The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. These stories 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. Stories are not available for download but can be easily ordered by contacting the Resource Center:
Search results for "bullying" ...
-
Minnesota: Weak on Bullying
The report details the state-required policies that Minnesota school districts use to guide their responses to bullying.
Tags: bullying; bullying laws; high school; elementary school
-
Your Right to Know
A reporter for the Columbus Dispatch began publishing a blog designed to educate Ohioans about their rights to access public records and meetings. The blog is also used as a bully pulpit to point out government abuses in withholding records from the public and news media.
Tags: blog; open records; Sunshine Laws; FOIA; Freedom of Information Act; public records
-
The Carmel Assault Case
The WTHR team investigates the alleged attack of a 14-year-old boy by three senior basketball players. The school dismissed it as a case of bullying, but a relentless push for Open Records revealed criminal activity.
Tags: bullying; open records; high school; school; bully
-
Go Army or Go to Jail
The Commanding General over recruiting for the entire United States Army had made a promise to KHOU: the overly aggressive, even illegal tactics the station uncovered three years earlier would be corrected. The station believed him. Sadly, they discovered they were sorely mistaken. "Go Army or Go to Jail" is a follow-up story but it also broke new ground in the investigation. The investigators uncovered new and illegal tactics the Army uses to force unwilling teenagers to join its ranks and solve a new problem: the number of participants in something called the delayed entry program had dwindled to an all-time low. Some recruiters' solution? To bully, threatened and lie to teenagers and their families in hopes of making mission and meeting quota. Their findings spurred the station to search for and discover what some believe is the very root of Army recruiting abuses that have gone on for years. The investigation contends that the U.S. Army has, quite simply, ignored recommendation after recommendation from the investigative arm of Congress on how the Army could reform.
Tags: U.S. Army; recruiting; investigation; follow-up; Houston; Texas; U.S. Government Accountability Office
-
Bullies with Badges
Johson County, TX has had allegations of prisoner abuse, and the Fort Worth Weekly discovered that the county sheriff admitted to abuse happening in the prisons. It was found that one police force in Johnson County has been arresting about 10 percent of the population annually, leading to the near full prison.
Tags: maximum security; jail; cops; officer; Patsy Keifer; Bob Alford
-
Religious Intolerance in the U.S. Air Force Academy
This story exposed incidents of religious bullying and an atmosphere of religious intolerance at the U.S. Air Force Academy. It includes the first television interview with Melinda Morton, the Air Force Academy Chaplain who blew the whistle about religious bigotry at the academy. Morton's charges spawned a Pentagon task force and generated interest from Congress. The academy's superintendent retired early after the charges became public.
Tags: religion; evangelical Christian; Air Force Academy; discrimination; Air Force
-
The Bully Project
WITI-TV caught a seven-year-old student being brutally attacked by other students on a playground as teachers standby. The tape and other reports of bullying at school spurred an investigative story by WITI-TV and eventually led to a public service program that helps hundreds of thousands of Wisconsin children. The Bully Project gives students and parents information about school bullying and offers them tips on how to prevent it.
Tags: The Bully Project; school abuse; Department of Health and Family Services; PTA; public service programs
-
"Roughed up at recess"
Undercover surveillance at 52 schools representing five of the state's largest school districts revealed how widespread violence and bullying were on the playground. The investigation focused on the problem of bullying and its causes, contributing factors and possible solutions. The set of stories now serve as educational tools for parents, teachers and administrators statewide.
Tags: school violence; bullying; playgrounds; hidden-camera investigation
-
Wring Out The Old
Never say never in the telecommunications industry. This is precisely what the young heads of QWest learnt after their manic adrenaline rush while writing off old-school US West employees and boasting of new rapid business models. Westword analyzes the full circle that QWest have come after nearly bullying over telephone company US West and firing their employees. Riding high on the stock wave soon after they took off, the new-age telecom player (QWest) were eaten up by the dotcom bust in the late '90's. Currently they face allegations of all sorts- from SEC filings to unfair pensioners policies and biased executive compensation packages.
Tags: QWest; Aeillo; US West; telecommunications; Nacchio
-
The Sacred & the Profane
The Riverfront Times finds that "Father Lawrence Biondi is praised for revamping the campus of St. Louis University and boosting its endowment. But the enemies he's made along the way claim that behind the fountains, statues and donations stands a Jesuit bully who's more interested in the material than the spiritual.
Tags: St. Louis University; colleges; Catholic colleges; Jesuit; endowments