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 "Adobe" ...
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Kicking Up Your Production a Notch
The authors describe how to utilize Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects to improve broadcast story telling. The tipsheet discusses specific tools, functions and settings in the Adobe applications and how the authors used them to improve their stories.
Tags: technology; visual story-telling; broadcast reporting; AVID; Adobe; Quicktime
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How to Use "PDFtoTEXT"
Porter gives the step-by-step procedure for downloading "PDFtoTEXT" software and then using it to get data from PDF files that you can search, sort, edit and analyze.
Tags: CAR; data analysis; downloading data; databases; PDF files; Adobe files
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Getting the most from the Census Web site
The Census Bureau's web site holds numerous goodies for the average reporter. Overberg breaks down the site into three different categories; tools, places on the site, and overlooked data. Each category contains useful links and explanations.
Tags: Census; web; internet; aerial; acrobat; adobe; html; lookup tables; MABLE; mapping; geocoding; CENStats; MAGGOT; U.S. Gazetteer; MapStats; MapsOnUs; Ferret; DES; PUMS; CPS; international; immigration; housing; wildlife