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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Reporting on Federally-Funded Highway and Transit Projects
This tipsheet provides assistance for reporters who are covering highway, transit and airport construction projects that involve the use of federal funds. Barnes provides an oversight of federal transportation funds, common contract fraud schemes, ways to find problems during construction projects and helpful Web sites, along with much more. En espanol: #2870
Tags: U.S. Department of Transportation; fraud; roads; airports; construction
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How POGO works with the media
This tipsheet covers how the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) can help reporters in covering abuses of power. The handout also contains examples of POGO's work with various news organizations.
Tags: POGO; whistleblowers; government insiders; freedom of information; defense; contract oversight; energy; environment; government