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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Tip Sheet for Immigration Stories
This tipsheet lists various helpful tips when covering immigration. Some of the tips include "Schools are great sources of stories" and "Be wary of rumors among illegal immigrants." The tipsheet ends with some phone numbers for official sources about immigration, like the Federation for American Immigrant Reform and the National Council of La Raza.
Tags: immigration; border; U.S. Immigration and Customs enforcement; backgrounding stories; interviews; sources
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Death on the Job
The safety conditions for working illegal immigrants in America is difficult to determine. Since illegal immigrants do not have any documents you have to dig to find the info you need. Maier points reporters in the right direction for data and information on illegal immigrants who die on the job.
Tags: labor; statistics; OSHA; Department of labor; worker safety; immigrants; illegal immigrants
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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
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Sources for an investigation of industry trends in the sweatshop food factories of your state and region
This tipsheet lists sources for an investigation of industry trends, working conditions, housing and other social problems of immigrant, migrant and citizen workers in the sweatshop and food factories of your state and region. It also includes Rigert's series In the Meat Factories and Headden's Made in the U.S.A. The PDF portion of this handout is three pages long, while the stories make up for the additional 48 pages. The full tipsheet, stories included, can be ordered through the IRE Resource Center. Audio tape available through the IRE Resource Center at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org. Ask for tape #IRE96-52.
Tags: migrant workers; immigration; illegal immigrants; meat packing; sweat shops; labor; food; factories; working conditions; housing