http://azstarnet.com/online/databases/border-deaths-database/html_c104ad38-3877-11df-aa1a-001cc4c002e0.html">border death database</a>:<br />
(based on Pima County ME and other data).<br />
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5. <b>The cost of securing the border - human and $$ and the difference between the money spent on the so border vs. the no. border, which remains unfenced.</b><br />
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Data on federal contracts - money paid to build the fence, etc - is available online via <a href="http://www.usaspending.gov/">http://www.usaspending.gov/ </a>and more can be FOIAed. Don't forget local gov'ts/agencies can get Homeland Security grants and obtain more $$from seizures/forfeitures. (Data on Texas forfeitures is available via public information request to the Texas AG's office).<br />
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6. <b>Explode myths - the"Dreamers" still dreaming of reform, immigrants can't automatically adjust status after 10 years, waits for family members/fiances/spouses of US citizens can literally stretch decades </b>due to backlogs and quotas. <b>Consult immigration lawyers to describe laws and find local examples.</b> Searchable directory of AILA members here: <b><a href="http://www.aila.org/content/default.aspx?docid=10180">http://www.aila.org/content/default.aspx?docid=10180</a></b><br />
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<i>*The panel on Sept. 28 at El Paso's La Fe Culture and Technology Center included Fernando Garcia, director of the Border Network for Human Rights, Ruben Garcia, director, Annunciation House, Father Bob Mosher of the Columban Mission Center, Melissa Lopez, executive director of Diocesan Migrant & Refugee Services Inc and Katie Anita Hudak, executive director of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center and was moderated by Estela Reyes Lopez of the Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe.</i><br />
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<br />Lise Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13375205106681008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8335384710600968379.post-66975651139385489432013-09-17T15:37:00.002-05:002013-09-17T15:50:37.131-05:00As the social media world turns...blogs bog down<br />
As the social media world continues to evolve, I am more often using Twitter - @chrondigger and and the Houston Chronicle I-team's <a href="http://blog.chron.com/expose/">Expose Blog</a> to communicate about my work and Facebook for personal and professional posts.<br />
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My latest post on Expose was about a study by the former head of pre-trial services in Harris County who says that his study of 6,000 inmates showed that those who couldn't post bond later got tougher punishments. <a href="http://blog.chron.com/expose/2013/09/harris-co-study-says-if-you-cant-make-bond-you-do-more-time/">Expose Blog - Can't post bond? You'll do more time</a><br />
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Every once in a while, I will continue to update and add to my Dig blog entries. I recently updated my <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8335384710600968379#editor/target=post;postID=9165862022884933236;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=13;src=postname">Immigration Reporting Tips and Links</a> I'll blog about my trip to UTEP for an upcoming immigration conference here too.<br />
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But if you want to regularly follow my work, my favorite stories or my data journalism tips - check me out on Chron.com (or if you're a subscriber on houstonchronicle.com) and follow me on Twitter instead! <br />
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As always, you can contact me via e-mail at <a href="mailto:lise.olsen@chron.com">lise.olsen@chron.com</a><br />
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LiseLise Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13375205106681008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8335384710600968379.post-36210057200805894992013-03-28T13:42:00.000-06:002013-05-19T07:49:42.856-05:00Students dig CAR (computer-assisted reporting)For a visit to an awesome J-school class this week, I got jazzed up reviewing some fabulous examples of ideas students can do for computer-assisted reporting on campus. Here's a few I really like:<br />
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<b>Probes of campus crime, 911 calls - or faked stats: (crime stats can be found online, campus police, local fire/police are other sources)</b><br />
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The Daily Iowan's investigation of how dangerously drunk students were tying up ambulance services in Iowa City: (Records: police reports, 911 calls)<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA4xcubmIbY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA4xcubmIbY</a><br />
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The Red and Black newspaper - University of Georgia paper's investigation of sexual harassment complaints and cover-ups on campus. A lot of great stories. (Campus legal records, interviews)<br />
-<a href="http://www.redandblack.com/news/prominent-uga-professor-faces-restrictions-after-found-in-violation-of/article_00f1b69e-bbcd-5d57-8f27-93f80761fe5d.html">http://www.redandblack.com/news/prominent-uga-professor-faces-restrictions-after-found-in-violation-of/article_00f1b69e-bbcd-5d57-8f27-93f80761fe5d.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.redandblack.com/news/complainants-in-sexual-harassment-investigations-fear-lack-of-protection-w/article_52456691-b3b1-5257-a54e-4045fbc41df9.html">http://www.redandblack.com/news/complainants-in-sexual-harassment-investigations-fear-lack-of-protection-w/article_52456691-b3b1-5257-a54e-4045fbc41df9.html</a><br />
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Sadly an older story by T<span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">he Washington Square News, NYU's student paper, is no longer online - it probed how the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">university deflated campus crime stats by classifying 87% of its residence hall population as "off campus." A newer more generic story reports that the campus is safer: </span><a href="http://nyunews.com/2013/02/12/crime-3/">http://nyunews.com/2013/02/12/crime-3/</a><br />
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<b>Probes of sports team/athletes/stadiums:</b><br />
Victory and Ruins - stories about UW athletes' run-ins with the law: (Compare rosters to court records) <a href="http://seattletimes.com/html/victoryandruins/">http://seattletimes.com/html/victoryandruins/</a><br />
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Who says investigations can't be fun - Check out "What's lurking in your stadium food?"- a fabulous story by my fellow UNL alum Paula Lavigne (Interviews, health department, other docs). <a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=100725/stadiumconcessions">http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=100725/stadiumconcessions</a><br />
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Analysis about sports' scholarships - NY Times:<br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/sports/10scholarships.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/sports/10scholarships.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0</a><br />
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<b>Great web series by students at UTEP and universities that explores immigration</b> from Mexico to the US due to recent violence and the impacts on schools, communities and campus culture.<br />
