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 "newspapers" ...
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The Quick and Dirty Varnish Setup(for Django)
Boyle's presentation shows the benefits of using VARNISH for hosting Django apps. It can handle heavy traffic without crashing your site, and allows you to use smaller amount of servers space. (Bonus: Developed by a newspaper company in Norway!)
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Writing without Veils: How to get the story on the record
Nalder discusses how to aggressively report your story, and to get your sources on board. Included in Nalder's tipsheet are helpful interviewing tactics.
Tags: journalism; writing; basics; interviewing; sources;
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Shifting Gears: Investigative Life After Newspapers
The author offers some practical tips to help reporters transition from print journalism to multimedia formats. The tips include advice about writing style, attribution and story structure.
Tags: investigative reporting; writing; broadcast; multimedia journalism
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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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Shifting Gears: Investigative Life After Newspapers
The author offers advice for freelance investigative journalists trying to succeed outside of the newspaper business. The tipsheet includes suggestions to pursue grants and attend professional conferences.
Tags: writing; story ideas; funding
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Web sites and search techniques for reporters
Edds lists online search tools that reporters may find helpful. She breaks the list down into sections: Google, telephone directories; newspaper archives; libraries; sites to find sources; public records and tipsheets.
Tags: internet; sources; online resources; web
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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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Project Rotation System
How to create and run a project oriented newspaper. By creating and rotating teams reporters are able to have time to focus exclusively on investigations.
Tags: editors; reporters; management; investigative teams; editors' track
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Tips for Covering an Undercover Sting
A short lists of tips for gathering footage from undercover stings. Tips include how to plan and what equipment to use.
Tags: dv camera; technology; undercover; law; planning; organizing; Broadcast track
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Statistics For the Newsroom
LaFleur provides an explanation of the different types of data, including categorical and continuous. The idea of mixing these types is explored, and many examples of newspapers using statistics to find and flesh out stories are included.
Tags: Gini coefficient; categorical data; dichotomous data; ordinal data; continuous data