NewsTrain instructor Paul Overberg illustrates how to develop a data state of mind by using the variety of public information available in one town: Kerrville, Texas. Among the documents discussed: Form SF-SAC for audits of local governments and agencies receiving federal funds, IRS Form 990 for tax returns of nonprofits, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board's EMMA website for municipal bond documents, and Form 5500 for annual reports on local companies' pensions and 401(k) plans. Overberg, database editor for USA Today, delivered this presentation as part of the NewsTrain workshop in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 22-23, 2014. Please see an associated handout -- Finding News in an IRS Form 990. For more information about NewsTrain, a traveling workshop for journalists sponsored by Associated Press Media Editors, please visit http://www.apme.com/?AboutNewsTrain.
Developing a Data State of Mind - Paul Overberg - Austin NewsTrain - Aug. 22-23, 2014
1. Developing a
Data State of Mind
Paul Overberg
USA TODAY
@poverberg
NewsTrain Austin
Aug. 22-23, 2014
2. Where we’re going today
Thinking
about data
Groups →
documents/data
→ people
Let’s focus:
1 small town
Set course:
Kerrville
3. Kerrville (pop. 22,663)
Hill Country
Guadalupe River
Kerr County seat
Arts festivals
River tourism
Photo by Flickr user Jimmy Emerson DVM
4. Data on government
376-page annual
budget!
307 FTEs, going
to 305 next year?
Planning $500K
cut due to new
fire/library pact
with county
5. Form SF-SAC
Audits of local
governments,
not-for-profits
getting federal $
Kerrville in
2012: 5 groups
harvester.census.gov/sac/dissem/accessoptions.html
23. Butt Foundation
Page 7: Charitable amounts but no details
Page 45: Details!
24. Butt Foundation
Laity Lodge:
“ecumenical Christian
retreat center”
Youth camps, family
and group retreats
Laity Renewal
Foundation: 39 retreats
in 2012, 1,728 guests
25. Butt Foundation
Founding family
controls all 3
foundations
Foundations
share staff
No independent
directors
Butt Foundation
(Assets: $227 million)
Laity Renewal
(Assets: $14 million)
Laity Lodge
(Assets: $11 million)
27. A few others (2012 assets)
Floyd & Kathleen Cailloux Foundation: $91M
Hal & Charlie Peterson Foundation: $53M
Kathleen Cailloux Family Foundation: $16M
Edward and Sally Futch Foundation: $11M
Roy & Ingaborg Randolph Foundation: $2M
41. Exercises
1. What local group is so important that your
newsroom should start and keep up …
… a Document Dossier!
2. Turn to your handout:
Peterson Regional Medical Center