Tipsheets
Tipsheets
Browse more 5,000 tipsheets from our national conferences and Watchdog Workshops on how to cover specific beats, conduct a great interview and learn countless tips on where to find the information you need.
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Successfully reporting on the military
This tipsheet offers current "notes from the field" from experienced journalists on how to navigate closed-off waters in order to effectively report on the U.S. military. -
How to use audio to break assumptions and create empathy
Michigan Radio and NPR’s podcast "Believed" moved beyond the headlines for an intimate look at how a detective, prosecutor and army of survivors brought down former U.S.A. Gymnastics doctor and serial sex offender, Larry Nassar. In this tipsheet, learn how Kate Wells and Lindsey Smith investigated Nassar's assaults through the voices and experiences of his victims and their families to capture listeners and hit the number one spot on the iTunes chart. -
Reporting on guns presentation
With more guns than people in the U.S., you’d think there would be an army of journalists covering every aspect of guns, from gun violence to the business of guns to gun policy and everything in between. The reality is, there are precious few journalism resources dedicated to consistent coverage of guns. Most newsrooms only get involved when there’s a mass shooting. This presentation includes stories from some of the best in the business as we talk about how to cover guns and highlight recent in-depth reporting on them. We aim to send you back to your newsroom with story ideas you can execute right away, along with resources you can use for the long haul. -
The Bot Emporium
Do you or others in your newsroom do some of the same tasks over and over? Are there stories you'd like to get, but they seem like they'd need too much manual copy-and-paste work? Are you a reporter or editor who just wants to know about updates to data sets online? In this PowerPoint presentation, you'll learn about a variety of services, libraries, tutorials and other tools to help you build your own bot army. -
The Bot Emporium
Do you or others in your newsroom do some of the same tasks over and over? Are there stories you'd like to get, but they seem like they'd need too much manual copy-and-paste work? Are you a reporter or editor who just wants to know about updates to data sets online? In this tipsheet, you'll learn about a variety of services, libraries, tutorials and other tools to help you build your own bot army. -
Lightning talks (Sponsored by John S. and James L. Knight Foundation)
"Refactoring; or Why Your Code Sucks and How to Fix It" by Chris Groskopf "A Few of My Favorite Wee Things" by Lena Groeger "Natural Language Processing in the Kitchen" by Anthony Pesce "Five (more) algorithms in five (more) minutes" by Chase Davis "What we can learn from terrible data viz" by Katie Park "Practical Calculus" by Steven Rich "Detecting What Isn't There" by Sisi Wei "The whole internet in 5 minutes!" by Jeremy Bowers "How to Raise an Army" by Tyler Fisher "You Must Learn" by Ben Welsh -
Covering Breaking Military News
Capaccio gives extensive tips on how to cover breaking military news. From numbers to call and websites to check, you'll have everything you need from this tipsheet. -
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. -
Military Beat Handout
Capaccio's tipsheet arms reporters with key tips and strategies for covering the military. He gives tips for your first week on the beat, as well as information on: contractor deaths; phone lists; social media; enforcers; obtaining military records/fakes; analysts. He details why these are important and provides helpful links -
Covering the Military Beat
Capaccio discusses the challenges of reporting on the military. He suggests resources to familiarize yourself with when you begin to cover this beat, and how to organize yourself so you have the needed resources at hand - from Pentagon URLs to up-to-date phone lists. Included in this document is a chart of Military Insignia and what each stands for by specific branch of the military. He also includes sample documents from military resources