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 "newsroom" ...
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The one-query story: Quick hits for your newsroom
Amaze your editors and wow your readers with these quick-hit data story ideas. Learn techniques on how to look for the short-form watchdog and how to juggle it all. Afflict the comfortable by fact-checking their statements, find expert sources and use spreadsheets to inform your next project.
Tags: spreadsheets; query; data; car
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Data-Driven Beats
How can the tools and techniques used in data journalism be applied to the day-to-day demands of beat reporting? What challenges do newsrooms face reorganizing and adding structure to beats? We'll share our experiences building sites like Homicide Watch DC and PolitiFact, and look at examples of other projects that add structure and data to daily beat reporting. http://eyeseast.github.io/data-beats/
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Practical machine learning: Tips, tricks and real-world examples for machine learning in the newsroom
Learn how to apply machine learning in the newsroom from examples from real-world projects, including building intelligent regular expressions with maximum entropy models; using Bayesian classifiers to filter documents; and linear and logistic regression.
Tags: Machine learning; news reporting; entropy models; filters; linear regression; logistic regression
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Tracking your impact
Hasler gives great tips on how you can track your impact to show your readers and funders what your reach is.
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Tight, bright, sleep well at night!
Garcia lays out a simple game plan for a successful investigation in his Powerpoint presentation.
Tags: story management; timeline
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The Business of training
Bergantino's Powerpoint describes how newsrooms and nonprofits can add to their bottom line by offering training. Included are great tips and questions to ask yourself.
Tags: training; education; newsrooms; nonprofits
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Revisiting Diversity: Not Why But How. A Look at Some Best Practices
Jue and Williams give you tips on how to keep your newsroom as diverse as possible.
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Broadcast: Doing it for free
Do more with less by following these tips, including how to travel on a dime and how to get legal fees covered by your newsroom.
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Bulletproofing in the heat of deadline
Thompson provides 10 tips to bulletproof a story in the heat of the deadline. From thinking like a lawyer to working directly with the copy editor.
Tags: bulletproofing; deadlines; libel
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Managing Multimedia Projects
Managers, use this tipsheet and end up with a "rich multimedia project". From start to finish, Ciotta, DeBarros and Moughty will guide you along the way.
Tags: multimedia; multiplatform; managing; deadlines; progress