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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Covering Natural Disasters
Covering natural disasters can be an overwhelming task, use these tips from McClure, Chief Environmental Correspondent at InvestigateWest. He provides advice for before the weather starts.
Tags: tornadoes; hurricanes; floods; post-disaster coverage
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Paper and Databse Trails
Hall discusses the information that an investigative reporter can gather from various data sources including documents and databases. The tipsheet provides a list of documents/records and what sort of information you can anticipate finding with each given example
Tags: documents; FOI; databases; audits; payroll documents; police reports; correspondence; reports; annual budgets; overtime; purchasing records; contracts; campaign finance reports; test scores; tax-exempt organizations; inspection reports
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Sprawl: A guide to coverage resources
This is a guide for journalists covering urban sprawl issues. It includes lists of resources that are helpful for that topis. Mainly, the tipsheet is divided into three sections: advocacy groups, academic research and others. Overberg explains where to go for each type of resource, and why it is helpful. Corresponds with story #18782
Tags: sprawl; urban development; mapping; census; population; development; internet
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Sports Investigation: The Basics
This tipsheet is a good guide to a successful sports investigation. First, Farrey makes a distinction between stories that speak to the fan and those that address broader social issues. Then, he gives advice on how to do a sports investigation that fits into both categories. Some of the things he discusses include using FOIA laws for public university athletic programs and treating fans as correspondents.
Tags: sports; athletics; athletes; steroids; professional sports; college sports; NCAA
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Secret Justice: Judicial Speech
This is a booklet that talks about various supreme court judges and highlights their policies on correspondence with the press. The booklet contains a series of articles on cases that have gag orders.
Tags: gag orders; supreme court judges; press correspondence and judges
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Text editors for cleaning data
This handout covers some commands that would significantly improve the process of cleaning data using the program UltraEdit. It includes a "quick hit" list of symbols and the functions to which they correspond.
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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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Reporting on Asia and the Pacific
This tipsheet lists false assumptions, how to prepare, expectations, and how to act when reporting in Asia and the Pacific
Tags: Reporting; Asia; Pacific Rim
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Notable investigations of 2002
A comprehensive list of Notable Investigations of 2002 with corresponding web pages.
Tags: story; investigation
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On Writing: Some Tips
Meyer suggests some strategies that can help investigative writers to organize their information. One tip: Before you write, make sure you can summarize your story on a business card. Also, create separate file folders that correspond to the different parts of the story you plan to write.
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