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 "Open Secret" ...
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Paying for Political Favor
A guide on how to employ websites and search engines in your investigation of political contributions and lobbying.
Tags: Federal Elections Committee; Political Contributions; Lobbying; President; Open Secret
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Following The Money
Salant details where to look and what to look for when investigating campaign finance. He lists resources for the following: campaign contributions; lobbying; earmarks; legislative favors
Tags: campaign finance; Federal Election Commission; FEC; Center for Responsive Politics; CRP; Sunlight Foundation; Internal Revenue Service; IRS; National Institute on Money in State Politics; OpenSecrets.org; earmarks; lobbying; legislative favors
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OpenSecret.org's Core Databases -- and Some Questions They Can Answer
This tipsheet lists seven story ideas that reporters can pursue with data from opensecrets.org. The ideas range from personal financial disclosure to 527s and PACs.
Tags: story ideas; federal government; political investigations; campaign finance
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Center for Responsive Politics Recent Stories
"Here are some of the stories that reporters and researchers at the Center for Responsive Politics produced in the last year by mashing up data on OpenSecrets.org with other sources."
Tags: story ideas; political investigations; campaign finance; federal government
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Beyond Google: Supersearching and the Invisible Web
There's more to using the Internet than just Google. Margot Williams of the Washington Post shows various ways a reporter would miss information by just using Google. She shows information on Iraq War Casualties, terrorism, the Space Shuttle Columbia and more that can't be found with the popular search engine.
Tags: Defenselink; AP casualty database; Accurint; Autotrack; Nexis; US Treasury Office; Internet archive; allwhois; Guidestar; Dialog File 225; Firstgov; FOIA; Campaign finance; Open Secrets; Political Moneyline; lobbyists; PACER; RACER; CM/ECF; LLRX; Smoking Gun; FindLaw; Census; American Religion Data Archive; Library of Congress; EDGAR; FBO; BRB publications
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The Secret Marks of the Primary and Lower Secondary Schools
This tipsheet features advice for reporters about how to gather information and data about schools. Also includes an article entitled, "Open Doors to Data: How we Changed Access in Denmark." This tipsheet is target toward the International community.
Tags: international reporting; schools; Denmark; data; access; information