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 "department of agriculture" ...
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Investigating Agriculture: Down on the Farm
Stapleton provides ways to identify federal agencies that oversee farming. She has tips on understanding the regulations and regulators. The tipsheet tells where data can be obtained regarding violations, fines, penalties and suspensions. Stapleton provides agricultural information on pesticides, comparative analysis, politics, and labor. The tipsheet has links to websites that have important agricultural data. Additionally, the tipsheet has a printout from the U.S. Department of Labor which tells what information this agency collects.
Tags: agriculture; farmer; pesticide inspector; U.S. Department of Labor; wage and labor disputes; Migrant and Seasonal Workers Protection Act; Farm labor; contracting; transportation; housing regulations; politics; Social Security Administration; Labor; disability; pesticides; EPA's Worker's Protection Standards; United Farm Workers; National Agriculture Workers Survey; Wage and Labor violation data; Census of Agriculture
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Using the FOIA to get the documents
The Freedom of Information Act is an important tool to journalists, even with more restrictions to information occurring all the time. IRE Board member James Grimaldi gives a step by step guide through the FOIA filing process. Included in this tipsheet are a series of links to help reporters in their FOIA requests.
Tags: FOIA; department of justice; documents; records; ACLU; SPJ; department of state; defense department; department of interior; department of commerce; department of agriculture; NASA; Enron
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Tipsheet No: 81
John Huff of the Orlando Sentinel lists documents and agencies useful in covering the environement; 3 pages.
Tags: Access EPA; Toxnet; Council on Environmental Quality; U.S. Interior Department Fish and Wildlife Service; wetlands; Bureau of Land Management; Agriculture Department
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Tipsheet No: 59
"Covering Big Brother: A Few Places to Get Started," a two-page tipsheet. Taylor was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Kansas City Star team that investigated the U.S. Department of Agriculture.