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 "disaster" ...
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Dodging disasters: How to avoid making errors with data
We'll cover common assumptions and mistakes in data-driven stories, from misunderstanding data to writing bad SQL. Learn techniques for checking your work and creating a safety net to help you sleep at night.
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Dodging disasters: How to avoid making errors with data
We'll cover common assumptions and mistakes in data-driven stories, from misunderstanding data to writing bad SQL. Learn techniques for checking your work and creating a safety net to help you sleep at night.
Tags: data, SQL; data-driven stories
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Anatomy of an Investigation
Use these tips when investigating safety issues involving construction sites and buildings that are already in use.
Tags: construction; school safety; oversight; public records; mismanagement; documents
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Putting It All Together: Breaking News and Disaster Coverage
Learn tips about how to sucessfully report on breaking news and cover disasters.
Tags: Breaking News; Disaster Coverage
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Covering the big disaster (and quick-hit story ideas)
Dowdell offers step by step instruction on how to cover big disasters and quick-hit stories. She also includes many helpful database links such as OSHA, EPA, and FAA.
Tags: natural disasters; OSHA; EPA; FAA; IRE; lotteries; taxes
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Your Data is Dirty
Armendariz's PowerPoint gives you instructions on how to use data to report on disasters when they strike and how to make connections.
Tags: data; natural disasters; OpenLayers; Geodjango
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Investigating Unlikely Disasters: Post-Disaster Approaches
Many natural disasters happen so rarely that we forget what to do when one strikes. Donn gives great tips on what and how to investigate the post-disaster story.
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Be Prepared, Before the Storm Hits (PowerPoint)
Start planning before the storm hits. Stock and Armendariz provide this useful PowerPoint on what to do before it's too late.
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Investigating After Weather Disaster
Finley, winner of Breaking News Investigation category-IRE 2011, describes in detail what to do before, during, and after the weather strikes.
Tags: natural disaster; flooding; tornado; hurricane; disaster planing
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Measuring risk: From earthquakes to nuclear plants, how to investigate community preparedness
Get tips on how to investigate community preparedness. Johnson offers lessons learned from "On Shaky Ground," a 19-month investigation of the seismic safety of California's schools.