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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Pork: The Post-Earmark Era
Nixon gives tons of examples of how lawmakers are still adding the pork even after earmarking has been banned.
Tags: earmarks; pork; lettermarking;
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Powerpoint from: The new money trail: Tracking spending in an earmark-free world
Fallis goes through his story on earmarks "Capital Assets" and what to look for now that earmarking is banned, because there are still ways lawmakers can get what they want.
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Investigating Political Influence
Baker provides a list of questions one should consider - and ask their sources - when covering influence at government agencies. Included are useful links for deciphering the puzzle of influence: lobbying disclosure forms; IRS filings and disclosures; earmark data; and much more.
Tags: politics; lobbying; earmarks; political action committees (PACs); campaign finance;
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Following The Money
Salant details where to look and what to look for when investigating campaign finance. He lists resources for the following: campaign contributions; lobbying; earmarks; legislative favors
Tags: campaign finance; Federal Election Commission; FEC; Center for Responsive Politics; CRP; Sunlight Foundation; Internal Revenue Service; IRS; National Institute on Money in State Politics; OpenSecrets.org; earmarks; lobbying; legislative favors
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The year in CAR
The tipsheet features a PowerPoint slideshow of notable computer-assisted reporting investigations of 2008.
Tags: computer-assisted reporting; housing; data; trade; education; lobbying; fire; day care; parking; vote; earmarks; inspection; sewage; EveryBlock; airbags; mammogram; arrest; railroad; pothole; sprawl; pesticide; crime; drugs; transplant; scholarship; mental health
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The Chronicle of Education's online databases about academe
Brainard outlines the data available through The Chronicle of Higher Education that may be helpful in covering local universities. Included in the data sets are: compensation of college presidents; compensation for other university employees; what professors make; academe's pork barrel (Congressional earmarks going to universities).
Tags: Chronicle of Higher Education; data; academia; Congress; university salaries; earmarks