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 "covering war" ...
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Military Beat Handout
Capaccio's tipsheet arms reporters with key tips and strategies for covering the military. He gives tips for your first week on the beat, as well as information on: contractor deaths; phone lists; social media; enforcers; obtaining military records/fakes; analysts. He details why these are important and provides helpful links
Tags: military; armed forces; military records; service records; contractors; Army; Navy; Air Force; Marines; National Guard; war; Iraq; Afghanistan;
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On the Beat: The Military
McKie eases the fears of reporters new to covering the military. He talks about the bigger picture of covering the military - not only as a "fighting machine" but "a major employer, major spender, and an economic engine." He talks about dividing the beat into short- and long-term stories.
Tags: military; Canada; United States; war; casualties; armed forces; soldier; military contracts
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Covering returning war veterans
Thompson outlines tips for how to covering returning war veterans. He gives tips for gathering information on soldiers - such as utilizing social networking tools and the benefit of using former soldiers and officers as resources in your reporting.
Tags: veterans; military; Iraq; Afghanistan; facebook; social networking; war reporting; soldier;
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Investigating the casualties of war
This tipsheet discusses how to cultivate and handle your sources when covering war as it is imperative to gain their trust. Also listed are sources for gather information on military personnel, deceased veterans, military unit associations, U.S. casualties, civilian deaths, military justice, military legal systems, and much more.
Tags: veterans; war; military; casualties
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Iraq: Exposing Truths About the War
This tipsheet goes into great detail about how to find story ideas from the FedBizOpps website, which lists many federal contracts. The author explains how to find contracts for Iraq, and then where to look for details (like the dollar amount of the contract) that will turn into interesting stories. The author also lists several other useful websites for covering the Iraq war, as well as advice for embedded reporters.
Tags: Iraq; federal contracts; federal government; internet searching; sources; military
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Tragedies & Journalists
This is a guide published by the Dart Center to help journalists cover catastrophic events better, and to survive them in better shape. Chapters deal with such subjects as interviewing victims and rescue workers, being among the first responders to a terrorist act, and dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Tags: Covering catastrophes; covering disasters; victims of fires; school shootings; covering war; battle fatigue; PTSD; 9/11; Oklahoma City bombing
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Coping with Contractors and Contracts
Michael Fabey begins his tipsheet with how to understand the military and how to work with it to get the information you need. He uses his experience to teach others how to avoid excuses and how especially to utilize the internet, while still finding the people behind the facts.
Tags: war; military; defense; homeland security
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Databases and the war on terror
Some databases are readily available that will considerably help a reporter who is covering terrorism. From NICAR resources to AP resources to federal sources, this tipsheet lists quite a few that will add a new depth to stories covering the war on terror.
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Tipsheet No: 1905
The staff of ICIJ compiled this collection of books and websites covering everything from UN reports to private military companies, the arms trade and natural resource exploitation.
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Educate yourself on the military beat
A summary of resources on the military from books, news publications, and web pages.
Tags: military; Army; Navy; Air Force; Marines; defense; security; homeland security; 9/11; September 11; 2001