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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Database checklist: Key academic research resources — both free and restricted
Wihbey provides useful tips on how to use academic research in your investigations. He includes many databases, both restricted and unrestricted. http://journalistsresource.org/reference/research/database-checklist-key-academic-research-resources-free-restricted/
Tags: academic research; LexisNexis; Google Scholar; Full Text Reports
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Integrating CAR into existing courses
This is a guide to incorporating computer-assisted reporting into other journalism classes. South discusses ways to introduce students to CAR, and provides some examples to show students of how CAR can make investigative stories more precise.
Tags: teaching; college; journalism school; CAR; data analysis; precision journalism; Lexis-Nexis
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Borders: An insider's guide to international trafficking
Roche and Mariano provide this guide to covering the international trafficking of laborers. Specific headings to their guide are the government, the employer, the middle-man, and the Laborers. Also included are hints on finding public records to help in the investigation.
Tags: borders; immigration; international trafficking; overseas labor; slave trade; bureaucracy; public records; accurint; autotrak; lexis-nexis; FOIA
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The Byte Chase
Backgrounding individuals is one of reporters' nuts-and-bolts tasks. In this age of the World Wide Web, databrokers and Lexis/Nexis, much can be done online. But not everything. It's important to remember that almost anything you see on a computer screen was at one time a paper document. Therefore, it's useful to think the same way about electronic records as you might about paper.
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Tipsheet No: 114
Seven 1992 stories called up through Lexis Nexis on Wal mart's impact on local economies.
Tags: Wal mart.