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 "Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press" ...
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Geocoding: Making your point with maps
This tipsheet helps reporters get familiar with the concept of geocoding and start using it in a practical way. LaFleur guides the reader through getting ArcCatalog to add geocoding services, geocoding files, and improving your matches to get better results.
Tags: geocoding; mapping; ArcView; ArcCatalog; GIS
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Medical Privacy vs. The Public Interest: A Reporter's Guide
"Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act on Aug. 21, 1996, setting in motion efforts by the federal government to protect the medical privacy of patients. The act eventually spurred the Department of Health and Human Services to offer the first federal medical privacy regulations called the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information or simply the Privacy Rule, issued in draft on Oct. 29, 1999." Since then, this law has heavily affected the amount of freedom reporter's have in covering medical stories. This pamphlet gives reporter's helpful hints on getting around the legislation.
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Access to Electronic Records
The Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press released this helpful state-by-state guide to obtaining government data. The first fourteen pages cover various changes being made on the FOIA frontier, like invasion of privacy laws and what exactly constitutes a public record. The actual guide includes the law governing FOIA in that particular state, cases and opinions that have altered it, and fees and software that might be related.
Tags: FOIA; Open records; electronic; NICAR
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OMB Watch
This tipsheet is a side-by-side analysis of the Restoration of Freedom of Information Act of 2003 and the Homeland Security Act of 2002.
Tags: Homeland Security Act; FOIA; OMB; FACA
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Using Census Data for Investigations
This tipsheet breaks down the uses of census data by beat or subject headings and includes information on specific types of Census data and how you can use it.
Tags: census; CAR; education; social services; transportation; politics; public safety; business; housing; environment; PUMS
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If libel won't shut you up, this might: Creative and new challenges to freedom of the press
Audio tape available through the IRE Resource Center at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ ire.org. Ask for tape #IRE96-38. It should be noted that the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press publishes a quarterly magazine The News Media and the Law, the First Amendment Handbook, How to Use the Federal FOI Act and other books dealing with access, legislative, privacy and confidentiality issues. They may be reached at (703) 807-2100.
Tags: FOI