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 "Breaking News" ...
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Dig deeper with social tools
Learn how to find people, companies, experts and other sources and how to use geo-location features to cover breaking news. Use the tipsheet to discover new ways to use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and mobile apps to improve your stories.
Tags: Social media; Twitter; Facebook; LinkedIn; mobile apps; sourcing; breaking news coverage
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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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Putting It All Together: Breaking News and Disaster Coverage
Learn tips about how to sucessfully report on breaking news and cover disasters.
Tags: Breaking News; Disaster Coverage
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Broadcast: After Breaking News, What's Next?
This tipsheet is comprised of many useful web links covering topics of aviation accidents, automobiles and trucks, political campaign data, federal spending, U.S. court system, crime, business records, weather and more.
Tags: aviation; transportation; accidents; weather; government; federal spending; courts; crime
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Investigations in the Fast Lane: Some Rules for the Road
Be prepared and have a plan for when the breaking news happens. Forsyth gives great tips on what to do when the story breaks.
Tags: breaking news
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Broadcast: After breaking news, what's next? (PowerPoint)
Turn to these tips after a break news story and you'll have your viewers turning to your station day after day.
Tags: breaking news; broadcast
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Investigating After Weather Disaster
Finley, winner of Breaking News Investigation category-IRE 2011, describes in detail what to do before, during, and after the weather strikes.
Tags: natural disaster; flooding; tornado; hurricane; disaster planing
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Ready when the story breaks
This tipsheet offers ways to include data in a breaking news story or when you're on a tight deadline. The author offers a database of websites to keep on hand, as well as tips on analyzing data "using your own software."
Tags: databases; raw data; analyze; plane crash; car accident; OSHA; NOAA; NICAR; CAR
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Working the Edges
This tipsheet addresses being ready to cover disasters - beginning with a "spot-news" checklist, and recommendations for handling coverage once a disaster happens.
Tags: breaking news; disasters; broadcast
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Doing Quantity and Quality
Limor's tipsheet discusses reporting methods that keep the broadcast reporter ever-ready for quick hit stories and indispensable in the newsroom. She also discusses how to go about the in-depth investigations, and ideas for sweeps week. Included in this document is an extensive list of valuable websites for data that can drive your investigations.
Tags: quick hit; broadcast; general assignment reporting; in-depth investigations; breaking news; data