<a href="http://mexodus.borderzine.com/">http://mexodus.borderzine.com/</a><br />
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<b>Stories about cheating, attendance or grades:</b><br />
Analysis of grade school scores -and evidence of cheating<br />
<a href="http://www.ajc.com/s/news/school-test-scores/">http://www.ajc.com/s/news/school-test-scores/</a><br />
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<b>And the ever-popular faculty salary stories:</b><br />
Some data is even online here: http://www.collegiatetimes.com/databases/salaries<br />
Many related stories:<br />
<a href="http://chronicle.com/article/faculty-salaries-data-2012/131431#id=144050">http://chronicle.com/article/faculty-salaries-data-2012/131431#id=144050</a><br />
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For more story ideas and inspiration - check out the IRE website and archives.<a href="http://www.ire.org/">www.ire.org</a><br />
IRE's campus coverage project has links for students here - <a href="http://campuscoverage.org/">http://campuscoverage.org/</a><br />
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<br />Lise Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13375205106681008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8335384710600968379.post-9010437241504526512013-03-03T10:53:00.003-06:002013-03-03T22:02:23.451-06:00Encuentro Virtual de Periodistas de Investigación -marzo 2013 <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Estoy
encantada ser parte de un encuentro virtual de periodistas de investigación lunes
– un webinario organizado por el Centro Knight para el Periodismo en las Américas <a href="http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/es/00-13049-centro-knight-ofrece-webinario-en-espanol-sobre-periodismo-investigativo">http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/es/00-13049-centro-knight-ofrece-webinario-en-espanol-sobre-periodismo-investigativo</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Voy a
estar hablando de mis técnicas para hacer investigaciones periodísticas y mis fuentes
de inspiración. Entre otros, abajo son alguno sitios que entraron en la discusión
colectiva.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD">Sitios web:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Una
lista de recursos coleccionado por Lise Olsen, Giannina Segnini y José Roberto
de Toledo: <a href="http://toledol.com.br/2009/08/18/links-websites-para-ipys-colpin/">http://toledol.com.br/2009/08/18/links-websites-para-ipys-colpin/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Lista de recursos internacionales hecha por Margot Williams de National Public Radio<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD"><a href="https://gist.github.com/pallih/3268835">https://gist.github.com/pallih/3268835</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Guías sobre el uso de redes social para periodismo – Fasttrack Media<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD"><a href="http://spanish.fastrackmedia.com/documents/">http://spanish.fastrackmedia.com/documents/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Sitios importantes para cobertura de inmigración y la frontera EU-México<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD"><a href="http://liseolsen.blogspot.com/2011/10/tipsheet-for-border-and-immigration.html">http://liseolsen.blogspot.com/2011/10/tipsheet-for-border-and-immigration.html</a></span><br />
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Instituto
de Prensa y Sociedad tiene un archivo enorme de investigaciones periodísticas.
Hay mucha información en su pagina web y por e-mail uno puede conseguir
ejemplares de las notas y cuestionarios llenados por periodistas sobre sus técnicas:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD"><a href="http://www.ipys.org/periodismo_investigacion">http://www.ipys.org/periodismo_investigacion</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
Lamentablemente, no se puede buscar su archivos en linea, pero cuentan con información sobre todos los ganadores del Premio Latinoamericano de Periodismo de Investigación (la lista de 2012 se encuentra acá:<br />
<a href="http://www.transparency.org/news/pressrelease/20121015_periodistas_brasileros_obtienen_el_premio">http://www.transparency.org/news/pressrelease/20121015_periodistas_brasileros_obtienen_el_premio</a>)</div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Archivos
de IRE notas de investigación y
cuestionarios llenado por los periodistas que los escribieron (en ambos casos,
hay que comunicarse con la organización por mayor información):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Base de
datos de notas: <a href="http://www.ire.org/resource-center/stories/">http://www.ire.org/resource-center/stories/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Y de
hojas informativas: <a href="http://www.ire.org/resource-center/tipsheets/">http://www.ire.org/resource-center/tipsheets/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">La
biblioteca virtual del proprio Centro Knight para Periodismo en las Américas:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD"><a href="http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/digitallibrary">http://knightcenter.utexas.edu/digitallibrary</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Libros:</b><br />
<b>Cobertura Segura por Jorge Luis Sierra, excelente periodista Mexicana</b><br />
http://www.amazon.com/Cobertura-Segura-Spanish-Edition-ebook/dp/B008PWSGFQ<br />
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<b><span lang="ES-TRAD">Algunas de los últimos artículos en español por Lise Olsen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">-El
Empleo mas mortal en Tejas – los campos petroleros - 2/17/2013<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD"><a href="http://lavoztx.com/news/2013/feb/17/el-empleo-mas-mortal-en-texas/">http://lavoztx.com/news/2013/feb/17/el-empleo-mas-mortal-en-texas/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Parte de una 2012 serie sobre problemas con las listas de electores y por purgas de ellas:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="color: #1b1b1b; mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">- Barrios afroamericanos, más
afectados por purgas en listas de votantes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD"><a href="http://lavoztx.com/news/2012/oct/03/barrios-afroamericanos-mas-afectados-por-purgas-en/?page=2">http://lavoztx.com/news/2012/oct/03/barrios-afroamericanos-mas-afectados-por-purgas-en/?page=2</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">- Purga
de lista de electores en Texas, plagada
de errores<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD"><a href="http://m.lavoztx.com/news/2012/nov/02/purga-de-lista-de-electores-en-texas-plagada-de-er/">http://m.lavoztx.com/news/2012/nov/02/purga-de-lista-de-electores-en-texas-plagada-de-er/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Ultima
nota en serie sobre redes del trafico humano
en Houston:
