The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
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IRE Member Information
So you're an IRE member? What does it all mean? This tipsheet provides information about the perks of IRE membership such as networking, fellowships and scholarships, and much more.
Tags: IRE Membership
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Putting It All Together: Breaking News and Disaster Coverage
Learn tips about how to sucessfully report on breaking news and cover disasters.
Tags: Breaking News; Disaster Coverage
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Public Records Act
Tipsheet on profiling the Public Records Act and ways in which journalists can garner information.
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Finding the Story
Berens gives great tips on how to break a big enterprise story. "The key is to not only follow your gut but to employ specific strategies that allow you to attack story ideas from new directions." This extensive tipsheet has all you need for a brilliant story.
Tags: enterprise story; research; story ideas
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Project Checklist
Berens shares his fail-safe checklist for discretionary projects. It includes great questions to ask yourself to make your story stand out.
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Writing the Story
Armstrong shares his award winning tips on how to write a great investigative story.
Tags: story writing
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The Art of the Interview and Source Development
How to do great interviews, on the fly or going deep.
Tags: Interview; Source Development
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Now is TIFIA's Time
Expanding popular federal credit assistance program will encourage infrastructure investment and enhance the effectiveness of available transportation funding.
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Opensecrets.org
Important tips on how to report on the candidates in the upcoming 2012 election.
Tags: Politics
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Health Analyses for Any Newsroom
Journalists have a duty to report on the hospitals, nursing homes, doctors, and clinics that provide medical treatment to their viewers, readers, and listeners. Learn tricks of the health reporting trade in this tip sheet.
Tags: Health