MAPLight.org

Political reporting is getting easier and easier thanks to supporting digital novelty sites that group statistics and numbers, and list interest groups’ involvement in legislature. MAPLight.org is non-profit organization whose idea behind the technology is to connect the inputs and outputs, that is to say, to publicly post politician’s every move from fund raising, to campaign contribution to lobbying contributions. This is heaven for an investigative journalist. Dan Newman, co-founder and executive director of MAPLight.org said that the staff and research interns (free hire?) collect and put together the numbers for us, journalists, to interpret. Journalists, in turn, can utilize these resources to craft complex reports, stories, exposes in the spirit of the true watchdog journalist.