<a href="http://www.chron.com/spanish/la-voz/article/Artista-de-Houston-envuelto-en-tr-fico-humano-3569695.php">http://www.chron.com/spanish/la-voz/article/Artista-de-Houston-envuelto-en-tr-fico-humano-3569695.php</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d;">"Workplace deaths drop but not in the oil fields*":<a href="http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Workplace-deaths-drop-but-not-in-the-oil-4266141.php"> http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Workplace-deaths-drop-but-not-in-the-oil-4266141.php</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d;">"Eagle Ford Pay is High but the work can be fatal":</span> <span style="color: #1f497d;"><a href="http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/energy/article/Eagle-Ford-pay-is-high-but-work-can-be-fatal-4285405.php">http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/energy/article/Eagle-Ford-pay-is-high-but-work-can-be-fatal-4285405.php</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f497d;">*This piece also appeared on KBTX in Bryan and in the Beaumont Enterprise..</span>Lise Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13375205106681008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8335384710600968379.post-67600763742256515122013-02-01T19:50:00.001-06:002013-02-05T18:11:29.872-06:00Sex trafficking: the view from H-town<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">As part of a program called <b>"Crimes Against Humanity: Science, Smugglers and Survivors" S</b>at. a.m. @ South Texas College of Law -details here: </span><a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://www.hba.org/home-elements/LM2013.pdf" dir="ltr" href="http://t.co/jOaZNOev" style="background-color: white; color: #0084b4; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://www.hba.org/home-elements/LM2013.pdf"><span class="invisible" style="background-color: white; color: #0084b4; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0px; line-height: 0; text-decoration: none;">http://www.</span><span class="js-display-url" style="background-color: white; color: #0084b4; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">hba.org/home-elements/</span><span class="invisible" style="background-color: white; color: #0084b4; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0px; line-height: 0; text-decoration: none;">LM2013.pdf</span><span class="tco-ellipsis" style="background-color: white; color: #0084b4; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="invisible" style="font-size: 0px; line-height: 0;"> </span>…</span></a> I'll be joining some of Houston's fine legal minds in a discussion how of human trafficking is being detected - and fought in H-town.<br />
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Here's a sampling of trafficking stories I've covered for the Chronicle about<br />
<b>the criminals, their victims and the attorneys and advocates fighting against trafficking:</b><br />
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<b>A series on the regenerative power of a cantina-based trafficking ring run by a man nicknamed "El Gallo" - the rooster.</b><br />
2008 <a href="http://www.chron.com/news/article/Despite-crackdown-Houston-cantina-sex-trade-1646123.php">El Gallo got away...</a><br />
2011 update: <a href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Paper-game-kept-east-Houston-sex-slave-ring-open-1687855.php">2011 update on the ring's activities</a><br />
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<b>2012 story about the Cantina crooner - the ex-husband of a trafficker tied to the same group: <a href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Cantina-crooner-songs-mimicked-real-life-love-and-3536202.php">Cantina Crooner</a></b><br />
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<b>Details of the largest trafficking rescue in the mainland US - in Houston: the Mondragon case</b><br />
<a href="http://www.chron.com/neighborhood/cyfair-news/article/Crackdown-on-Houston-sex-ring-freed-120-women-1790132.php%20.">Mondragon rescue</a><br />
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<b>Why some trafficking victims - including those rescued in the largest bust in the mainland U.S. - never got T visas created by the government to help them</b>... <a href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Visa-problems-put-sex-trafficking-victims-lives-1768768.php">The trouble with T-visas</a><br />
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That work is included in this 2012 book: <a href="http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409439684">http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409439684</a><br />
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<b>A 2012 interview with the State Department's trafficking czar - Luis CdeVaca:</b><br />
<a href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/U-S-ambassador-fights-slavery-sex-trafficking-3987156.php">http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/U-S-ambassador-fights-slavery-sex-trafficking-3987156.php</a><br />
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<b>How a Harris county attorney who used nuisance laws to fight trafficking businesses was brutally attacked in an assault that remains unsolved.</b><br />
<a href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Was-attack-on-assistant-Harris-County-attorney-3498895.php">http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Was-attack-on-assistant-Harris-County-attorney-3498895.php</a><br />
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<b>How federal prosecutors are using forfeiture laws to try to help trafficking victims:</b><br />
<a href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Teenage-victims-of-sex-traffickers-will-get-money-3489677.php">http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Teenage-victims-of-sex-traffickers-will-get-money-3489677.php</a><br />
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<b>Innovative ways local lawyers have used their skills and civil lawsuits to fight human slavery and the international groups behind it:</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.chron.com//news/houston-texas/article/Attorney-helping-human-trafficking-victims-find-1688854.php">http://www.chron.com//news/houston-texas/article/Attorney-helping-human-trafficking-victims-find-1688854.php</a><br />
<a href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Vietnamese-workers-allege-homeland-exploited-them-1691276.php"> http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Vietnamese-workers-allege-homeland-exploited-them-1691276.php</a><br />
<a href="http://www.chron.com/business/article/Lawsuit-alleges-India-workers-lured-to-U-S-on-1686876.php">http://www.chron.com/business/article/Lawsuit-alleges-India-workers-lured-to-U-S-on-1686876.php</a>Lise Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13375205106681008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8335384710600968379.post-80795909065601199042013-01-21T15:44:00.003-06:002013-01-21T15:49:03.309-06:00Secrets of CPRIT's cancer-fighting foundation unveiledThe Houston Chronicle obtained financials and minutes from a tiny foundation that was initially created to supplement scientists' government salaries at the state's $3 billion cancer-fighting agency. Records showed the foundation had been losing money for at least two years, as its own administrative, PR and lobbying costs skyrocketed.<br />
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Highlights of the story appear here: http://www.chron.com/news/health/article/Connecting-the-dots-4211341.php<br />
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Subscribers can read the full text on Houston Chronicle.com<br />
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Cancer-agency-s-foundation-s-outlays-questioned-4208694.php<br />
<br />Lise Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13375205106681008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8335384710600968379.post-6134596855031994092012-06-19T17:14:00.001-05:002013-03-05T15:11:58.520-06:00Who has control over disabled vets assets? Thieves and the bankrupt and gambling addicts, oh myThe Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers' investigation on fraud and theft in a program that oversees the assets of disabled veterans ran in newspapers nationwide on Sunday, including in Houston, San Antonio, San Francisco, Seattle, Albany, Corpus Christi and other cities. Here's a couple of links:<br />
