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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Criminal justice investigations: tips from unexpected people and documents
This tipsheet touches on unexpected people and documents in criminal justice reporting. "Rivalries and jealousies open the door to tips and document leaks for well-positioned reporters." Diedrich details a number of these type of sources and materials.
Tags: crime; justice; police; Federal Bureau of Investigation; probation agents; judges; clerks; convicts; warrants; arrest reports; autopsy records; indictments; trial exhibits
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Resources for health topics
Richards highlights data on health topics including mortality, prescription drugs and hospital performance.
Tags: Centers for Disease Control; mortality; National Bureau of Economic Research; National Center for Health Statistics (CDC); international classification of diseases; coroner; medical examiner; autopsy report; Drug Enforcement Agency; controlled substance task force; ARCOS; Automation of reports and Consolidated Orders System; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services; HCUPnet
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Tips for Research on Cold Cases
Woodward describes the processes that she went through when reporting on the then-unsolved murder cases that involved Dennis, Barbara and Donna Yaklich. She explains how she and her photographer came up with a detailed to-do list of things to research and also includes the stories that came out of their research. Woodward also provides a copy of Barbara Yaklich's autopsy.
Tags: criminal investigations; forensics; crime; law enforcement; unsolved crimes
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Deaths, Dying, and Full Disclosure
"State laws can be designed to thwart inquires about suspicious deaths in vulnerable populations," this tipsheet begins. "Hints that something is amiss in your state can be found on paperwork as seemingly routine as a police accident report." Bennish lists a number of events surrounding a death or injury that journalists should look out for, and other factors that send up a flare regarding a possible story. This tipsheet provides a list of resources on where to find records on suspicious deaths, including "funeral homes, nursing homes inspection reports, death certificates, computerized state vital statistics compilations of deaths, state compilations of addresses of institutions and homes, medical examiners, coroners reporters and autopsies, police and news reports."
Tags: nursing homes; deaths; suspicious deaths; accidents; fatalities; wrongful death; assisted living; major unusual incident reports; aging; mental retardation; mental illness
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Courts/Cops Records
"Knowing courts and cops records can help you track important stories..." Records that should be used often are: offense/incidents reports, police calls, arrest reports, search warrants, arrest warrants, sex offender registration, jail booking information, autopsy reports, medical examiner investigator's report, subpoenas, appellate files, search warrants, district attorney files and grand jury attachments.
Tags: crime
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Death Records and the Charlotte Observer series "Broken Trust"
This one-sheet handout explains how the Observer looked into the deaths of the mentally ill using death records, police records, autopsy reports and 911 calls.
Tags: CAR; access; fields; death; mentally ill; disabled; nursing homes
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Tipsheet No: 47
Documents from Freedburg's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of the Yahweh religious sect and its connections to 14 murders. Documents include FBI records, Freedburg's request for criminal file, U.S. District Court documents, Florida motor vehicle registrations, drivers' license records, Metro-Dade Police Department and Public Safety Department request for latent comparison, incident and autopsy reports, Yahweh University's "Open Letter to the World" complaining of the City of Miami's harassment of that institution; inter-office memo; Yahweh literature filed in federal lawsuit; Yahweh's corporate filing; police department's Internal Security Unit report; UCC filing; and affidavit for search warrant.
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