STRATFOR

INTERN REFERENCE MATERIAL

Compiled January 2008

WELCOME TO STRATFOR

This binder is a compilation of various training materials you'll receive as an intern. Your tasks will vary depending on your AOR, but there are certain responsibilities that ALL Stratfor interns must do.

Front SectionAOR breakdown

Contact List

Stratfor Websites/ Product List of websites

WebExOne

Clearspace & the OS list

GRI/ GV

Situation Reports (composed by the writers)

Stratfor EmailEmail Lists

Email Headers

Stratfor OverviewHow to Write an Analysis

George Friedman on Stratfor

Research ToolsResearch Document – 200+ sources on Clearspace

Sites with Passwords

New links by AOR

LogisticsSuspicious Package Procedure

Office Expense Reports

COMPANY BREAKDOWN BY AOR

Director of Global Analysis – Peter Zeihan (Austin)

EAST ASIA

Rodger Baker (Austin)

Matt Gertken (Austin)

Jennifer Richmond (China) – Country Director

MESA

Kamran Bokhari (offsite)

Reva Bhalla (DC)

EURASIA

Lauren Goodrich (Austin)

Marko Papic (Austin)

LATAM

Karen Hooper (DC)

Araceli Santos (offsite) – Researcher/ Monitor

AFRICA

Mark Schroeder (Austin)

MILITARY

Nate Hughes (DC)

SECURITY

Fred Burton (Austin)

Scott (Stick) Stewart (offsite)

Ben West (Austin)

PUBLIC POLICY

Bart Mongoven (DC)

Kathy Morson (DC)

RESEARCHERS/MONITORS

Kristen Cooper (Austin)

Antonia Colibasanu (Offsite)

Kevin Stech (Austin)

WATCH OFFICERS

Aaron Colvin (DC)

STRATFOR WEBSITES

Stratfor.com

Our main company site. You'll be looking at this every day.

Clearspace.stratfor.com

All of our news items and compiled research material goes here. You'll may want to use this site to check out news for your AOR (which you'll also receive in your inbox) and research materials.

Stratfor.webexone.com

A calendar and useful place to post/view/become aware of upcoming events.

Core.stratfor.com

An online version of your Inbox, in case you can't access your regular computer with Outlook/Thunderbird already set up.

Use your username/password provided by IT for all the above sites.

CLEARSPACE

Welcome to Stratfor's Research Spot! Stratfor finally has a one-stop shop for finely-tuned research on issues of continuing relevance. Dig around, make suggestions and add your own documents. If you're searching Clearspace for research assistance, check out our research document with 200+ sources on it under “Research Tools.” Email Athena Bryce-Rogers at if you have any questions. Research requests will go to .
When adding documents, please follow a few basic rules of thumb so that we keep this section as user-friendly as possible:

  • Any uploaded document should be well-organized – Please do not just upload a document with a bunch of highlighted news articles.
  • Source Everything -- This way anyone using the material can verify its accuracy if necessary. Hyperlinks within the articles like this are best. (Go to “Insert” and click on Hyperlink.) Including the full article below the final compiled research also works, as does a simple list of sources at the end of the document.
  • Use Tags – Clearspace relies on “Tags” rather than dozens of subfolders to keep things organized. Whenever you upload a document, there's a section at the bottom of the page where you insert “Tags” -- key words that you would associate with the document. Appropriately tagged documents will top the search list so that you find what you need quickly.
  • Date your documents - This can be included in the description or title. Month or year, depending on the information, should be fine.

OS LIST ON CLEARSPACE

Clearspace is also a source for discussions and every news article that goes out on the os list. Whenever monitors find a note-worthy news item – something that the AOR heads should know about – they forward it to . The os list is then posted on Clearspace and available for all to see. Interns are also welcome to send news articles to this list, although it should be done carefully – Watch Officers don't want to see five articles with essentially the same information.

World overviews and quick news links

East Asia first cut

China Daily (

Shanghai Daily ( (especially check in the afternoon – usually updates around 1pm CST)

People’s Daily -

Xinhua

South China Morning Post – HK english paper (ID: hanappa PW: gaegul)

CHANNEL NEWS ASIA

FINANCIAL TIMES – ASIA

VOICE OF AMERICA – ASIA

AL-Jazeera English

International Herald Tribune

South Asia first cut

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-Press Trust of India

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- (click on headlines, and can also search headlines by state/city – Mumbai, Maharashtra; Delhi; Bangalore, Karnataka; Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh; and other cities in GV monitoring guidance that we need to watch) – good source for breaking news

-GEO

-AAJ:

-THE NEWS

-Nepal News.Net

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Middle East first cut (coming soon):

Eurasia first cut

-RIA (Russia) - [but not just the front page but the huge list of items at the bottom]

-Moscow Times -

-Itar-Tass -

-Kommersant -

-Bloomberg News:

-Financial Times -

-International Herald Tribune:

-BBC News:

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Africa first cut

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PUBLIC POLICY

  • WSJ log-in – user: wsj555 pass: analysts
  • FT log-in – user: stratfor1 pass: analysts

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Latin America

-Mexico

  • El Universal (12:30 am; 5:40 am and about every 20-30 min. or so from then on)
  • Milenio
  • El Financiero
  • Jornada

-Venezuela

  • El Universal (11 am; 1 pm; hourly after that)

-Argentina

  • Clarin (9 am, roughly hourly after that)
  • La Nacion (12:30 am; 8:30 am, roughly every hour at the half hour)

-Colombia:

  • El Tiempo (1 am, 11 am, 2 pm)
  • La Patria
  • La F.M.

Tier 2 Latin America (swept 1-2 times per day): Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Cuba

-Chile

  • El Mercurio (9:30, 10:30, every hour on the half hour)
  • Cronica Digital

-Peru

  • La Republica
  • Correo

-Bolivia

  • La Razon (1:40, 2:40 am)

-Ecuador

  • El Comercio
  • Hoy

-Nicaragua

  • El Nuevo Diario (4:30 am; 12:00 pm and about every 30 min. after that)

-Cuba:

  • Granma
  • Prensa Latina