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/06/17/MNQ51P1INF.DTL&tsp=1<br />
<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">http://www.seattlepi.com/national/article/Families-wage-bitter-battles-to-save-vets-from-3636849.php</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><i><b>But that story had its roots in an older Houston Chronicle probe of a $2 million fraud involving the assets of about two dozen veterans in Houston. This is an excerpt from the first story and links to the previous stories in this series.</b></i></span></span><br />
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<b>HOUSTON LAWYER, WIFE ACCUSED OF STEALING FROM VETS: </b><br />
<b>Published in the Houston Chronicle on November 10, 2010</b><br />
<b>AP version still online: http://www.khou.com/news/Houston-lawyer-wife-accused-of-stealing-from-vets-106895918.html </b><br />
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HOUSTON — When Shirley German couldn't get her son's guardian — an attorney
handpicked by the Department of <nobr><a class="FAtxtL" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8335384710600968379#" id="FALINK_1_0_0">Veterans Affairs</a></nobr> — to fork over $250 for Thanksgiving dinner
for the disabled U.S. Marine and his family, she sensed something askew.<br />
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That man, Joe B. Phillips, a 71-year-old Houston lawyer and former VA
employee, now stands accused of stealing more than $2 million from at least 28
Texas veterans and hiding those thefts with faked bank statements, padded
expenses and even imaginary accounts verified with forged signatures, according
to dozens of <nobr><a class="FAtxtL" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8335384710600968379#" id="FALINK_2_0_1">civil
suits</a></nobr> and a 2010 federal court indictment.<br />
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Among the Houston victims was German's son, Leland Spencer, 39, a Marine who
had been scheduled to be shipped to Iraq in 1991 when he collapsed in a coma and
nearly died of a crippling disease at a U.S. military base on Okinawa. "My son
paid a price and the rest of the <nobr><a class="FAtxtL" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8335384710600968379#" id="FALINK_3_0_2">disabled veterans</a></nobr> did, too and I'm furious they have to go
through something like this," German said.<br />
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<b>HOUSTON RIPOFFS OF DISABLED VETS WENT UNDETECTED FOR MORE THAN A DECADE:</b><br />
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Disabled-veterans-in-Texas-fleeced-by-3571559.php</span></span>Lise Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13375205106681008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8335384710600968379.post-59573881865553506942012-05-04T17:32:00.000-05:002013-10-09T10:05:03.308-05:00Which 120 Americans have been killed in Mexico? And why?Only 35 Americans were reported murdered in all of
Mexico in 2007 - 120 died there last year.<br />
That's a huge increase, though the risks remain small given that an estimated 500,000 to 1 million U.S. citizens
live in Mexico, about 14 million visited there last year.<br />
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A 2012 update is here:
<a href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Number-of-Americans-killed-in-Mexico-continues-to-3518659.php">http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Number-of-Americans-killed-in-Mexico-continues-to-3518659.php</a><br />
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But the U.S. Department of State won't tell us what they know about who died - or why..<br />
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In 2008-09, I spent months trying to mine Mexican public records, civil rights organizations, university researchers and newspaper archives to learn the names of those Am murder victims and determine what kinds of patterns contributed to an increasing number of murders in Mexico, particularly in border areas. The U.S. Department of State provides updated figures every six
months - but doesn't identify individuals or tell any of their compelling
stories.<br />
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These cases reflect a small but important subset of a continuing wave of
organized crime violence that has now affected many formerly very safe
Mexican cities and states. As a result of my research, I found even in 2009 that many Americans had been slain by cartels because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time: fathers picking up their children; a woman going to get her hair done, children visiting grandparents, teens grabbing a burger or visiting family.<br />
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My original investigation is here:
<a href="http://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Killers-of-Americans-south-of-border-rarely-caught-1741056.php">http://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Killers-of-Americans-south-of-border-rarely-caught-1741056.php</a> <br />
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Last year, the number of U.S. citizen murders continued to grow. .If you read other papers, you might assume the only American recently killed in
Mexico was a jet skier shot by gunmen on a lake on the Texas-Mexico
border. That one story got more coverage than almost any other murder, in part because the body remains missing. However, that same week, a U.S. college student visiting family in Mexico also was killed in a bus robbery-murder that got almost no coverage. The Houston Chronicle (and its sister paper the Express-News) are the only newspapers that have regularly reported and investigated State Department stats to learn about these U.S. citizen murders. <br />
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<br />Lise Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13375205106681008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8335384710600968379.post-90420284432771070462012-02-21T17:07:00.000-06:002012-02-21T17:07:25.141-06:00Stagnant Voter Rolls - despite rapid growth in H-town<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">As our country grows, voter registration in some counties - like Harris County, the nation's third largest - has been surprisingly stagnant. I reported in this Jan 29 story (later posted on chron.com) how population boomed from 2006-2012 yet registered voters numbers stayed about the same. This is a trend I'm continuing to explore.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Voters-rolls-stay-stagnant-as-population-surges-2830304.php" target="_blank" title="blocked::http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Voters-rolls-stay-stagnant-as-population-surges-2830304.php">http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Voters-rolls-stay-stagnant-as-population-surges-2830304.php</a> -- “</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">There's also a lawsuit that was recently filed regarding voter registration issues across Texas and in Galveston County.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Voting-rights-group-files-suit-over-state-3313076.php" target="_blank" title="blocked::http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Voting-rights-group-files-suit-over-state-3313076.php">http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Voting-rights-group-files-suit-over-state-3313076.php</a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span></div>Lise Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13375205106681008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8335384710600968379.post-26110196925768131602011-12-02T14:31:00.000-06:002011-12-02T14:31:09.147-06:00Sad epilogue to 1970s serial killingsAfter 40 years, we still don't know exactly how many boys serial killer Dean Corll, dubbed the Candy Man, and his teen henchmen caught and killed in Houston the 1970s though it was at least 29.<br />
