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 "business reporting" ...
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Data tactics for the well-rounded business reporter
Business is all about numbers and data. In this session, you will get tips for finding and using data to beef up your stories about business and economics. No heavy lifting here, but it would be useful to have some experience with spreadsheets.
Tags: business reporting; business; data; numbers
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The Business of training
Bergantino's Powerpoint describes how newsrooms and nonprofits can add to their bottom line by offering training. Included are great tips and questions to ask yourself.
Tags: training; education; newsrooms; nonprofits
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Investigating Shadowy Organizations
Whether you're investigating the CIA or a sports team, use this tipsheet from award winning reporter, Apuzzo, to cover that shadowy organization.
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Lessons learned: From boards to stories to business
This tipsheet outlines "survivor stories" at nonprofit investigative start-ups. They cover topics from editorial challenges to financial issues and administrative and technical challenges.
Tags: nonprofit; investigative reporting; board of directors; start-up; budget; payroll; staffing
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CAR for Business Reporting
Dowdell provides helpful links for journalists covering business. From ready reference to directories and deep web searchs. Dowdell also points to data available on the web. She also gives a brief overview of some advanced search strategies. Included in the tipsheet are story examples and the types of data used.
Tags: business; reference; search strategies; data
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Databases: Investigating Locally and Around the World
Donald's presentation explores the importance of a "data state of mind" for reporters. Beyond knowing FOIA laws, he outlines the (at least) 25 databases every newsroom should have and use in their reporting. The databases cover several different beats, and Donald details the value of each.
Tags: databases; reporting; census data; budgets; audits; tax data; personnel files; campaign finance; financial disclosure reports; voter registration; election results; crime statistics; sexual predators; business demographics; SEC 10K: EDGAR; 990s; EPA Toxic Release Inventory; EPA Enforcements; water quality data;
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Borrowers Betrayed: Covering Business as a Crime Scene
This tipsheet details how a computer-assisted reporting investigation into toxic home loans turned into a crime story when in-depth analysis showed 10,000 people with criminal histories had been licensed as mortgage professionals.
Tags: mortgage; subprime; toxic loans; Florida; criminal justice; shoe-leather reporting; fraud; real estate; brokerage; stolen identity
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Investigative Business Journalism
Cohn's detailed tipsheet discusses investigative tips and techniques for covering foundations, nonprofits and charities with examples of the types of documents and resources critical to this type of reporting - from 990s to human sources. Part 2 of the tipsheet explores investigations of private companies.
Tags: nonprofit; charity; foundation; private business; Internal Revenue Service; IRS; Form 990; 990s; consolidated financial statements; civil court; criminal court; federal agencies; FOIA
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Investigative Business Reporting
This tipsheet lists 22 websites helpful for business reporting.
Tags: business reporting; web sites; federal lawsuits; nonprofit; locating people; Congressional Research; politics; backgrounding; Freedom of Information
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Digging through SEC filings for public companies
This powerpoint outlines the key SEC filings - registration statements; quarterly and annual reports; proxy statements; etc. They highlight information to look for that might merit a deeper investigation.
Tags: business reporting; business investigation; SEC; Securities and Exchange Commission;