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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Paper and Databse Trails
Hall discusses the information that an investigative reporter can gather from various data sources including documents and databases. The tipsheet provides a list of documents/records and what sort of information you can anticipate finding with each given example
Tags: documents; FOI; databases; audits; payroll documents; police reports; correspondence; reports; annual budgets; overtime; purchasing records; contracts; campaign finance reports; test scores; tax-exempt organizations; inspection reports
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Tips for Freedom of Information Act Requests
This tipsheet lists half a dozen suggestions for a successful records request. It covers everything from negotiating without the FOIA and how to deal with stubborn government officials.
Tags: open records; freedom of information; data negotiation; paper records; public records
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Education Records
This handout includes a list of education records to use when covering schools and reprints from the Chicago Tribune and the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Tags: education records; schools
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Tipsheet No: 841
Summary of new problems in records access. It provides answers to standard government agency questions, guidelines for requesting records and helpful sources.
Tags: record access; FOIA
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Tips for creating campaign databases from paper records
This handout provides tips for creating campaign database from paper records, and a reprint from the Columbia Journalism Review.
Tags: campaign finance database; paper records; Columbia Journalism Review`
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Tipsheet No: 749
This handout lists records and techniques that can help journalists cover health care. The handout includes relevant questions for journalists to ask themselves when covering health care. Audio tape is available for purchase from the IRE Resource Center. Contact us at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org.
Tags: 1 pgs.
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Tipsheet No: 741
This handout covers how to analyze business records and proxy statements. The handout includes a portion of a form 10-K report from the Securities an Exchange Commission. Audio tape is available for purchase from the IRE Resource Center. Contact us at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org.
Tags: SEC 21 pgs.
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Tipsheet No: 736
This handout covers how to find great investigative stories in court records. The handout includes tips on how to cultivate sources and how to obtain documents. Audio tape is available for purchase from the IRE Resource Center. Contact us at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org.
Tags: 10 pgs.
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Breaking and Entering: How to dissect an organization
This handout covers how to get inside a company, government agency or private association. The handout includes lists of useful records, a twelve-step plan for using public disclosure laws and hints on interviewing people. The packet also contains a series from the Kansas City Star on the National Park Service and a newsletter from the National Charities Bureau. Audio tape is available for purchase from the IRE Resource Center. Contact us at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org.
Tags: Business
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Tipsheet No: 711
McGraw's handout provides tips for checking up on the business of amateur sports. The handout includes suggestions for how to pierce the athletic department veil and what records to request. Audio tape is available for purchase from the IRE Resource Center. Contact us at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org.
Tags: 2 pgs.