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 "Office of Management and Budget" ...
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Stimulus Webinar
Cohen dissects the stimulus explaining some of the basics, and describing the best way to report on it. Cohen includes a list of possible story ideas using stimulus data.
Tags: stimulus; economic recovery; The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board (RAT); Office of Management and Budget; OMB; federal spending; recovery.gov; USASpending.gov; contracts: FPDS;
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Unsung Federal Databases
Sarah Cohen takes a look at how every piece of information collected by the federal government falls under the Office of Management and Budget, who puts a list of approved information collections on its website. You can look through this list for a set of forms that will help you find what you're looking for.
Tags: Federal databases; Office of Management and Budget; Approved Information Collections; General Services Administration; Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions; Government Accountability Office; Bid Protests and Decisions; Excluded Parties List System; U.S. Senate; Office of Public Records; Lobbying Disclosure Reports
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Covering the Post Cold War Military and Defense Industrial World
Knowing the players and the acronyms are two of the first things a reporter covering military issues should know. This extensive tipsheet shows how to figure the "cost" of projects, how to get financial disclosure statements on ranking officers, where to find news on the Pentagon web site, how to assess the military presence in your state, and how to find contractors, to name a few topics.
Tags: Army; Navy; Air Force; Marines; Budgets; Department of Defense; DOD; Defense Contract Management Agency; DCMA; Boeing; Lockheed Martin; audits; inspector general; fake Navy Seals; Vietnam Vets; Air Warfare; bureaucracy; spare parts; missile; Center for Strategic and International Studies; CSIS
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Hidden Data: Federal Databases that Federal Agencies Do Not Go Out of Their Way to Disseminate
An eclectic collection of updates reporting on access to federal information, labor, personnel and environmental stories and accompanying data, and a one-page list of federal online sources.
Tags: FOI; Office of Management and Budget; Americans with Disabilities Act; Unions Information Regulation; ADA