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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Hidden Cameras: Yours and Theirs
This tipsheet discusses the use of hidden cameras and surveillance video in your story coverage. It points out where surveillance video is often shot, and can be used when covering a story. It also lists possible story ideas related to surveillance videos - such as stories on shop lifting. The tipsheet also covers issues related to doing your own hidden camera investigations - considerations and preparations reporters should make when going this route for coverage.
Tags: hidden camera; surveillance camera; broadcast;
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Watchdog Investigations in Tough Times
Collister offers suggestions for watchdog stories to do during these tough times. Included: following stimulus funds; Congressional spending; discretionary spending of governments; farm subsidies; and many others. He also gives brief accounts of good investigative work being done across the country using these as suggestions for similar watchdog reporting in your own newsroom.
Tags: investigative reporting; broadcast; government spending; watchdog reporting;
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Cutting-edge Internet tips and tricks
Lorek highlights various search sites - from the general (such as google and its advanced search functions) to the more specific (such as where to go to track stimulus funds). She also covers social networking sites, comprehensive resources, and other popular sites.
Tags: search engines; internet; social networking;
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10 Story Ideas for Quick Turn Business Beat Investigations
Lorek gives a list of quick hit stories for the business beat with suggestions ranging from mining EPA violations to OSHA inspection reports,
Tags: EPA; military contracts; appraisal district; nonprofits; tax abatements; SEC filings; Attorneys General office; mortgage brokers; databases; complaints; OSHA;
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On the Beat: Covering Business
The authors list and describe useful websites for business beat reporters. The sites include social networking sites, like LinkedIn, as well as government websites, private business sites, association sites and nonprofit sites. Each listing is accompanied by an explanation of what information is available at the site and how to utilize it.
Tags: business; beat reporting; web searching; internet research; sources
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Internet Redux
The author lists many useful websites for doing online research. She breaks them into categories: beat reporting; finding experts; tracking trends; geography; business finders; public records; statistics.
Tags: online research; web sites; sources; public records
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Backgrounding People on the Internet (Exercises)
Guckian gives several examples of stories where backgrounding is necessary to good reporting. She discusses the sources she would turn to in those situations.
Tags: backgrounding; internet; research; practice; exercise
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Backgrounding People on the Internet
This extensive guide to researching people online contains a long list of useful sources including news archives, people/business finders, city data, county data, criminal histories and occupational licenses. The tipsheet also includes Guckian's own suggestions about how to get the most out of search engines and public records.
Tags: internet; backgrounding; sources; web sites; people finder; social networking sites
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Spanish translation of
This is the Spanish translation of tipsheet #2745. Guckian da una serie de pautas a seguir cuando se reportan elecciones, campanas, etc. Proporciona informacion util acerca de los periodos que tienen las empresas para presentar sus reportes y las fechas limites; las leyes federales y de Texas que limitan los regalos para campanas, asi como lugares donde encontrar informacion y problemas comunes con analisis de datos y mas.
Tags: 2745; elecciones; contribuciones a campañas; politica; comites de partidos; comites politicos; dinero electoral; lobby; cabildeo; fraude; espanol
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Broadcast Investigations: Beating the bushes for stories
Collister provides seven tips for broadcast journalists who are beginning to work on investigative stories. He gives advice on how to find story ideas, how to use public information laws to view documents, how to check claims and more.
Tags: investigations; investigative techniques; public records