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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Taming monster datasets: The data specialist’s perspective
Doig gives tips on how to get huge data sets onto your computer and what tools to use on them.
Tags: SQL, SAS; .FTP; Ruby; large data sets
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Using Federal Campaign Expenditure Data
This tipsheet is a good guide to using electronically filed campaign expenditure data. First, Willis offers an explanation of electronic data formats, then he discusses the different types of expenditures. He offers tips on different ways to work with the data through the FEC website. lastly, he warns about some problems to watch out for and offers final tips for the analysis.
Tags: campaign finance data; analysis; FEC; government reporting; elections; voting; python script; FTP server
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Campaigns and politics: Donors, expenditures and lobbyists
The combination of new laws and an increase in electronic filings leads to a whole new battlefield to negotiate when it comes to covering campaign finance. Willis explains how the new law changes coverage of this important area. He also gives out the differences between electronic filing data and FEC FTP data. There's lots more in this informative tipsheet.
Tags: CFIC; campaign finance; FEC; elections; contributions; electronic filings; FTP; data cleaning; legislation; campaigns; politics; donors; PACs; IRS
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Evaluating Net Information
This tipsheet is a chapter from the Third Edition of The Online Journalist; Using the Internet and Other Electronic Resources. In particular, it discusses the MIDIS system to weigh the integrity of data found on the Internet.
Tags: production; site ownership; spelling errors; domain name; WHOIS database; trust meter; credibility; protocols: WAIS; Telnet; Gopher; FTP servers
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Tipsheet No: 473
This package of hands-on exercises will help you surf the Internet, use boolean logic to get the most out of search engines like Yahoo, Lycos and WebCrawler and take you through the procedures of examining campaign finance records with a spreadsheet and a database manager.
Tags: CAR; Newsgroups; Listservs; FTP; MicroSoft Excel; FoxPro
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Tipsheet No: 404
This package includes everything from lists of federal and related internet sites to ten sites every journalist should bookmark, types of online services offered by newspapers, how to FTP, resources for getting online, a list of freenets, the best internet reporting sources and an internet glossary.
Tags: Leher CAR 42 pgs