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 "children" ...
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Accountability in Children’s Court
Diedrich gives great tips on how to cover the juvenile justice system and the children that are in and out of it.
Tags: juvenille court; recidivism
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Children and Trauma: Interviewing Tips
Black provides interview guidelines for reporters interviewing children who have been through traumatic events. She provides general guidelines, as well as details for interviews at the scene of a crime or disaster; covers interview pointers for past traumas, too. (Available in English and Spanish.)
Tags: children; trauma; disasters; crime; violence; grave illness; guidelines
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How to Snare the Interview
This tipsheet addresses how to get the difficult interviews for broadcast journalists. It gives pointers from "snaring in general" to approaches for specific interviews - the victim; government officials; whistleblowers; corporate types; schemers/scammers; prisoners; and children.
Tags: Interviewing; broadcast; television; radio;
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Oral Health Tipsheets
Eyre lists web resources for covering issues of oral health. Included are sources used for expert insight.
Tags: oral health; CDC; National Oral Health Surveillance System: Medicaid Dental contacts; Medicaid's Early Periodic Screening tables; Oral Health America; Children's Dental Health Project
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Tip Sheet: Testing for lead in children's products
The author explains the Chicago Tribune's recent investigation into the presence of lead in childrens' toys. The authors discuss the equipment they used to test toys, as well as the results of their investigation.
Tags: toys; safety; consumer safety
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Special Texas Records Areas: Children, low-income individuals, driver's histories, commerical vehicles
Langford offers advice for finding special sorts of records in Texas. The records include: Child Protective Services records, driving histories, public assistance records and commercial vehicle registrations. Langford describes where to find each type of data, and how it's useful.
Tags: data; story ideas; state government; local government; Texas
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Finding racial disparities in juvenile arrest data
To get closer towards understanding why crime happens, Moore examined the "racial composition of the children arrested in Columbia,"Missouri. This tipsheet offers advice for gathering information on the subject.
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CAR for Covering Education
Ciotta's tipsheet is a good guide for education reporters who want to incorporate CAR into their beat. She suggests ways to analyze test scores and then recommends other sorts of data that education reporters pursue for more in-depth stories. Finally, Ciotta gives some examples of education stories that implemented CAR.
Tags: teachers; students; high school; school athletics; local government; state government; children
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Uncovering the Secrets of Seroxat
The author recounts each stage of the BBC Panorama investigation into the drug Seroxat, which is known as Paxil in the United States. It is one of the world's most prescribed anti-depressants, and it is addictive and can cause self-harm and suicide in some patients. The BBC investigation also found that the drug was sometimes tested on children.
Tags: prescription medicine; drug companies; television journalism; broadcast news; health
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Overcoming the Confidentiality Barrier
Lanosga suggests how to get access to information on child abuse in fatal and near-fatal cases. Also listed are the 20 states with laws requiring at least some access to case files, as well as ways to get around barriers if you live in states that don't. And don't quit even after doing a story or two. "Keep beating the drum."
Tags: public records; child endangerment; FOI; Administration for Children and Families; Department of Health and Human Services