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Jennifer LaFleur is ProPublica's director of computer-assisted reporting (CAR). She was the CAR editor starting in 2003 for The Dallas Morning News, where she worked on the investigative team. She has directed CAR at the San Jose Mercury News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and was IRE’s first training director. She has won awards for her coverage of disability, legal and open government issues. Ms. LaFleur is the co-author of IRE’s Mapping for Stories: A Computer-Assisted Reporting Guide.

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Many Gov’t Agencies Still Missing Required Transparency Sites

Feb. 24, 2010, 1:55 p.m.

Agencies Open to the Public – Some Not So Much

Feb. 8, 2010, 10:49 a.m.

Under a directive from the White House's Office of Management and Budget, federal departments and agencies were to have created open-government Web pages by last Saturday. A few stragglers didn't make it.

Recovery Data to Get a Checkup

Feb. 4, 2010, 1:39 p.m.

Our Transparency Tracker Notices New SEC ‘Open’ Page

Jan. 28, 2010, 12:45 p.m.

Interactive: Track Whether Agencies Are Following Through on President’s Transparency Orders

Jan. 21, 2010, 4:42 p.m.

Get Some Tricks for Tracking Stimulus Funds

Jan. 4, 2010, 11:01 a.m.

Search Stimulus Spending In Your County (With the Latest Data!)

Dec. 10, 2009, 6 a.m.

How We Compiled and Analyzed Stimulus Spending

Dec. 9, 2009, 2:37 p.m.

White House Gives Agencies Transparency To-Do List

Dec. 8, 2009, 1:31 p.m.

Workshop on Government Openness Is Closed to Public

Dec. 7, 2009, 1:06 p.m.

Obama Backtracking on Transparency Promise?

Nov. 30, 2009, 10:10 a.m.

Despite the Obama administration's push for more openness in the federal government, a report says the White House has agreed to extend a deadline for intelligence agencies to review millions of documents that were scheduled to be declassified this year.

Leadership PAC Tracker

Nov. 25, 2009, 1:52 p.m.

How much did your congressman’s Leadership PAC raise, and where did that money go?

Are the Criticisms of the Gov’s Stimulus Site Legit?

Nov. 19, 2009, 10:24 a.m.

Critics have been vocal about the flaws in the first big release of data on Recovery.gov, the federal stimulus-reporting Web site. But despite gaps in job numbers and the appearance of phantom congressional districts, the error rate in this database isn't so bad.

ProPublica’s FAQ for Recovery.gov

Nov. 9, 2009, 3:52 p.m.

Stimulus Database: See Which Contractors Are Cashing In

Oct. 22, 2009, 3:13 p.m.

Stimulus Contracts Tracker

Oct. 22, 2009, 2:55 p.m.

What companies in your area have received highway stimulus funds?

We Made Recovery.gov’s New Stimulus Data Easier to Download

Oct. 16, 2009, 12:31 p.m.

Poll Finds Americans Not Seeing Stimulus Impact

Oct. 6, 2009, 2:27 p.m.

DOJ Says It’s Pushing Agencies on Openness

Sept. 30, 2009, 3:36 p.m.

Leadership PACs: Let the Good Times Roll

Sept. 26, 2009, 10:32 a.m.

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