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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City of Miami: Building & Zoning Department
Using documents such as this are helpful to strengthen your investigation.
Tags: documents; special inspector; zoning; building; city; government
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Spanish Translation of Reporting on Federally-Funded Highway and Transit Projects
This is the Spanish translation of tipsheet #2683. Informacion general para investigaciones sobre construccion de carreteras, aeropuertos y proyectos de transito financiados con fondos federales.
Tags: carreteras; transito; fondos federales; transporte; construccion;
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Spanish translation of
This is the Spanish translation of tipsheet #2684. Esta es una copia del discurso de David Barnes sobre el tema de proyectos de transporte.
Tags: Departamento de Transporte de Estados Unidos; fradude; carreteras; transito; aeropuertos; construccion; proyectos con fondos federales; espanol; 2684
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Spanish translation of
This is the Spanish translation of tipsheet #2683. Proporciona ayuda a los reporteros que cubren proyectos de transito, construccion de carreteras y aeropuertos financiados con fondos federales. Barnes da un vistazo general a los fondos federales de transporte, los esquemas de fraude contractuales mas comunes, maneras de detectar problemas durante los proyectos de construccion y sitios web de utilidad para lo mismo.
Tags: U.S. Department of Transportation; Departamento de Transporte de los Estados Unidos; fraude; carreteras; aeropuertos; construcciones; proyectos financiados con fondos federales; espanol; 2683
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Reporting on Federally-Funded Transportation Projects
This is a copy of David Barnes' speech about reporting on transportation projects. En espanol: #2871
Tags: U.S. Department of Transportation; fraud; roads; transit; airports; construction
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Reporting on Federally-Funded Highway and Transit Projects
This tipsheet provides assistance for reporters who are covering highway, transit and airport construction projects that involve the use of federal funds. Barnes provides an oversight of federal transportation funds, common contract fraud schemes, ways to find problems during construction projects and helpful Web sites, along with much more. En espanol: #2870
Tags: U.S. Department of Transportation; fraud; roads; airports; construction
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How Safe is Your Food? How to report on food safety and restaurant inspections
This tipsheet is a good guide to investigating food safety. The authors begin by offering tips like "get multiple years of data." Each tip is accompanied by a detailed explanation backed up with the authors' own experience. Then, the tipsheet ends with advice about building a database of restaurant inspections. The authors share their own experience doing this and offer a lot of suggestions to make the database efficient and effective.
Tags: restaurant; food poisoning; city government; food inspectors; FDA; state government; public health and safety
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Panel Discussion on Contract Fraud
Barnes discusses how the Department of Transportation can serve as a valuable source for journalists investigating transportation fraud. He begins by discussing some of the basic information about the Office of the Inspector General, including what it does and how media representatives should contact it. He also discusses the top ten fraud offenses, and how his office is useful in investigating them. Finally, Barnes discusses fraud that can occur in the DOT's Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program. The tipsheet ends with a list of helpful websites, and recaps of some of the DOT's ongoing fraud investigations.
Tags: fraud; transportation; highway; corruption; corporation; minority; congressional testimony; internal audit
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Racial Profiling in US Customs Searches
Dale Russell shares the lessons learned from a recent I-team investigation about racial profiling in US Customs searches at airports. The tipsheet includes helpful facts about human sources, getting original source documents, and using IRE as a resource.
Tags: racial profiling; U.S. customs inspectors; airport security
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Transportation & Infrastructure
How can a journalist extract the juice out of the dozens of databases provided by the Ohio Department of Transportation? Cueing off from a 4-day series published by The Dispatch in 2002, this tipsheet suggests story ideas from these databases. They include stories on highway conditions on every mile of interstate and state highway lanes, and inspection reports that include specific criticisms and details about contractor error and work practices. Other stories include wrongful allocation of highway funds, extra cost overruns in contracts, lack of competition among contract bidders. According to the tipsheet, issues of highway inspectors working overtime, and analysis of traffic volume, accidents, etc. are also possible story ideas.
Tags: highways; contractors; construction; ODOT; intersections; Oglesby Construction of Norwalk; "Paved with Problems"