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 "Los Angeles Times" ...
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Down and dirty with the DocumentCloud API
Welsh talks about how the Los Angeles Times uses DocumentCloud. Learn how to use DocumentCloud's API to interact with your documents and how to update or access documents' data with scripting.
Tags: DocumentCloud; DocumentCloud's API; documents; data; scripting
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Investigating Public School Construction
Holland gives tips on how to use public records, confidential sources and computer-assisted reporting to expose reckless spending and shoddy construction in your public school's construction.
Tags: construction; school safety; oversight; public records
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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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Human-assisted reporting: How to create robot reporters in your own image
Welch goes over how to, via programming, extract information from a continuous data stream, and the potential stories that may come out of it.
Tags: programming; computer-assisted reporting; CAR; data analysis
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Making friends with map projections
Welsh goes over the inaccuracies of flat maps and the different methods to avoid their shortcomings.
Tags: map; map projection; flat map; mercator; utm; state plane coordinates
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Locating the story: The latest in online maps
Welsh lecturing on the potential of using online maps in reporting.
Tags: online; maps; internet; google earth; copycat; osm; open street map; html5
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Downloading the Data on Teachers
"Crunching teacher performance data is one of the hottest -- and most controversial -- areas in education reporting right now." Felch offers helpful tips on how to utilize that data to find out who's cheating who.
Tags: test scores; teachers; elementary education; teacher performance