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 "visual reporting" ...
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Web tools for investigators
Learn what free online tools that will help you to enhance on your reporting and investigation. Get tips on social media searches, documents, Web scraping and visualizations.
Tags: Free tools; online tools; story visualization; reporting
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Information design and crossing the digital divide
See examples on how to cater to your audience members' needs visually with images and storytelling.
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TimeFlow: An Analytical timeline for reporters
TimeFlow is "a tool created by reporters....that manages chronologies and timelines." It's intended to help keep notes on long-running stories; compiling materials for disparate projects in a way that allows one to see patterns; organize/reconstruct events. This tipsheet walks one through using the program.
Tags: TimeFlow; timelines; data; organization; visualization; calendar;
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Free software, part deux
Fenton discusses free software available for visualization, Flash development, R for statistics, desktop GIS software, free server software and much more.
Tags: data visualization; server software; GIS; web development; open source; newsapps
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New Frontiers in Computer-Assisted Reporting
Cohen's tipsheet is filled with links and explanations of tools that could be of help to computer-assisted reporting. Included are existing free tools that can be "hijacked" for reporting purposes; and projects to analyze audio, video, visual recording and handwriting.
Tags: computer-assisted reporting; web tools; web-extraction; spreadsheets; datasets; DocumentCloud; Excel; visualization; Comment analysis; extraction engines;
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Text Mining
Bones' tipsheet shows how he mined video for keywords used by 7 party leaders during 7 convention speakers. He used excel and access to analyze the data, and determine the words used most commonly by each of the party leaders.
Tags: text mining; computer-assisted reporting; word clouds; visualization; infographics
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Visualization as a Reporting Tool
Cohen says that reporting with graphics helps each stage of the story. She outlines how to explore visuals early in reporting and lists Web sites that help in building interactive explorations.
Tags: graphics; interactivity; Actionscript; Flash; sparklines; visualization; maps; networks
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Computational Journalism and the 5 Ws
Hamilton describes computational journalism ("the combination of data, algorithms, and knowledge from social science to yield information that can supplement and, in the future, substitute for part of journalism’s watchdog function"), and describes the "why, what, when, who and when" it is necessary for effective reporting.
Tags: computational journalism; social science research; information demands; research; statistical analysis; visualization; mapping; matching; personalization
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Investigating Fraud: Schemes, Scondrels and Scams
The authors discuss how to uncover and report on fraud. The tipsheet offers suggestions for documenting fraud, such as finding a paper trail or videotaping the scheme. Then, the tipsheet discusses how to turn your findings into a well-organized, effective investigative piece. Finally, the tipsheet includes useful websites for finding court records, consumer information, corporations, property records, regulators and more.
Tags: internet sources; undercover investigations; visual story-telling; story ideas; consumer investigations; crime; fraud
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Editor's Track: Editing the CAR Story
Demma offers suggestions for editing the presentation of CAR stories. He suggests you "put faces to the numbers" and "play to strengths." He explains each tip by drawing on his own experiences reporting and presenting CAR stories.
Tags: editing; CAR; visual story telling