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 "beat reporting" ...
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Data-Driven Beats
How can the tools and techniques used in data journalism be applied to the day-to-day demands of beat reporting? What challenges do newsrooms face reorganizing and adding structure to beats? We'll share our experiences building sites like Homicide Watch DC and PolitiFact, and look at examples of other projects that add structure and data to daily beat reporting. http://eyeseast.github.io/data-beats/
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Investigating Higher Education
Use this tipsheet from award winning reporter, Perez, when you need to cover the higher education beat. She gives great resources for where to look and story ideas for the data you receive.
Tags: higher education; property records; IRS; grants; student federal loans
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Integrating CAR into a Daily Beat
Be ready to report on your daily beat using computer-assisted reporting techniques.
Tags: CAR; computer assisted reporting
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Integrating CAR into a daily beat
Use computer-assisted reporting in your daily beat. Martin provides helpful tips to integrate CAR
Tags: integrating CAR; daily beat
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Strategies for Covering the Police Beat and Doing Quick Enterprise Stories
Get tips from Thompson, an IRE award winning reporter, that include getting your hands on police documents(blank ones are important too), riding along with officers on duty, and acquiring the best sources.
Tags: police beat; courthouse beat; cops; police department; police documents
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How Well Does Your State Oversee Nurses (and pharmacists, dentists, psychologists...)?
Government oversight can be tricky when it comes to our caregivers. Find out who is overseeing your nurse, and whether or not they are qualified to be evaluating such performances.
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Data State of Mind
Cochran and Webster discuss "Approaching story ideas with the mindset that you are going to quantify or measure something, rather than just getting the facts and all sides of the story. This requires that you analyze some data on your own, making you less dependent on public officials to give you the straight story and oftentimes giving you a story that wouldn’t have been possible without the analysis.
Tags: data; analysis; data sets; reporting; computer-assisted reporting; beat reporting
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Getting into a
In this powerpoint, Cochran and Webster outline how to approach data-rich stories, as well as how to identify data that is inherently rich in stories. They also cover getting acquainted with the data available on your beat.
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(More than 5) Databases for criminal justice reporting
Roberts discusses the "data-rich" nature of the criminal justice beat, identifying several key databases for reporters. Examples include 911 response data, jail bookings, jury selection transcripts, National Corrections Reporting program and many more
Tags: crime; arrest; jail; courts; police; criminal justice; violent offenders; sexual offenders; prison; inmates; judicial reporting; NACJD; NCRP; jury; juries; court docket
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Military Beat Handout
Capaccio's tipsheet arms reporters with key tips and strategies for covering the military. He gives tips for your first week on the beat, as well as information on: contractor deaths; phone lists; social media; enforcers; obtaining military records/fakes; analysts. He details why these are important and provides helpful links
Tags: military; armed forces; military records; service records; contractors; Army; Navy; Air Force; Marines; National Guard; war; Iraq; Afghanistan;