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 "enterprise projects" ...
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Finding the Story
Berens outlines three stages of strategy to use when you want to make an enterprise project really pop.
Tags: story ideas; strategy; enterprise projects
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Project Checklist
Award winning reporter, Michael Berens, shares his checklist for when he embarks on a project that is near and dear to him.
Tags: checklist; enterprise projects
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Turning Your Stories into a Tablet or Phone Ap
Learn how to put your projects on mobile devices and turn your stories into mobile applications.
Tags: Mobile Phone; Tablet
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Project Checklist
Berens presents a 10 point checklist for enterprise projects. He describes it as a "failsafe compass" for discretionary projects (ideas that begin from scratch).
Tags: checklist; reporting; enterprise reporting; investigative reporting
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The Pearl Project: Teaching Students Information Gathering While Protecting the Enterprise of Investigative Journalism
Barbara Feinman Todd, associate dean of journalism at Georgetown University, discusses the Pearl Project, an investigation into the murder of Daniel Pearl. The authors discuss how the Pearl Project began, how they use it as a teaching tool, how the project utilizes social networks and wikis, and how students learn from being a part of it.
Tags: Daniel Pearl; journalism education; technology; social networks; Pearlpedia; convergence
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Investigating Trucking
This tipsheet is a comprehensive guide to reporting on the trucking industry. It begins with a list of questions to ask at the beginning of an investigation, like, "Did the truck driver have a valid Commercial Drivers License?" Next, the tipsheet lists some pieces of information that reporters should be able to find before deadline, that could make their stories better. Then, the tipsheet lists possible follow - up investigations; these are more long-term projects and might make for good enterprise stories. There is a description of how to go about each investigation. Finally, the tipsheet ends with a list of contacts and government agencies that could be helpful for a reporter writing a story about the trucking industry.
Tags: transportation; highways; FARS; accidents; driving; drivers licenses; traffic
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How to Stay In Touch and Out of Trouble
In this tipsheet, Nelson offers a lot of advice for editors about staying on top of investigative projects. Nelson makes several suggestions, like communicate with the reporters, take notes at all your meetings, and do extensive fact checking. She offers reasons for why each step is important, and then comments on her own experiences in those situations. Finally, Nelson included two pages of sample emails to show how she "spells out" each step of the investigation.
Tags: newsroom; editors; editing; enterprise reporting; fact checking; accuracy checks
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Project tips for urban growth stories
O'Reilly provides a number of recommendations on writing for urban growth projects. This tipsheet includes resources about developers and other enterprise reporting issues.
Tags: GIS software; Census Bureau; mapping
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Doing investigations while covering the daily beat
Curliss' tipsheet provides advice in three areas. He outlines an approach to doing investigative journalism while on the daily beat, such as working on short-term, mid-term and long-term projects simultaneously so that you "keep pulling on a string for an enterprise piece." He notes some broad areas to explore, such as background checks and bond referenda. And he summarizes a bevy of helpful databases and websites, such as www.landings.com and www.switchboard.com.
Tags: investigative reporting; time management; investigations
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Managing and Juggling: Working with editors to get time for enterprise
Alison Young of the Detroit Free Press suggests ways beat reporters can work with their editors to make time to do investigative and enterprise stories.
Tags: enterprise; editors; managing; beat; project