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 "sports" ...
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Inside baseball: What data journalism can learn from sports
This panel will identify areas for data journalism exploration by examining the current state-of-the-art baseball data analysis. Sports are the original form of data journalism -- box scores predate open government movements by about a century. And Joseph Adler's "Baseball Hacks" trained newbie Web CAR reporters how to scrape and analyze data sets using Perl and MySQL. Finally, sports analytics are a leading indicator for other kinds of analysis. Sensors, economic analysis, leverage are all de rigeur in baseball but still up-and-coming in data journalism. We'll take the concepts being used to analyze baseball, football, soccer and apply them to standard data journalism chores.
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Investigating Shadowy Organizations
Whether you're investigating the CIA or a sports team, use this tipsheet from award winning reporter, Apuzzo, to cover that shadowy organization.
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Integrating CAR
Dowdell and Wert gives advice on the importance of collecting data and the benefits of setting up independent databases, and offer tips on specific subpoints to cover under topics such as Sports, Crime/Public Safety, Education, Business, etc.
Tags: data; databases; investigative methods
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The Unsung Documents of College Athletics
Get tips on investigating the cars, the planes, the meals, and the free tickets that come with the territory of college athletics.
Tags: college athletics; sports; NCAA; violations
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The Unsung Documents of College Athletics
Use these tips from veteran reporter, Riepenhoff, to uncover the payoffs, bribes, and incentives used to get into college athletic games. From new cars, to bookies on the will-call list.
Tags: college athletics; complimentary cars; NCAA
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Investigating Sports
Barr teaches you how to write great sports stories, and how to get the most out of your sports investigations.
Tags: Sports beat; sports investigation; ESPN
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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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Math and Sports Talk
Wilcox discusses how math is used by sports teams, and how to evaluate sports using statistics. He breaks it down by sport: baseball, basketball and football.
Tags: sports; statistics; averages; point value; box scores; NBA efficiency
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Investigating Sports
Wilson lists popular sources and significant documents for reporters on the sports beat. He also suggests visiting www.reporter.org to use the "who is John Doe?" feature. The tipsheet includes reprints of some of Wilson's own sports investigations.
Tags: sports; beat reporting; sources; story-telling; backgrounding
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Sports Science and Medicine: Gettnig Beyond the Gee-Wiz Story
Epstein lists and describes some interesting sports investigations that any reporter could do, anywhere in the country. Examples include pre-participation screening of high school athletes and analyzing nutritional supplements.
Tags: sports; beat reporting; athletes; sources; high school athletes