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 "violence" ...
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Finding danger in data, Powerpoint
Purcell's Powerpoint presentation offers insight on how he and his team used data to uncover the dangers within the Philadelphia school system.
Tags: data; Assault on Learning; school violence; crime
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The Hidden Life of Guns
In this tipsheet, Grimaldi shares how The Washington Post reported the story, The Hidden Life of Guns, which won the 2010 IRE FOI Award. He provides a day-by-day account of the series of events the unfolded as the reporting took place. He also includes a source list of important interest groups.
Tags: firearms; weapons; NRA; ATF; gun violence; gun crimes; gun dealers
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Children and Trauma: Interviewing Tips
Black provides interview guidelines for reporters interviewing children who have been through traumatic events. She provides general guidelines, as well as details for interviews at the scene of a crime or disaster; covers interview pointers for past traumas, too. (Available in English and Spanish.)
Tags: children; trauma; disasters; crime; violence; grave illness; guidelines
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Moving abuse stories beyond the courthouse
Davis talks about covering abuse - but steering clear of the "extraordinary" cases and focusing on the other stories. He suggests delving into how often abuse happens, why it keeps occurring, and how the system fails at prevention of abuse.
Tags: case-tracking systems; public documents; domestic violence; abuse; Complaints and Settlements; Broken Trust; Sarasota Herald-Tribune; Coaches Who Prey; Seattle Times; The ABCs of Betrayal; The Columbus Dispatch
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From Database to Story - A Step-by-step Guide
Harbord and McKie show how you can utilize OSHA data to tell the story of workplace safety in non-traditional industries such as healthcare, schools (e.g., violence) and business (carpal tunnel syndrome). Their tipsheet walks you through the process of analyzing the data. And how to compare this information to other data sets to obtain a more complete sense of "the story."
Tags: data; database; OSHA; query; NAICS; excel; pivot tables; inspections; NICAR; National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting
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Using Data and Documents to Investigate Schools
This tipsheet lists and explains 27 sources of data and documents that will help turn an education beat into a watchdog beat. The tipsheet includes sources for charter schools' information, school violence, test scores, administrative contracts, and safety issues.
Tags: schools; education; school board; state government; local government; sources; beat reporting
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Dying for a Job: CBC News Investigation
excellent tipsheet outlining sources and pitfalls for doing workplace safety investigations. applicable to U.S.
Tags: workplace safety; workplace deaths; accidents; workplace violence;
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Threats in provinces: covering the armed conflict
Manrique explains the threats she received afer reporting on the activities of paramilitary groups in Colombia. The author gives advice on how to report and do investitative journalism in provinces and smaller towns. Spanish version available (2941)
Tags: international reporting; colombia; threats; danger; dangerous assignments; violence; Latin America; latinoamerica; Spanish; espanol; paramilitary groups; 2941
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Investigating Education: Story Topics to Turn Education Into a Watchdog Beat
Ciotta lists topics and provides example questions to get a reporter started with an investigations as well as possible sources. Topics include: safety and security, school violence, zero tolerance, violence, test scores, regression, and fiscal stories.
Tags: education; safety and security; school violence; zero tolerance; violence; test scores; regression; fiscal stories
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Frequent Fire
This is a story Doug Smith and his colleagues did for the LA Times on the small group of officers who were involved in multiple shootings in the line of duty. The story outlines the methods Smith, Lait and Glover used to uncover a pattern of violence among a relatively small number of police officers.
Tags: CAR; LAPD; officer-involved shootings; IAD; urban crime