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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Turning data into TV and online gold
Discover ways to use data effectively in storytelling -- on the air and online. Digital tools such as data visualizations can boost viewership and audience engagement online. Plus, as people explore your data and key findings, they may find new leads for you to explore. -
Google MyMaps
Make your own colorful, interactive data visualizations in an easy way - that is, Google Maps. No need to learn advanced geographic analysis techniques: Google does almost all of it for you. In this presentation, you will learn how to plot points on a map for better visual storytelling. -
Finding characters in data and documents
No matter how powerful our findings from data and documents, we still need people to propel our story. We’ll show how you can dive into OSHA documents, death-certificate databases and other troves of records to find them. We’ll also touch on the needs of different media, showing, for example, how the right character for print might be the wrong character for radio. -
Driveway moments: The art of long-form audio narrative
This tipsheet covers the essentials of compelling audio storytelling, including getting the most from your meetings with your sources, interviewing for good narrative, as well as building scenes and emotion into your story. -
Driveway moments: The art of long-form audio narrative
This tipsheet covers the essentials of compelling audio storytelling, including getting the most from your meetings with your sources, interviewing for good narrative, as well as building scenes and emotion into your story. -
Make your business stories sing
Business stories are often rooted in numbers, but that doesn’t mean they have to be boring. This presentation will provide tips for identifying the characters and anecdotes that fuel compelling storytelling, approaches for cultivating sources and some non-traditional techniques to get records and data about the businesses you are investigating. -
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. -
Storytelling and the Census
The U.S. Census Bureau collects countless statistics on populations and industries. How do you comb through mountains of data and tell the stories behind the numbers? Gerson Vasquez, data visualization lead for the U.S. Census Bureau, walks you through ways to present Census data to a general audience in a variety of formats, from news stories, podcasts and videos to graphics and interactive visualizations. -
Evolving the true crime podcast
This tipsheet provides advice on how to avoid the pitfalls of the true crime podcast trend, and use thoughtful, investigative work to push forward the genre and audience expectations. -
Visualizing Your Investigation
A presentation for broadcast journalists on how to create eye-catching visuals for investigative stories.