Elizabeth Douglass, a reporter covering energy, pipelines, climate finance and more, made a presentation at our event “MINING A BEAT: How to build sources, find documents and explore local issues and universal themes.”

Here is a PDF of that presentation, which covers how to find sources, how to look for stories and trends and how to get exclusives. Douglass has written for InsideClimate News, The Los Angeles Times and The San Diego Union-Tribune.