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 "transit" ...
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Getting Your Investigations Online...And Giving them Punch
The author offers advice for transitioning your story from a broadcast piece to a more in-depth online investigation. Thompson discusses web exclusives, as well as ways to lure readers to the website. Finally, the tipsheet lists successful web investigations from around the country.
Tags: online publishing; web reporting; internet presence; multimedia reporting; website
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Shifting Gears: Investigative Life After Newspapers
The author offers some practical tips to help reporters transition from print journalism to multimedia formats. The tips include advice about writing style, attribution and story structure.
Tags: investigative reporting; writing; broadcast; multimedia journalism
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Reporting to Editing: Or, How I learned to stop worrying and love meetings
Tanfani writes for the new editor. He discusses managing the transition from reporter to editor, managing your reporters, helping reporters manage the project, and remaining in touch with the rest of your newsroom, as well as your old sources.
Tags: neophyte editor; neophyte reporter; organizing investigation; sourcing; prioritizing; dream story; fallback story; tracking; filing; editors' track
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Spanish Translation of Reporting on Federally-Funded Highway and Transit Projects
This is the Spanish translation of tipsheet #2683. Informacion general para investigaciones sobre construccion de carreteras, aeropuertos y proyectos de transito financiados con fondos federales.
Tags: carreteras; transito; fondos federales; transporte; construccion;
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Navigating Transportation Data: Covering Accidents and Infrastructure
The authors list both sources and story ideas related to transportation. They include sources for stories about vehicle accidents, transportation infrastructure, and public transit. The authors also discuss some recent stories on this topic and include tips and advice for reporters pursuing similar investigations. Finally, they list some IRE resources about transportation.
Tags: automobiles; cars; highways; railways; transit authority; bridges; public records; traffic accidents
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Reporting on Federally-Funded Transportation Projects
This is a copy of David Barnes' speech about reporting on transportation projects. En espanol: #2871
Tags: U.S. Department of Transportation; fraud; roads; transit; airports; construction
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Reporting on Federally-Funded Highway and Transit Projects
This tipsheet provides assistance for reporters who are covering highway, transit and airport construction projects that involve the use of federal funds. Barnes provides an oversight of federal transportation funds, common contract fraud schemes, ways to find problems during construction projects and helpful Web sites, along with much more. En espanol: #2870
Tags: U.S. Department of Transportation; fraud; roads; airports; construction
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Sources for Covering Your Local Transit Agency
McGinty provides sources and what you can find by using them, such as the National Transit Database and Florida International University's database. Both contain dozens of spreadsheets with ridership information, revenue, crime data and so on. McGinty also lists some must-read documents for covering transit in your area.
Tags: Transportation; public transportation; U.S. census data; urban mobility; NTD; metropolitan transit
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Mining Census for Non-Census Stories
This tipsheet reveals that census data can be key to stories about proximity, inequality, government resources and per capita spending, ethnic identity, and children and family issues. The handout provides examples of stories that newspapers have done on wildfires, transit services, police deployment and other.
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Mapping the Census
Overlaying census with other kinds of data will yield stories, just as mapping software and maps will help reporters to better show trends and illustrate the stories. Included here are helpful Web sites, books, and what kinds of stories are aided by maps.
Tags: crime mapping; demography; transit authority maps; flood maps; tornado databases; SF3 data; GIS; geographic information systems