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 "bureaucracy" ...
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Ivory tower inspections: Holding higher education's complex bureaucracies accountable
Gabrielson discusses the challenges of deciphering the world if higher education. He suggests ways of demystifying the institutions if you're covering higher education; who to know to get the information/data you need; reading internal control audits to better understand university finances; and map the university's income sources.
Tags: education; higher education; college; university; administration; students; academic fraud; audit; tuition
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Borders: An insider's guide to international trafficking
Roche and Mariano provide this guide to covering the international trafficking of laborers. Specific headings to their guide are the government, the employer, the middle-man, and the Laborers. Also included are hints on finding public records to help in the investigation.
Tags: borders; immigration; international trafficking; overseas labor; slave trade; bureaucracy; public records; accurint; autotrak; lexis-nexis; FOIA
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Foreign correspondent's D.C. survival kit
The myriad of organizations and bureaucracy in Washington D.C. can be confusing to anyone, let alone someone from outside the U.S. Marian Wilkinson and Andre Verloy compile an essential tipsheet for foreign correspondents covering the Beltway. There are useful web links galore in the handout, covering government agencies to resources and NGOs. While this tipsheet is designed for foreign journalists, it can be equally useful to any journalist covering government in D.C.
Tags: Foreign correspondent; government; federal government; defense; terrorism; legislature; Capital Hill; Congress; Supreme Court; NGO; think tanks; State Department; GAO; SEC
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Covering the Post Cold War Military and Defense Industrial World
Knowing the players and the acronyms are two of the first things a reporter covering military issues should know. This extensive tipsheet shows how to figure the "cost" of projects, how to get financial disclosure statements on ranking officers, where to find news on the Pentagon web site, how to assess the military presence in your state, and how to find contractors, to name a few topics.
Tags: Army; Navy; Air Force; Marines; Budgets; Department of Defense; DOD; Defense Contract Management Agency; DCMA; Boeing; Lockheed Martin; audits; inspector general; fake Navy Seals; Vietnam Vets; Air Warfare; bureaucracy; spare parts; missile; Center for Strategic and International Studies; CSIS
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Sourcing: From Bureaucrats to Cops
A tipsheet about "..Sourcing your way into a bureaucracy, or any institution -- public or private -- is a lot like door-to-door sales. You've got to get your foot in the door. Once there, you just widen the circle..." A listing of agencies and documents to pursue to figure out sources to pursue, especially at tightly woven companies or government offices.
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Covering Local Government
The tipsheet lists "Some Humble (and Personal) Rules of Thumb," from "If It Ain't Broke...Why Are They Fixing It?" to "Recycling in the Truest Sense," to "Committees."
Tags: Bureaucracy; budgets; politicians; whistleblowers
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Looking Beyond AFDC
This tipsheet gives story ideas about how welfare reform may affect employers, working poor families, welfare bureaucracies, businesses, charitable and community-based services and absent parents.
Tags: None
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Hidden Data: Federal Databases that Federal Agencies Do Not Go Out of Their Way to Disseminate
An eclectic collection of updates reporting on access to federal information, labor, personnel and environmental stories and accompanying data, and a one-page list of federal online sources.
Tags: FOI; Office of Management and Budget; Americans with Disabilities Act; Unions Information Regulation; ADA
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Medical Reporting;The Health Bureaucracy in Washington;
This handout provides useful sources for those on the medical beat: beat sources, on-line sources, a breakdown of the health bureaucracy in Washington, documents, directories and other sources.
Tags: National Institute of Health Reform; medicine; doctors; hospitals; bureaucracy; hospitals
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Tipsheet No: 361
Fifteen students from the University of Maryland's College of Journalism each wrote an article from each panel that dealt with covering the bureaucracy from Friday's sessions. Articles cover such topics as the hidden value of presidential archives, accessing military records, tips on covering federal agencies, obtaining electronic data, tips on covering lobbyists, how to find hidden government data bases, etc.