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:
Search results for "Health departments" ...
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The Impact of Poverty, and How to Convince Your Editors its Worth Writing About
This Powerpoint presentation is a great guide to why you should cover poverty. Get your editor and your readers to care with Kelly's pitch ideas and story examples as well as steps to take to get started.
Tags: poverty; data; HMDA; Department of Health; LED
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Resources for the Education Beat
This tipsheet is simply a list of 32 resources for covering schools - agencies and their websites. (Five of them are specific to the state of Michigan.)
Tags: education; schools; Department of Education; Education statistics; ERIC; private schools; charter schools; stimulus; health and human services; Education Writers Association (EWA)
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Digging in the Defense Department medical data mines
Kennedy discusses sources and advice for covering military medical issues. She includes suggestions for backgrounding stories and finding information from out of the way places, like blogs.
Tags: military; army; Iraq; health care; sources; backgrounding; internet research
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Policing the Police
Eiserer gives 10 tips to reporters who are investigating the "health" of their police department. She explains how to examine the quality of a department by taking a look at the people they hire. En espanol: #2906
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Worker Safety and C.A.R
This tipsheet is a good resource for reporters covering a mining accident for the first time. The author suggests places to start the investigation, like the Mine Safety and Health Administration's website. Johnson also offers some tips to avoid common mistakes when covering mines.
Tags: mining; OSHA; coal; MSHA; Department of Labor
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Tips on Health and Quality Care Investigations
This tipsheet is a guide to reporting on incompetent doctors. It lists resources like websites and government agencies that could be useful for reporters covering the topic.
Tags: health; hospitals; insurance; surgery; Department of Health; malpractice
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Overcoming the Confidentiality Barrier
Lanosga suggests how to get access to information on child abuse in fatal and near-fatal cases. Also listed are the 20 states with laws requiring at least some access to case files, as well as ways to get around barriers if you live in states that don't. And don't quit even after doing a story or two. "Keep beating the drum."
Tags: public records; child endangerment; FOI; Administration for Children and Families; Department of Health and Human Services
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"Using data to uncover workplace dangers and abuses"
This tipsheet provides tips on how to find data from agencies, and what to do if agencies won't give you data. It also includes information about analyzing data sets. The tipsheet also includes a list of important data sources, with links to their websites and descriptions of the data they might have. Additionally, this tipsheet has resources from the U.S. Department of Labor and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health websites that includes a list of their available statistics and data sets.
Tags: U.S. Department of Labor; Injuries; Illnesses; Fatalities; record keeping; NIOSH; respirators and personal protective equipment; agency; workers' compensation; Centers for Disease Control; CDC; OSHA; licensing agencies; Health departments; environmental health standards; institutional health standards; public health hazards
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Internet sites on health care fraud and abuse
Shulte provides a list of websites and explains why the sites would be helpful to journalists covering the health beat. He includes Web addresses to the US Department of Health and Human Services, the US General Accounting Office, the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and many more.
Tags: Hospitals; Medical Boards; Medicare; Medicaid
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Uncovering Medical Mistakes
Bryant provides a number of different websites and resources for reporters who are on the health beat.
Tags: Healthcare; Department of Veterans Affairs; The Institute of Medicine