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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A Citizen's Guide to Using the Illinois Freedom of Information Act
7 chapters of useful information on the IL FOIA. Including what a FOIA request is, how to request a document, and what to do if your request is denied.
Tags: FOIA; freedom of information act; Illinois; IL
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Covering Education: When there's not enough time or money.
McBride gives tips on how to cover education and colleges on a tight budget.
Tags: education beat; higher education
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Tips For Getting Your Student Investigations Published
Tips for educators in getting their students' articles published.
Tags: education; students; articles; investigation
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GIS and Tornado Sirens
Okeson explains how she used mapping techniques to report on Peoria County's preparedness for tornadoes after one hit South Pekin, a small village near Peoria, IL. She explains how she used a GPS device, how to download waypoints, and also gives a list of helpful Web sites that were used for the story. A copy of the relevant story is also included.
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Corporate documents
This tipsheet leads reporters through numerous types of documents that corporations are required to file and explains how reporters can use them when covering the business beat.
Tags: Business; corporations; documents; forms
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Five ways you can look good on the health beat
This tipsheets give five worthwhile techniques to help reporters cover the health beat.
Tags: Health; Listservs; Health care
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Investigations on the politics beat
"How to dig into elections, politicians and campaign finance while covering a daily beat. It begins by asking the right questions of a strong web of sources -- and documents."
Tags: Politics; elections; politicians; campaign finance
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Exploitation of Workers
A presentation of an investigation on child slavery in the Ivory Coast and its links with the US Cocoa Industry. Tips on how to follow on such a story and a list of internet resources concerning exploitation of workers.
Tags: cocoa; labor; slavery; Ivory Coast
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International Data - How and Where to Find Them
This tipsheet includes a list of links with brief descriptions about each. Each link relates in some way to locating international data.
Tags: international data; search; search engines; web tools; internet
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How to get human sources on the Net
This 3-page tipsheet includes links to about 20 different websites that would be useful to an investigative reporter. In addition, the tipsheet includes a brief description of each link. Categories for the links include: Web directories, Forum or discussion groups, Going behind a website, and Backgrounding.
Tags: internet; web; websites; web sites; investigative reporting; reporter; tips; computer