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:
Search results for "news research" ...
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Parachuting In: How to get up to speed quickly
Grimaldi gives tips on the best way to keep organized and stay on top of your investigation when you're new to the story or subject.
Tags: investigaiton; investigative reporting; news research; public records; reporting
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Tips on Backgrounding People
Edds offers sources to find dates of birth, telephone numbers, criminal records, driving histories, financial information, education information and newspaper clips to assist you in backgrounding people.
Tags: backgrouding; internet research; online sources; news research
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On the Beat: Covering Business
The authors list and describe useful websites for business beat reporters. The sites include social networking sites, like LinkedIn, as well as government websites, private business sites, association sites and nonprofit sites. Each listing is accompanied by an explanation of what information is available at the site and how to utilize it.
Tags: business; beat reporting; web searching; internet research; sources
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Finding and Backgrounding People
Scholl lists some resources for backgrounding people. He includes professional sites, free sites and other sources suck as MySpace and Flickr.
Tags: backgrounding; sources; internet research; news research
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Navigating the Social Network Minefield
The authors discuss why social networks have a place in journalism, and how to use them to enhance your stories. They also discuss some ethical and legal issues regarding the use of social networks. The authors include advice for creating compelling visuals from a computer screen. The tipsheet ends with examples of journalism in which social networks have been well utilized.
Tags: social networks; facebook; MySpace; internet research; sourcing; journalism ethics; visual story telling
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Internet Redux
The author lists many useful websites for doing online research. She breaks them into categories: beat reporting; finding experts; tracking trends; geography; business finders; public records; statistics.
Tags: online research; web sites; sources; public records
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Backgrounding People on the Internet (Exercises)
Guckian gives several examples of stories where backgrounding is necessary to good reporting. She discusses the sources she would turn to in those situations.
Tags: backgrounding; internet; research; practice; exercise
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Backgrounding People on the Internet
This extensive guide to researching people online contains a long list of useful sources including news archives, people/business finders, city data, county data, criminal histories and occupational licenses. The tipsheet also includes Guckian's own suggestions about how to get the most out of search engines and public records.
Tags: internet; backgrounding; sources; web sites; people finder; social networking sites
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Internet indexes, search engines and searching tips
Edds lists online resources to help reporters research stories. She breaks the list of resources into sections: newspaper archives; libraries; public records; federal government; Texas; IRE indexes; search engines; and search methods.
Tags: internet; resources; sources; public records; news research
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Backgrounding People on the Internet
Williams lists websites to help reporters background people on the internet. She includes some specialty search engines, such as Zoominfo, as well as databases and subscription-based sites.
Tags: internet; news research; backgrounding; social networking