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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Questions to Consider When Selecting Search Engines
The tipsheet shows how to use different search engines when you have different search needs.
Tags: search engine; Google; advanced search
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What They Know
This Powerpoint presentation for the panel, Privacy: Where does access end? by Angwin lays out just how much can be found out about a person on the internet and how to use anonymity online.
Tags: privacy; internet; security; personal information
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Locating the story: The latest in online maps
Welsh lecturing on the potential of using online maps in reporting.
Tags: online; maps; internet; google earth; copycat; osm; open street map; html5
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Broadcast: After Breaking News, What's Next?
This tipsheet is comprised of many useful web links covering topics of aviation accidents, automobiles and trucks, political campaign data, federal spending, U.S. court system, crime, business records, weather and more.
Tags: aviation; transportation; accidents; weather; government; federal spending; courts; crime
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Online Search & Rescue
Shaw provides a plethora of search engines, many you probably haven't heard of yet. His PowerPoint will have you searching like a pro.
Tags: search engines; deep web; YouTube; Bing; Greplin;
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Go beyond Google - Gathering Internet Intelligence
This tipsheet describes how to dig deeper on the web - from profiling businesses to people. It highlights a variety of resources available online that help direct your searches and find information you might not otherwise realize was available.
Tags: internet; web; backgrounding; businesses; people; LinkedIn; social media; twitter; google;
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Introducing Tableau Public
This tipsheet gives an overview of Tableau Public - visualization software for interactive storytelling, but without the need for programming skills.
Tags: data visualization; mapping; software
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The Web as an Investigative Tool
Dowdell outlines how to make the most of the internet as an investigative tool - from creating a search strategy to taking full advantage of the search abilities of the search engine you use. She references public record portals; government information portals; useful social media tools; and other useful tips. She also touches on searching the dead web for archived/cached materials
Tags: deep web; search engines; public records; backgrounding; government information; social media; Boolean logic; RSS feeds
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Social Media for Journalists
Haddix gives insight in to how and why social media tools are useful for journalists.
Tags: facebook; twitter; social media; social networks;
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Effective Use of the Internet
Jaimi Dowdell offers some of the best places on the Web to kick off an investigation.
Tags: Internet; research; non-profits; deep web; searching