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 "Burlington Free Press" ...
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The Ask: Requesting and Negotiating For Records/Data
A guide on how to procure the documents you need in order to launch your investigation. This step-by-step tipsheet takes you through each individual step to gaining access to government records.
Tags: Burlington Free Press; FOI; Open Government Laws; Freedom of Information;
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Furloughs Linked to Crimes
This is an article from the July 5, 1998, Burlington Free Press showing how 44 percent of the prisoners released in the county face new charges. The article includes graphics and a box showing the methods used to obtain and analyze the prisoner data.
Tags: CAR
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Tipsheet No: 572
This packet provides journalists with information that is available and tips for overcoming the inevitable obstacles when covering campus crime. Also includes a "handbook for journalists" from the Student Press Law Center & example investigation by the Burlington Free Press.
Tags: Suburban/Small city clinic: education and crime 65 pgs.