Editing Southern Poverty Law Center (section)

=== ''Intelligence Report'' ===
Since 1981, the SPLC's Intelligence Project has published a quarterly ''Intelligence Report'' that monitors what the SPLC considers [[Radical right (United States)|radical right]] [[hate group]]s and [[extremists]] in the United States.<ref>{{oclc|70790007}}</ref> The ''Intelligence Report'' provides information regarding organizational efforts and tactics of these groups and persons, and has been cited by scholars, including [[Rory M. McVeigh]] and [[David Mark Chalmers]], as a reliable and comprehensive source on U.S. right-wing extremism and hate groups.<ref name="Chalmers_Backfire_2003"/>{{rp|188}}<ref>See:
*[http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report Intelligence Report ''Get Informed'' web page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150803094210/http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report |date=August 3, 2015 }}. Retrieved December 18, 2010.
*{{Cite journal|first=Rory|last=McVeigh|title=Structured Ignorance and Organized Racism in the United States|journal=[[Social Forces]]|volume=82|issue=3|pages=895–936|date=March 2004|jstor=3598361|doi=10.1353/sof.2004.0047|s2cid=146565591|quote=[I]ts outstanding reputation is well established, and the SPLC has been an excellent source of information for social scientists who study racist organizations.}}
*Barnett, Brett A. (2007) [https://books.google.com/books?id=iuQSNj5NxioC&dq=Southern+Poverty+Law+reliable+source&pg=PA20 ''Untangling the web of hate: are online "hate sites" deserving of First Amendment Protection?''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408111107/https://books.google.com/books?id=iuQSNj5NxioC&dq=Southern+Poverty+Law+reliable+source&pg=PA20 |date=April 8, 2023 }}. Youngstown, NY: Cambria Press. Retrieved May 15, 2017
*{{cite web |url=http://www.wiu.edu/ISCDA/resources.shtml |title=Illinois Association for Cultural Diversity reading list |publisher=[[Western Illinois University]] |access-date=January 26, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515070740/http://www.wiu.edu/ISCDA/resources.shtml |archive-date=May 15, 2008 }}</ref> In 2013 the SPLC donated the ''Intelligence Project''{{'}}s documentation to the library of [[Duke University]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=EXTREMISM @ the LIBRARY|first=Maria R.|last=Traska|journal=[[American Libraries]]|volume=45|issue=6|year=2014|pages=32–35|jstor=24603509}}</ref> The SPLC also publishes ''HateWatch Weekly'', a newsletter that follows racism and extremism, and the ''Hatewatch'' blog, whose [[Subtitle (titling)|subtitle]] is "Keeping an Eye on the Radical Right".<ref>{{oclc|753911264}}</ref>

Two articles published in ''Intelligence Report'' have won "Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism" awards from the [[Society of Professional Journalists]]. "Communing with the Council", written by Heidi Beirich and Bob Moser, took third place for Investigative Journalism in the Magazine Division in 2004, and "Southern Gothic", by David Holthouse and [[Casey Sanchez]], took second place for Feature Reporting in the Magazine Division in 2007.<ref>For the articles and awards see:
* {{cite web|last=Beirich|first=Heidi|author2=Bob Moser|title=Communing with the Council|work=Intelligence Report|publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center|year=2004|url=http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=802|access-date=January 26, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091020094447/http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=802|archive-date=October 20, 2009}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.spj.org/a-eyeshadeW04.asp |title=Green Eyeshade Awards 2004 |publisher=Society of Professional Journalists |access-date=January 26, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090124072832/http://spj.org/a-eyeshadeW04.asp |archive-date=January 24, 2009  }}
*{{cite web|last=Holthouse|first=David|author2=Casey Sanchez|title=Southern Gothic|work=Intelligence Report|publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center|year=2007|url=http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=789|access-date=January 26, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090817193655/http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=789|archive-date=August 17, 2009}}
* {{cite web |url=http://spjsofla.net/2008/04/30/finalists-named-in-58th-annual-green-eyeshade-awards |title=Green Eyeshade Awards 2007 |publisher=Society of Professional Journalists |access-date=January 26, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514124213/http://spjsofla.net/2008/04/30/finalists-named-in-58th-annual-green-eyeshade-awards/ |archive-date=May 14, 2008  }}</ref>

Since 2001, the SPLC has released an annual issue of the ''Intelligence Project'' called ''Year in Hate'', later renamed ''Year in Hate and Extremism'', in which it presents statistics on the numbers of hate groups in America. The current format of the report covers racial hate groups, nativist hate groups, and other [[Far-right politics|right-wing extremist]] groups such as groups within the [[Patriot Movement]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Intelligence Report, browse all issues web page |url=http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues |publisher=SPLC |access-date=May 6, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508004916/http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues |archive-date=May 8, 2015  }}</ref> [[Jesse Walker]], writing in ''[[Reason.com]]'', criticized the 2016 report, questioning whether the count was reliable, as it focused on the number of groups rather than the number of people in those groups or the size of the groups. Walker gives the example that the 2016 report itself concedes an increase in the number of KKK groups could be due to two large groups falling apart, leading to members creating smaller local groups.<ref>{{cite web|author=Walker, Jesse|author-link=Jesse Walker|title=The Southern Poverty Law Center Is Counting Extremists Again: Do its numbers tell a story?|url=http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/16/the-southern-poverty-law-center-is-count|work=[[Reason (magazine)|Reason Magazine]]|publisher=[[Reason Foundation]]|issn=0048-6906|access-date=April 19, 2017|date=February 16, 2017|archive-date=April 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419192549/http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/16/the-southern-poverty-law-center-is-count|url-status=live}}</ref>