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This week I wrote about another ID of a victim - a boy who went missing after leaving home to go to work at a shoe store in the Northwest Mall in about 1972.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/After-decades-another-serial-killer-victim-2336666.php?utm_source=twi</span></span>Lise Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13375205106681008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8335384710600968379.post-33312016425602480772011-11-28T11:30:00.000-06:002011-11-28T11:30:48.764-06:00Murdered couple remains unidentified after 30 yearsOf the 400 unidentified bodies in Harris County's cold case files, some of the most confounding involve two people killed together whose identities remain lost in time. One of the most compelling is a pair of teens whose corpses were found, freshly murdered, in early January 1981.<br />
This is their story - <br />
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Investigators-hope-DNA-provides-answers-in-2296253.php<br />
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It's part of an occasional series we've done this year on the 400 unknown dead here - and efforts to use a new grant to try to identify some of them through DNA. Previous stories led to the identification of two people.Lise Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13375205106681008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8335384710600968379.post-52553842464270108382011-11-04T15:54:00.000-06:002011-11-04T15:54:57.415-06:00An estimated 50,000 Texans are in guardianships.Meet one of them:An estimated 50,000 Texans are in guardianships. Helen Hale is one of them...<br />
A family dispute resulted in her being placed under the care of a court-appointed guardian.<br />
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Guardians-for-the-elderly-and-disabled-paid-2251312.php<br />Lise Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13375205106681008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8335384710600968379.post-18898303617544209232011-11-02T13:09:00.000-06:002011-11-02T13:09:26.998-06:00Four years later...I'm still waiting for a state department response to an FOIATracey Eaton, a former HChron metro editor and ex-foreign correspondent, has an initiative to try to get records out of the State Department regarding spending in Cuba (as well as other fed agencies) See: .http://cubamoneyproject.org/<br />
His efforts remind me that the State Department never responded to my own request for copies of the database of Americans killed worldwide - a record it keeps and distributes, in part, online.Lise Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13375205106681008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8335384710600968379.post-91658620228849332362011-10-10T13:00:00.001-05:002013-09-09T11:58:44.892-05:00Tipsheet for the border and immigration coverage - 2013<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;">
<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">CONTACTS, STRATEGIES AND RESOURCES FOR BORDER AND IMMIGRATION<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>COVERAGE</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Lise Olsen, Investigative Reporter, </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">The <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Houston</place></city> Chronicle</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="mailto:Lise.olsen@chron.com">Lise.olsen@chron.com - e-mail me with additions/updates/corrections</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">updated February 2013</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">You’ll find press releases, of course, but also helpful annual yearbooks with specific</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Homeland Security Investigations</b>, formerly called U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (formerly INS and customs)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Links to all federal courts are at: </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.uscourts.gov/">http://www.uscourts.gov/</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">These include federal district, appeals and bankruptcy courts. You can search federal court cases for defendants’ names or company names nationwide and also search by statute (i.e. with the code number for illegal re-entry or other immigration-related cases). It makes sense to get to know the federal prosecutor and federal public defender in your area who handle immigration issues.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Get a log-on and you can get court records for pennies a page – and view case activity and get attorneys’ names, phones and e-mails for free:</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">A non-profit that has successfully sued the U.S. Justice Department for tons of data and makes it available to reporters and researchers. Some of it is free, the rest you get for a</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">subscription fee. The ICE and USA (U.S. attorney) prosecutions tools allow you to quickly check out your region's federal enforcement efforts, spot recent trends and compare them to other regions/states. There is a whole section on immigration courts and you can get reports on immigration judges too.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">It oversees the immigration courts (which aren’t part of the ICE, etc. though they are part of the Department of Justice). Among other things, there’s a pretty up-to-date report on</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">http://judiciary.senate.gov/about/subcommittees/immigration.cfm </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Members of congress can assist with getting information on individual cases, or statistics on INS manpower, etc You can use the service Thomas to keep up with bills: </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">http://thomas.loc.gov</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">. A list of bills related to September 11</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 8pt;">th </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">is posted at <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/home/terrorleg.htm">http://thomas.loc.gov/home/terrorleg.htm</a></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">FBI Offices</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> – this page has a link to all of them. Each has a press officer and a searchable archive of press releases.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The FBI is also the best source of crime statistics for all <place w:st="on"><state w:st="on">border states</state></place> and cities (though state governments and individual cities have this too.)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;">U.S.border states: </span></b><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Texas, Arizona, California, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>New Mexico<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Mexican border states: </span></b><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Chihuahua,Coahuila, Sonora </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;"><b><u>Frontera List and related links</u> – collected and updated by Molly Molloy, an author and researcher at New Mexico State University </b>: <a href="http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/bord/laguia/">http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/bord/laguia/</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">Molly Molloy also<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>runs one of the best border list-serves (in English). To receive it, e-mail her at mollymolloy@gmail.com Now available on social media too.</span></div>
