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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People, Paper, & Passion: How To Get The Impossible
Great investigations require great people, documents, and passion. Learn how to incorporate all three into your investigations with this tipsheet.
Tags: People; Power; Passion; Documents; Freedom of Information
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Backgrounding People and Businesses on the Web
Dowdell provides a helpful framework for all your backgrounding needs. Starting with a strategy and some basic questions, she provides suggested helpful links for finding information on people and businesses on the web.
Tags: backgrounding; background check; business; property records; court records; public records; criminal background check; campaign contributions; politicians; articles of incorporation; business license; professional license
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Ways to Trace Every Business
Campbell walks through the steps to investigate a business, outlining the paper trail that all businesses must create - from a business license to Uniform Commercial Code filings to liquor licenses. Litigation filings also provide a wealth of information about businesses.
Tags: backgrounding business; licenses; trademark; articles of incorporation; UCC; Uniform Commercial Code filing; credit reports; mortgages; liens; professional license; litigation; courts; EDGAR; Securities and Exchange Commission; SEC; Federal Trade Commission; FTC; Financial Industry Regulatory Authority; FINRA
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Ways to Trace Every Business
Campbell details how to background businesses by following the paper trail they create - from business licenses to potential litigation involvement.
Tags: business; business backgrounding; articles of incorporation; Uniform Commercial Code filings; UCC; Internal Revenue Service; IRS; planing and zoning
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Belief is in the document: Tips on investigating religion
Gorski discusses various aspects of covering religion. The tipsheet includes advice about where to find church records such as 990s, applications for property tax exemptions, and articles of incorporation. The tipsheet also explains what each type of record could reveal about the church.
Tags: religion; beat reporting; churches; nonprofits
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Editor's Track: Managing the Investigation
This tipsheet lists different tips for managing the visual aspects of an investigative project. Haddix suggests planning the visuals early and incorporating them into the story budget on the first draft. He also suggests planning a logo for a multi-day series, and remembering to include multi-media elements.
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Data Before and After a Disaster
Heath lists and describes different federal programs that provide financial assistance after a natural disaster. He discusses where to get records of each program's spending, and how to best incorporate that information into a CAR story. Heath also describes the programs used by federal agencies to run simulations and assess potential damage; most of those programs are available for free and could be useful for reporters covering a recent disaster.
Tags: natural disaster; FEMA; forest service; demographics; geophysical data; SBA loans; flood insurance; housing assistance
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Statistics For the Newsroom
This comprehensive guide to incorporating statistics into a story is a good refresher for seasoned reporters and a great introduction to CAR newbies. LaFleur covers different types of data, different forms of analysis (mean, median, regression, rank, correlation, etc), ideas for beat reporters, and instructions for calculating indexes.
Tags: statistics; beat reporting; data analysis; math
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Building a Data-Driven Enterprise Machine
The author discusses how to maintain and organize databases in order to incorporate data seamlessly into a variety of beat and enterprise stories. The tipsheet includes suggestions about what databases to acquire, and how to prepare and clean the data so it is ready for immediate use.
Tags: databases; data editor; newsroom organization; beat reporting; enterprise
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Don't Know Much About Algebra: Math in the Newsroom
This PowerPoint presentation provides a plan on how to use math and understand statistics, and disseminate these numbers in an understandable way in stories. Questions such as mean vs. median are used to illustrate the importance of knowing how to incorporate numbers, and which statistics to use in reporting.