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 "harassment" ...
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State Data: Making it Work for You
Kevin Corcoran provides a great list of useful websites where you can find information and databases on state and local government (taxes, finances, salaries, etc.). This tipsheet also has examples on how to analyze databases (campaign finance, property taxes, etc.) by making spreadsheets. It also provides tips on how to get started on making spreadsheets as well as obtaining data.
Tags: state government; local government; budget; tax; legislatures; lawmakers; spreadsheets; datasets; attorney general; campaign contribution; octane-testing; litigation; property tax; unclaimed property; state board and commission; state employees; harassment; overtime; CAR
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The State of Junior Hockey in 2003: The Cover Up Continues. Also, How to Tell a Complicated Story. Tips from Canada: Uncovering the Rape Culture of the Ice-Hockey Locker Room
This article explains what goes on in hockey locker rooms. The article explains how everything from sexual assault to harassment occurs on a regular basis on some teams. The author of this tipsheet has written several books including "Crossing the line: Violence and Sexual Assault in Canada's National Sport." Tipsheet explains how to simplify a complicated story.
Tags: hockey; Canada; sexual assault; sports; rape; athletics; athletes; violence; locker room; harassment; teams; abuse
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Cyberlaw issues for investigative reporters and editors: Recent developments, including "fair use" under copyright law, open networks and reporter's privilege, republication liability for defamation, and tortious intergerence with a source's confidentiality agreement
This packet includes handouts on the cases of CS First Boston Corporation v. FBC Buster (libel via e-mail), Karaduman v. Newsday (libel action against publishers and investigative reporters as result of republication in book form of allegedly defamatory newspaper articles), Religious Technology Center v. Netcom On-Line Communication Services (intellectual properties on the Internet), and citations involving fraud and computers and wire communication and harassment. Audio tape available through the IRE Resource Center at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ ire.org. Ask for tape #IRE96-10.
Tags: Legislation; Internet
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Tipsheet No: 47
Documents from Freedburg's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of the Yahweh religious sect and its connections to 14 murders. Documents include FBI records, Freedburg's request for criminal file, U.S. District Court documents, Florida motor vehicle registrations, drivers' license records, Metro-Dade Police Department and Public Safety Department request for latent comparison, incident and autopsy reports, Yahweh University's "Open Letter to the World" complaining of the City of Miami's harassment of that institution; inter-office memo; Yahweh literature filed in federal lawsuit; Yahweh's corporate filing; police department's Internal Security Unit report; UCC filing; and affidavit for search warrant.
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