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 "abuse" ...
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Investigating Prison Abuse
Halloran's Powerpoint goes over how to gather facts, collect evidence and what to do when you encounter road blocks in your investigation into prisons and prison abuse.
Tags: Prison Abuse; inmates; collection evidence; broadcast
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Investigating Prisons
Chang gives three thorough tips on what to remember when investigating prisons. From humanizing the inmates to remembering to cover the statistics.
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Covering Invisible Populations
Teichroeb outlines lessons she's learned while covering marginalized people and populations - such female prisoners and abused students. Much of her tipsheet touches on issues of developing the trust of your sources. Teichroeb includes links to a handful of stories she completed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Tags: marginalized populations; trauma; abuse; sources; documents; ethics; conflict of interest; Dart Center on Journalism and Trauma and Dart Society
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Moving abuse stories beyond the courthouse
Davis talks about covering abuse - but steering clear of the "extraordinary" cases and focusing on the other stories. He suggests delving into how often abuse happens, why it keeps occurring, and how the system fails at prevention of abuse.
Tags: case-tracking systems; public documents; domestic violence; abuse; Complaints and Settlements; Broken Trust; Sarasota Herald-Tribune; Coaches Who Prey; Seattle Times; The ABCs of Betrayal; The Columbus Dispatch
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Investigations into Health Care
Schulte offers a list of websites that can "help reportres understand complex health care fraud and abuse issues or get information on doctors and the health care industry."
Tags: internet research; web sources; health care; beat reporting; hospitals
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The Bupe Fix
Schulte discusses a recent Baltimore Sun investigation into the drug buprenorphine, which is often recommended to treat narcotics addicts. Schulte lists sources that were helpful to the reporters during the investigation, such as the DEA's ARCOS system and the National Alliance of Advocates for Buprenorphine Treatment.
Tags: drugs; addiction; prescription; substance abuse; internet resources; sources
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Using data to investigate abusive teachers
Davis and Doig explain how to investigate abusive teachers. Included are tips as to where to look for complaints against teachers, such as the state Department of Education or the agency in charge of your state's teacher certification. The tipsheet suggests what trends to look for in the data, and what pitfalls to anticipate
Tags: Department of Education; abuse; complaints; teachers; faculty; education; discipline
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Tips for Investigating Dangerous Caregivers
Teichroeb gives tips to reporters who are covering mistreatment of patients by their hired caregivers. Teichroeb's advice stems from a story she wrote about a state-funded residential program for developmentally disabled adults, in which she found rampant abuse and neglect by the caregivers to the clients, who were unable to appeal their placement in the program because they had gotten into trouble with the law. She explains how to get started on such projects, how to search for documents, interviewing techniques and more.
Tags: elderly; caregivers; nursing homes; abuse; neglect; mistreatment
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Data on Addiction
The main source of federal data on drug use is the Substance Abuse and mental Health Services Administration. Suo discusses some of the data sets that are available from the organization's website, as well as the pros and cons of each one.
Tags: drugs; public health; public safety; narcotics; data analysis; computer-assisted reporting
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Tracking sex offenders: How to find the ones who have dropped off the radar screen
This tipsheet is a good guide to finding missing sex offenders in your state. The author suggests using your state's internet registry and joining it to the Department of Corrections inmate database in Access to see which inmates were recently released but are unaccounted for.
Tags: sex offenders; Megan's Law; prison; crime; Microsoft Access