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<country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mexico</span></place></country-region><span style="font-size: 12pt;">’s state department, the Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Mexican Freedom of Information Act information, sample letters, explanation of the law and database of requests. You don’t have to be a citizen to use it and can register under your own name or under Mickey Mouse if you want.</span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Lista de comisiones </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.senado.gob.mx/assets/com.pdf"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">http://www.senado.gob.mx/assets/com.pdf</span></a></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Procurador General de la Republica</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> (PGR – the Mexican Attorney General/Department of Justice). Has an extensive archive of press relases and summaries of stores from around the Républica Méxicana.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Instituto Ciudadano de Estudios sobre la inseguridad</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.icesi.org.mx/publicaciones/comunicados/conferencia_situacion_mundial_delincuencia.asp">http://www.icesi.org.mx/publicaciones/comunicados/conferencia_situacion_mundial_delincuencia.asp</a> This is the best site by far for Mexican crime statistics and for citizens’ survey data on crime – very interesting information.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Center for Border Students and Promotion of Human Rights</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> (CEFPRODHAC) – a non-profit with a great archive on human rights issues on the border – including statistics, complaints and archives from all across the border. However it's web site is not as reliable as it was in prior years. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Based in </span><place style="font-size: 12pt;" w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Reynosa</city></place><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. </span><a href="http://www.derechoshumanosenmexico.org/" style="font-size: 12pt;">http://www.derechoshumanosenmexico.org/</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">An example of resources available is this list of murders in Tamalipas from 2009: <a href="http://www.derechoshumanosenmexico.org/pages/estadisticas/asesinatos-2009.php">http://www.derechoshumanosenmexico.org/pages/estadisticas/asesinatos-2009.php</a></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Key journalism websites:</span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Many other news sites exist, but these are some of the oldest and most reliable and offer investigative stories from <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">El Paso</place></city> to the Pacific.</span></i></b></div>
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<city w:st="on"><place w:st="on"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tijuana</span></place></city><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Press<u> <a href="http://www.tijuanapress.com/">http://www.tijuanapress.com/</a></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">AFNT<u> </u><a href="http://afntijuana.info/blog/">http://afntijuana.info/blog/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Frontera <a href="http://www.frontera.info/Home.aspx">http://www.frontera.info/Home.aspx</a></span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Crónica de Baja California – </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.lacronica.com/"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;">http://www.lacronica.com/</span></a></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">(sister paper to Frontera and to El Imparcial in <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Hermosillo</city></place>)</span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;">San Diego Union </span><span lang="ES-CL" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-CL;"><a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/">http://www.signonsandiego.com/</a></span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;">El Diario de Juarez <a href="http://www.diario.com.mx/">http://www.diario.com.mx/</a> (with sister papers in Chihuahua and in El<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paso)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">La Polaka - </span><a href="http://lapolaka.com/" style="font-size: 12pt;">http://lapolaka.com/</a></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;">El Paso Times:</span><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <a href="http://www.elpasotimes.com/">http://www.elpasotimes.com/</a></span></span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;">El Imparcial<a href="http://www.elimparcial.com/"> http://www.elimparcial.com/</a></span></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Arizona Border reporter blog – Michael Marizco http://borderreporter.com/</span></div>
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<place w:st="on"><state w:st="on"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Arizona</span></state></place><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Daily Star; <a href="http://azstarnet.com/">http://azstarnet.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And its database of border deaths: </span><a href="http://regulus.azstarnet.com/borderdeaths/" style="font-size: 12pt;">http://regulus.azstarnet.com/borderdeaths/</a></div>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Narconews blog:</span><a href="http://www.narconews.com/"><span lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;">http://www.narconews.com/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #303030; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.nmsu.edu/~frontera/">Frontera NorteSur</a> another compilation site of <country-region w:st="on">U.S.</country-region> <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Mexico</place></country-region> Border News <a href="http://www.nmsu.edu/~frontera/">http://www.nmsu.edu/~frontera/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">El Universal – <country-region w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Mexico</place></country-region>’s largest daily with a huge archive of stories that is free.</span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-AR;"><a href="http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/noticias.html">http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/noticias.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">La Jornada– a smaller but important Mexico City-based daily with a free searchable archive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/">http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Deaths in U.S. Immigration detention centers posted on the New York Times website</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/nyregion/05detain-list.htm">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/nyregion/05detain-list.htm</a></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Investigative Reporters and Editors</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> – <a href="http://www.ire.org/">www.ire.org</a></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">IRE en español</span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CL" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-CL;"><a href="http://www.ire.org/esp/index.html"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">http://www.ire.org/esp/index.html</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">A great journalists’ listserve and website with public information and information on attacks on journalists</span></div>
