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 "speeding" ...
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Free data tools
Golden lists free tools to use for displaying data, including charts and maps. This is her Powerpoint presentation for: Best practices speed presentations.
Tags: data tools; free; Tableau; Timeflow; Google Fusion
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10 stories for most anywhere
Herzog provides a list of stories that can be done in almost any community and the data you can use to complete them: overtime for public workers; underground fuel tank issues; emergency service response time; parking tickets; problems with voter rolls; daycare inspections; stimulus spending on bridges; speeding tickets; minority home-loan gap; gas pump accuracy
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Understanding EPA
Sullivan discusses how to bring yourself up to speed on the topic of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Sullivan explains how committed efforts to understand the agency pay-off in terms of having a working knowledge of the subject of your investigation.
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Parachuting In: How to get up to speed quickly
Attkisson gives tips on getting up to speed on new stories/investigations. She stesses the importance of "getting on the scene" as imperative to really understanding the story. She identifies different tactics to understanding the importance of what you're covering - understanding why it is significant; following money trails; finding contradictions; etc.
Tags: deadline; investigation; watchdog; interviews; follow the money
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Parachuting In: How to get up to speed quickly
Grimaldi gives tips on the best way to keep organized and stay on top of your investigation when you're new to the story or subject.
Tags: investigaiton; investigative reporting; news research; public records; reporting
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Analyzing Speeding Tickets and Racial Profiling Data
This tipsheet offers several suggestions for good stories about speeding tickets, as well as some insight on how a general traffic stop story can turn into a piece about racial profiling. Hacker offers tips for doing the analysis and lists over a dozen of helpful websites like the Justice Research and Statistics Association.
Tags: traffic; speeding; discrimination; tickets; school zones
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Analyzing Speeding Tickets
This tipsheet explains some of the difficulties of analyzing speeding tickets, and then shows how the resulting story is often worth the effort. Overberg offers some examples of successful stories and includes specific details about each analysis. The tipsheet includes a recent story that Overberg did for Uplink, a NICAR publication, with more advice on the topic.
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Broadcast Skills: Finding Story Ideas
This tipsheet gives step by step instructions on how a database can be used for a TV news story. Nancy Amons gives tips on how to use computer assisted reporting, with the example of a story that tracks the driving histories of people.
Tags: CAR; computer assisted reporting; Computer assisted reporting for broadcast news; tracking driving tickets; speeding tickets
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Know the Law on Public Records
This tip sheet gives resources for "getting up to speed" with state and federal public records laws. Also lists specific websites.
Tags: FOI public records