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 "veterans" ...
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Covering Veteran's Issues
If you're covering any form of veterans' issues, this tipsheet is a must. Included are helpful tips on dealing with families of veterans and what documents to request when filing a FOIA.
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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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Homecoming: Covering the Returning
This tipsheet outlines story ideas for covering returning veterans. It includes things that may be issues within your community and how to approach these stories. Kennedy also includes tips on how to interview veterans.
Tags: veterans; military; traumatic brain injury; Afghanistan; Iraq; Marines; Army; Navy; sleeping disorders; post traumatic stress disorder; government
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Covering returning war veterans
Thompson outlines tips for how to covering returning war veterans. He gives tips for gathering information on soldiers - such as utilizing social networking tools and the benefit of using former soldiers and officers as resources in your reporting.
Tags: veterans; military; Iraq; Afghanistan; facebook; social networking; war reporting; soldier;
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Investigating the casualties of war
This tipsheet discusses how to cultivate and handle your sources when covering war as it is imperative to gain their trust. Also listed are sources for gather information on military personnel, deceased veterans, military unit associations, U.S. casualties, civilian deaths, military justice, military legal systems, and much more.
Tags: veterans; war; military; casualties
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Battling the VA
Adams discusses the approach to covering the Veterans Administration - both as a health system and a disability compensation system. He addresses the challenges of making FOIA requests of the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA). He outlines the data available from the VA, but also discloses the difficulty in having FOIA requests honored
Tags: Veterans Administration; VA; Veterans Benefits Administration; VBA; Comp and Pen Master File; Voard of Veterans Appeals; VACOLS; Veterans Satisfaction Survey; National Survey of Veterans; Vital Signs database; internal VA memos; Monday Morning Reports; National Association of Veterans' Program Administrators; National Association of State Directors of Veterans Affairs; NAVPA; NASDVA; National Association of State Charities Officials; NASCONET
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How to Pursue a Veterans' Scandal
Kors lists and explains twenty techniques he learned while investigating how military doctors misdiagnose veterans, labeling them mentally ill in order to deny them medical care and disability pay. His twenty tips cover speaking with soldiers, dealing with Military PR people, talking with commanders and army doctors, and setting up email alerts to stay informed.
Tags: interview techniques; RSS feeds; army; military; Iraq; mental illness; sources
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Mental illness, medical care and the military: how veterans are mistreated
"Some tips from the Hartford Courant for combining numbers and narratives to produce a powerful project."
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Battling the VA
This tipsheet is a good guide for reporters preparing to investigate the VA. Adams discusses how the agency is structured, as well as what to expect when submitting FOIA requests to the agency. The tipsheet includes information on alternative ways to find VA data, such as specific websites to visit where some of the data is available. The tipsheet ends with an article from the IRE Journal on the same topic.
Tags: veterans; data negotiation; freedom of information; health care; Veterans Health Administration; Veterans Benefits Administration; federal government
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'Killers Among Heroes' in National Cemeteries
Stanley explains how to use cemetery and prison records to find prisoners who were buried in national cemeteries. He discusses various projects on the topic and how they were done.
Tags: death records; prisoners; veterans