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 "shoe-leather reporting" ...
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Borrowers Betrayed: Covering Business as a Crime Scene
This tipsheet details how a computer-assisted reporting investigation into toxic home loans turned into a crime story when in-depth analysis showed 10,000 people with criminal histories had been licensed as mortgage professionals.
Tags: mortgage; subprime; toxic loans; Florida; criminal justice; shoe-leather reporting; fraud; real estate; brokerage; stolen identity
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Cold Case Srebrenica
The author explains how he investigated the 1995 Serbian attack on Srebrenica, a U.N. protected "safe-area." He describes, "How we travelled to several European countries meeting former officials and looking for documents. How we had confrontations with researchers of the official inquiries. And how we researched diametrically opposing official conclusions."
Tags: shoe leather journalism; European politics; war; United Nations; Serbia; Bosnia
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Sex offenders in long-term care facilities
This tipsheet explains how the Tulsa World matched a nursing home database with one of sex offenders and found that 18 registered sex offenders were living in nursing homes. Branstetter offers advice for the actual data analysis, such as how to clean and standardize the data, as well as advice about the shoe-leather reporting aspect of the story. Finally, Branstetter suggests some online resources that are helpful for covering this topic.
Tags: sex offenders; matching; joining databases; Medicare; retirement; assisted-living