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 "Video" ...
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What You Need To Know To Get Quality Video For Your Project
In the world of broadcast journalism, a great investigative story is bolstered by great video. Learn tips and tricks about how to use your camera to your advantage in this tipsheet.
Tags: Camera; Video; B-Roll; Interviews; Shooting; Camera Basics; Shooting basics
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The I-Files
Talbot provides his Powerpoint presentation to explain The I-Files, a hub for investigative news videos on Youtube.
Tags: I-files; Youtube; investigative news channel
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Policing the Police
This tipsheets lays out ten important things to keep in mind when investigating police and police corruption.
Tags: Police; policies; internal affairs; data; squad car video
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Producing the CAR Story: Techniques and Alternatives to Print
Alternatives to presenting a computer-assisted reporting story that include an emphasis on "good use" of video, audio and graphics.
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Free Software: From Spreadsheets to GIS
DeBarros & Fenton provide examples of free software for everything from text editing to office productivity to audio/video/photo editing to database managers & web frameworks.
Tags: free software; spreadsheets; Linux; text editing; Notepad++; Vim; Emacs; jEdit; Open Office; Audacity; Gimp; F-Spot; Open Movie Editor; SQLite; MySQL; PostgreSQL; SQL Server Express; Django; Pylons; Ruby on Rails; Wordpress; Drupal
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Unsung Documents
This tipsheet provides information on how to find and effectively use documents in your reporting. It also give tips on working with material once you've obtained it. They also include a "favorite list" of docu
Tags: tax liens; campaign contributions; court records; flight logs; flight manifests; air travel consumer reports; unemployment; workers' comp; real estate; 911 tapes; surveillance videos
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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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New Frontiers in Computer-Assisted Reporting
Cohen's tipsheet is filled with links and explanations of tools that could be of help to computer-assisted reporting. Included are existing free tools that can be "hijacked" for reporting purposes; and projects to analyze audio, video, visual recording and handwriting.
Tags: computer-assisted reporting; web tools; web-extraction; spreadsheets; datasets; DocumentCloud; Excel; visualization; Comment analysis; extraction engines;
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Text Mining
Bones' tipsheet shows how he mined video for keywords used by 7 party leaders during 7 convention speakers. He used excel and access to analyze the data, and determine the words used most commonly by each of the party leaders.
Tags: text mining; computer-assisted reporting; word clouds; visualization; infographics