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 "dumping" ...
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Telling (and Showing) The Story
Get beyond the "Date Dump" and make sure you report beyond data and words with this tipsheet.
Tags: Data Dump
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Census 2010: A Survivor's Guide
In a data dump that will deliver 100 billion numbers, Campbell walks you through downloading and analyzing the overwhelming wealth of material provided by the 2010 Census.
Tags: Census; data; American FactFinder; blocks; block groups; tracts;
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Doing your own laboratory testing
Katches, Roe and Barry's tipsheet offers extensive guidance for conducting investigations that involve laboratory testing. The suggestions aim to ensure validity of scientific investigations and make them as affordable, efficient and useful as possible. Katches, Roe and Barry each have conducted award-winning investigations using laboratories.
Tags: science; laboratories; mercury; pollution; toxic waste; dumping; lead poisoning
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Uncovering Industrial Waste -- Snooping on Superfund
Nussbaum provides helpful tips for reporters who are covering environmental pollution stories. He explains some Superfund blindspots, provides questions to ask and gives reporters some documents, Web sites and databases to look into.
Tags: environment; Superfund; Ford Motor Co.; industrial waste; dumping; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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Uncovering industry pollution
Kim's tipsheet reviews his IRE Award-winning investigation of ocean dumping off the Korean coast and its effects on marine ecosystems. It traces how he started the story, sources he used and the role of scientific research. The tipsheet serves as a how-to guide for ocean pollution research.
Tags: pollution; ocean dumping; ecosystems; contamination; water pollution; science; toxic waste; marine research
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Tools for Mining Data from Web Pages
This tipsheet covers the basics of getting data online. It talks a lot about using Perl, HTTP::Recorder and Firefox to find and use the data. The tipsheet also includes a list of other Perl functions as well as a list of resources to help reporters.
Tags: Perl; Firefox; Mechanize Module; code; web browsers; HTML::Toke Parser; Data::Dump; computers; technology
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Some tips for environmental reporters
Tips for environmental reporters, including water, air and land pollution. Seven-page handout relates Hayes' experience and collected wisdom on such issues as scentometers, water sampling, NPDES permits, hazardous waste dumps, SARA Title II (Toxic Release Inventory), ozone and more.
Tags: environment; pollution; toxic waste; air pollution; water pollution; land pollution; EPA