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<span lang="ES-CL" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: ES-CL;"><a href="http://www.cepet.org/"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://www.cepet.org/</span></a></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">: An association of editors and publishers in the <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">Americas</country-region></place> that monitors and provides help after attacks on journalists and lobbies for better press laws. (Spanish and English)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">PIO: 202-216-2404 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ask who are AILA members or board members in your area. AILA also has press releases on national issues on their website.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">The American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration </span></b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.abanet.org/publicserv/immigration/home.html">http://www.abanet.org/publicserv/immigration/home.html</a> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Tel: (202) 662-1698 The ABA is a good source of information for keeping up with issues and for finding groups who handle immigration cases in your state.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">federal legislation as well as immigration groups all over the <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">U.S.</country-region></place> at this page: <a href="http://www.aclu.org/immigrants/gen/11649res20020219.html">http://www.aclu.org/immigrants/gen/11649res20020219.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">This is a think tank devoted exclusively to the research and policy analysis of all</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">issues, from the smallest border papers to the New York Times. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">http://www.cis.org/immigrationnews.html </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">-- link for joining the mailing list.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Federation for Immigration Reform </span></b><span style="color: blue; font-size: 12pt;">http://www.fairus.org/ </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">Tel: (202) 328-7004<b></b></span></div>
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Lise Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13375205106681008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8335384710600968379.post-77816243607603244642011-09-30T13:47:00.000-05:002011-09-30T13:48:51.572-05:00Killer's claims about the "Eleven who went to Heaven"I have posted a new page with links to my stories about the <strong>1970s serial killings</strong> of teenaged girls on a new page. It contains links to stories about claims made to me in letters and interviews by convicted murdered Edward Harold Bell, a Texas prison inmate, from July to September 2011.Many hope that the statements made by Bell, 72, will help clarify many unsolved murders from the 1970s. Victims families and friends have contacted me this week to say they hope his statments will be either verified or disproven before Bell himself dies.Lise Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13375205106681008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8335384710600968379.post-8075929205355460302011-09-23T16:25:00.000-05:002011-09-23T16:27:32.293-05:00Weird and weirder - Edward Harold BellA 72-year-old prisoner named Edward Harold Bell is the subject of my upcoming story on Sunday in the <em>Houston Chronicle.</em><br />
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I got interested in a string of unsolved teen girl murders in the 1970s as the result of stories I did in May and June on forensic anthropologists' efforts to help identify approximately 400 unknown Jane and John Does in the Harris County public cemetery. Among other things, I learned that one unknown teenaged "boy's" body might really have belonged to a murdered girl named Rhonda Renee Johnson. I spent weeks trying to find her family to see if that mystery could be solved through DNA.... her brother is trying to help.<br />
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That story led me to a Galveston Police Officer's theory that a man named Bell might have killed Johnson and others... More will be coming out soon about Bell and I'll post information here.Lise Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13375205106681008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8335384710600968379.post-55379831149978383122011-09-08T11:47:00.000-05:002011-09-08T11:47:22.573-05:00Perry, privacy and clemencyPatricia Hart just did an updated story on Perry's "shroud of secrecy" - a habit of keeping public documents to himself, resisting release of his own calendars, travel expenses, e-mails and clemency reviews in response to public disclosure requests.<a href="http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Perry-has-wovenshroud-of-secrecyas-Texas-governor-2144596.php">http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Perry-has-wovenshroud-of-secrecyas-Texas-governor-2144596.php</a><br />
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I keep getting asked for stories I wrote about Perry's clemency reviews in 2009.<br />
This 2009 story was based on information from the parole board, state archives and Perry's office (all very limited) about his reviews of requests from inmates executed during his tenure gov: <a href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Clemency-rare-on-Texas-death-row-1547457.phpstories">http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Clemency-rare-on-Texas-death-row-1547457.phpstories</a><br />
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The Chronicle later filed a lawsuit under the Public Discloure Act to try to get more information, since documentations on clemency reviews for executed offenders was made public under Gov. Bush (and Attorney General John Cornyn, now a US Senator). That lawsuit is still pending.<br />
<a href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Chronicle-sues-Perry-over-clemency-report-1748771.php">http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Chronicle-sues-Perry-over-clemency-report-1748771.php</a>Lise Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13375205106681008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8335384710600968379.post-38845640091708763582011-08-10T15:54:00.000-05:002011-08-10T15:54:48.641-05:00Lonely bonesNothing to me is quite so haunting as a long unsolved murder case - or an unidentified body.<br />
