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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Covering Nonprofits and Private Companies
Find out who is working for the underdog, and who's not. Gary Cohn shares his years of experience, including digging into the new Form 990.
Tags: nonprofits; private companies; 990 tax form,
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Education Beat Tool Box
This tipsheet outlines how data helps you cover the education beat; what materials you have a legal right to; what data is collected; who works for the schools; where the money goes; and other "must see" documents.
Tags: education; data; databases; schools; students; teachers; private schools; charter schools
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Resources for the Education Beat
This tipsheet is simply a list of 32 resources for covering schools - agencies and their websites. (Five of them are specific to the state of Michigan.)
Tags: education; schools; Department of Education; Education statistics; ERIC; private schools; charter schools; stimulus; health and human services; Education Writers Association (EWA)
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Investigative Business Journalism
Cohn's detailed tipsheet discusses investigative tips and techniques for covering foundations, nonprofits and charities with examples of the types of documents and resources critical to this type of reporting - from 990s to human sources. Part 2 of the tipsheet explores investigations of private companies.
Tags: nonprofit; charity; foundation; private business; Internal Revenue Service; IRS; Form 990; 990s; consolidated financial statements; civil court; criminal court; federal agencies; FOIA
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Higher education: Examining college finances
Blumenstyk details the varying sources for funding and expenditures in higher education. Included with the tipsheet is a listing of The Chronicle of Higher Education’s online databases about academe.
Tags: education; college; university; spending; private schools; public schools;
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Sports business: Investigating teams and companies that own them
Upton outlines information pertinent to covering sports - from professional teams down to high school athletics. She identifies key issues worth investigating for each category. She has also collected some miscellaneous resources that may be beneficial when covering sports.
Tags: sports; professional athletes; immigration; unions; NFL; NHL; NBA; agents; endorsements; college athletics; private school; public school; NCAA; Olympics;
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American FactFinder: A beginner’s guide to getting just a little local census data
How does a beginner with just a browser and a spreadsheet keep from drowning in oceans of census data? One way is American FactFinder, the Census Bureau’s data dissemination site. After a long, clumsy development stage, it has steadily improved. It offers so much -- and several ways of finding it -- that it takes a little work to learn the navigation. But it’s now pretty simple to drill down to a small area, extract just a little data and download or print it. Here’s a step-by-step guide to getting just one county worth of neighborhood-level data on one subject, a typical task for many newsrooms. The example uses Census 2000 public and private school enrollment for Bucks County, Pa., but you can adapt as needed:
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Story Ideas
Leamy gives two sets of story ideas regarding consumer issues in this informative tipsheet. The first set deals with story ideas surrounding people or companies breaking laws or regulations. The second set concerns non-regulated areas and the stories you can find there. These story ideas are great for newspapers, magazines, and broadcast stations alike.
Tags: story ideas; consumer issues; regulations; used cars; child exploitation; racial discrimination; home inspections; modeling; credit; pets; pharmacies; ADA; FDA; predatory lenders; FOIA; beauty salons; car repair; cemeteries; solicitation; pyramid schemes; charities; hospitals; headhunters; hazing; pay phones; fire engine chasing; roadside zoos; private schools; spam; lead poisoning; interior design