Jennifer LaFleur

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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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How We Compiled and Analyzed Stimulus Spending

Dec. 9, 2009, 3:37 p.m.

White House Gives Agencies Transparency To-Do List

Dec. 8, 2009, 2:31 p.m.

Workshop on Government Openness Is Closed to Public

Dec. 7, 2009, 2:06 p.m.

Obama Backtracking on Transparency Promise?

Nov. 30, 2009, 11:10 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, 2:52 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, 11:24 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.