This summer I have gotten caught up in following a story that begins with a so-called "boy's" body found, headless, in a local marsh back in September 1971.<br />
Here's the story - 21 bodies and no clear answers:<br />
<a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7667527.html">http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7667527.html</a><br />
Here are the other stories that led me to this tale, which continues to unfold.<br />
Harris County's 400 John and Jane Does:<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2011/05/harris-cold-cases/">http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2011/05/harris-cold-cases/</a><br />
Two tips that led to identifications resulted from that first piece<br />
<a href="http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2011/05/harris-cold-cases/">http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2011/05/harris-cold-cases/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7626309.html">http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7626309.html</a></span>Lise Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13375205106681008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8335384710600968379.post-25707585030232608022011-07-15T10:16:00.000-05:002013-09-17T15:48:25.528-05:00Getting started in investigative reporting- it's never too soonWhen you're just getting started in journalism, getting names spelled right and meeting your deadlines can be a huge challenge. But if your dream is investigative reporting - fighting corruption, righting wrongs, helping fix things, afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicated - it's never to early to start.<br />
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Here are some things you can do:<br />
1. <strong>Really listen</strong> Put down your notebook at the end of an interview and say - is there anything else you want to tell me? Or: Is there anything else I should know?<br />
2. <strong>Show up early and leave late</strong> for interviews and press conferences. Look around and be curious. <br />
3. <strong>Listen to your instincts</strong>. Does something seem wrong? Is someone lying to you? Pay attention to your own responses.<br />
4. <strong>Have conversations - not just interviews</strong> with sources: Go out to lunch or coffee or ride around in a car with them and listen to them talk. You'll find the bigger stories behind the stories.<br />
5<strong>. Drop by:</strong> If you have a beat that includes covering people who work in a government office, visit different people's offices to chat when you have free time. Or if this is impossible, ask for a tour or pick up a phone directory or hang out in the break room and leave your card with everyone you meet.<br />
6. <strong>Know the players:</strong> Figure out who are the experts , the gossips, the whistleblowers and who really has the power and get to know all of these people.<br />
7. <strong>Be organized:</strong> keep a list of tips you get from sources (since hopefully you'll have more than you can tackle), record your source's phone numbers, cell numbers, e-mails, kids' names and other info in your contact files. <br />
8. <strong>Keep project notes separate from your daily stories: </strong>Set up a folder in Windows/Mac named for your project. Keep your interview notes, electronic documents, "to do lists" and story memos there.<br />
9. <strong>Use placeholder drafts -</strong> Periodically write up a summary - what I call a placeholder draft - of what you know so far, your best stuff and a list of things you still need to do. That way, if you have to set aside your reporting for a while (or even for a long time) you won't lost time or forget where you were.<br />
10.<strong> Set goals: </strong>Often the most you can do as a beginner, is try to tackle one difficult story every six months or so. This means you tackle that story little by little in between other assignments. A goal helps you stay motivated.<br />
11. <strong>Look for mentors</strong> - this might be your editor, someone on an investigative team or even someone in another news organization - who will read your stories, talk to you about your project and give advice. A good mentor will improve your story and help you get better too.<br />
12. <strong>Join Investigative Reporters & Editors or a similar journalism organization</strong>. Through IRE I have found many mentors, and have used tipsheets and story archives to figure out how to tackle investigations.Lise Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13375205106681008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8335384710600968379.post-38680568200527463212011-05-31T13:37:00.000-05:002011-05-31T13:37:41.986-05:00Unnamed, unsolved<span style="font-size: x-small;"> This weekend I returned to the theme of the nameless dead - an estimated 40,000 corpses remain unidentified nationwide - to report on an effort in Harris County by forensic anrhropologists to find new leads to decide which unnamed bodies to exhume (an effort funded by a NIJ grant..)<br />
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Here's the link to the story, a video and a map - an interactive database will be up soon.<br />
<a href="http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2011/05/harris-cold-cases/" title="http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2011/05/harris-cold-cases/"><span style="font-family: Arial;">http://blog.chron.com/newswatch/2011/05/harris-cold-cases/</span></a><br />
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</span>Lise Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13375205106681008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8335384710600968379.post-41754040840676752782011-03-04T15:31:00.000-06:002011-03-04T15:32:40.551-06:00Sex Trafficking In Houston - over and over and over again...A problem that doesn't seem to go away, Susan Carroll and I again wrote about a ring of traffickers who keep popping up in the same seedy Clinton Dr. cantinas.http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7448566.html<br />
Here's my 2008 story on the same ring - part of a series on sex trafficking.<br />
<a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/immigration/5987854.html" onmousedown="UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "83916", event, bagof(null));" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3b5998;">http://www.chron.com/disp/stor<wbr><span class="word_break"></span></span>y.mpl/special/immigration/5987<wbr><span class="word_break"></span>854.html</a>Lise Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13375205106681008960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8335384710600968379.post-3346188746149309872011-01-07T17:05:00.000-06:002011-01-07T18:33:30.629-06:00Join me to dig in...As an investigative reporter at the Houston Chronicle, I dig up information in a lot of different areas, mostly focussing on Houston and Texas. This blog is an effort to organize major stories I've written over the years by topic to communicate with people who might be interested in joining me in unearthing information in very different topic areas, including:<br />
- Probate court/guardianship issues<br />
- Federal judicial ethics and misconduct<br />
- Prescription drug abuse<br />
- Americans murdered in Mexico<br />
- Police shootings<br />
I will more regularly update my facebook page and use this blog for sharing investigative stories and updates.<br />
Your posts and ideas are welcome in English, Spanish or French. Or if you prefer, e-mail me privately at <a href="mailto:lise.olsen@chron.com">lise.olsen@chron.com</a>Lise Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13375205106681008960noreply@blogger.com