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 "Army" ...
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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.
Tags: military; breaking news; army
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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.
Tags: veterans; military; traumatic brain injury; Afghanistan; Iraq; Marines; Army; Navy; sleeping disorders; post traumatic stress disorder; government
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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
Tags: military; armed forces; military records; service records; contractors; Army; Navy; Air Force; Marines; National Guard; war; Iraq; Afghanistan;
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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
Tags: military; contacts; Pentagon; Pen and Sword: A Journalist's Guide to Covering the Military; Ed Offley; Army; Marines; POGO; Project on Government Oversight; The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment; CSBA
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Skytales: Military Dispatches
This very extensive tipsheet goes into great detail about covering the military. Fabey discusses how to approach military investigations, how to work around common Defense Department excuses, how to find military records and how to build your own database of military intelligence. The tipsheet also includes many examples of Fabey's own military reporting.
Tags: military; defense; FOIA; federal government; army; data negotiation; story ideas; beat reporting
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Digging in the Defense Department medical data mines
Kennedy discusses sources and advice for covering military medical issues. She includes suggestions for backgrounding stories and finding information from out of the way places, like blogs.
Tags: military; army; Iraq; health care; sources; backgrounding; internet research
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How to Pursue a Veterans' Scandal
Kors lists and explains twenty techniques he learned while investigating how military doctors misdiagnose veterans, labeling them mentally ill in order to deny them medical care and disability pay. His twenty tips cover speaking with soldiers, dealing with Military PR people, talking with commanders and army doctors, and setting up email alerts to stay informed.
Tags: interview techniques; RSS feeds; army; military; Iraq; mental illness; sources
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First Day on the Military Beat
Some basic guidlines on reporting on the military as well as some sources that can be used. Also a copy of the 2005 "Annual Report to the President and Congress" by Rumsfeld is attached.
Tags: military; defense; department of defense; navy; army; marines; beat reporting
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Military Data: Contracts Casualties
This tipsheet is a good guide to investigating the military. Fabey discusses how to take advantage of the military's love of records and find the good investigative stories buried in the databases. He discusses which data analysis programs to use, as well as how to spot the discrepancies that could lead to a story. One very helpful think Fabey does is explain why some things, like sudden increases in the cost of ships, may seems indicative of a good story but are really quite routine for the military.
Tags: war reporting; military; federal government; contracts; federal spending; army
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CAR and the Environment
Waite offers five tips for using CAR to investigate the environment. Waite says that the amount of environmental data available can be overwhelming; these tips are meant to help reporters stay organized, focus on the investigation and ask the right questions.
Tags: environmental reporting; beat reporting; water; air; pollution; Army Corps of Engineers