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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Covering Immigrations
This presentation gives myriad suggestions for story ideas when covering immigration; suggested sources and organizations helpful to such coverage; key immigration websites; identifying local trends; and important terms.
Tags: immigration; immigrants; undocumented immigrant; illegal alien; undocumented worker; border issues;
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Terminology and Reporting About Illegal Immigration
This tipsheet discusses the wide variation across media about the terms used to address those \"who entered the U.S. without valid immigration documents or those who have overstayed their visas.\" Examples are given from different style guides.
Tags: undocumented workers; illegal immigrants; illegal aliens; immigration documents; AP stylebook; Wall Street Journal; Los Angeles Times
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Investigating Injustices in Immigration Law
Olsen lists seven trends in immigration that any reporter can tackle including deportation for minor crimes, deportations for old convictions, lifers, deportation of people with citizenship claims, inadequate review, illegal re-entry, the illegal immigrants in jail but not deported.
Tags: immigration; hardships; permanent residents; exile; Amerasians; aliens; immigration; crime