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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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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Broadcast: The Paper Chase
A guide for broadcasters on how to navigate through endless stacks of government documents and forms, in order to find the real story.
Tags: FOIA; Freedom of Information; Public Records; Government Documents;
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Investigative Centers and Public Broadcast: Meant to Be?
Houston describes the mutual benefits of investigative centers and public broadcast stations sharing resources. This is a Powerpoint presentation.
Tags: nonprofits; investigative centers; public broadcast stations
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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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Broadcast: Doing it for free
Do more with less by following these tips, including how to travel on a dime and how to get legal fees covered by your newsroom.
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TIME IS MONEY – AND I’M OUT OF IT!!!
Use this tipsheet for some strategies for daily, “down and dirty” digging when you need to do a quick-turn investigation.
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Broadcast: After Breaking News, What's Next?
This tipsheet is comprised of many useful web links covering topics of aviation accidents, automobiles and trucks, political campaign data, federal spending, U.S. court system, crime, business records, weather and more.
Tags: aviation; transportation; accidents; weather; government; federal spending; courts; crime
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Broadcast: New media, new opportunities
Why not use free and easy tools that are available to you where ever your story takes you? Larson gives great examples of using new media to reach your audience.
Tags: social media; livestream qikvideo; skype; Facebook Vitrue
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Data Visualization Examples and Tips
"You've done all of this great data work and it gets reduced to a single sentence. Now what? Learn how to visually show off your hard labor, whether in print, broadcast or on the Web." Thompson and Philips give great tips in this Powerpoint.
Tags: data; visualizing data; data on the web
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Broadcast: After breaking news, what's next? (PowerPoint)
Turn to these tips after a break news story and you'll have your viewers turning to your station day after day.
Tags: breaking news; broadcast