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 "DES" ...
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Exposing Dangerous Caregivers
Kauffman's tipsheet decribes how to use unemployment-benefit claims to track caregiver misconduct; using federal labor records to track caregivers also acting as employers; and quick hit stories that can be done with this information.
Tags: misconduct; medical professionals; unlicensed doctors; physicians; hospitals; licensing boards; HIPPA
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Mapping and DesMoinesRegister.com
This PowerPoint shows the programs that DesMoinesRegister.com uses for mapping stories online. It discusses different types of maps used: bubble maps; icon clustering; polylines & polygons; KLM overlays; ground overlays; Google Earth videos; Flash Google Maps API. Each type of map is linked to an example on DesMoinesRegister.com. Included are useful links for mapping tutorials and other references
Tags: mapping; API; bubble maps; icon clustering; polylines & polygons; KLM overlays; ground overlays; Google Earth videos; Flash Google Maps API
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Fueling a Good Story: Using data to investigate Big Oil and renewable fuels
The author lists and describes a variety of online sources that will help reporters to understand all angles of a fuel-driven investigation. The sources included fall into these categories: renewable energy basics; subsidies, incentives, more taxpayer $$; environment; politics; international trade; and automotive.
Tags: oil; petroleum; fuel; energy; environmental reporting; gasoline; online sources; data acquisition
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Fueling a Good Story: Using data to investigate Big Oil and renewable fuels
The author lists resources for covering the energy beat. She breaks the resources into sections: Renewable energy basics, Subsidies, Environment, Politics, International Trade, Automotive and other. Each resource listed is accompanied by a short description.
Tags: oil; energy; resources; biodiesel; ethanol; gas prices
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Home Mortgage Disclosure Act: Working with new race/ethnicity categories
Paula Lavigne discusses how to use HMDA data to analyze lending variations by race and ethnicity. Lavigne discusses the recent changes in Race/ethnicity reporting requirements and how to best analyze the data.
Tags: HMDA: mortgage; lending; data analysis; race
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Watchdogging homeland security, locally
Dalmer's tipsheet emphasizes the amount of information that can be found in homeland security grant programs, as well as how states determine the allocation of funds. This tipsheet also focuses on finding some context for grant information, as well as how to set up spreadsheets to organize data,
Tags: State Homeland Security Grant Program; Urban Areas Security Initiative
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Sports and the Computer: All star teammates
Witosky offers some helpful ideas and available databases to add an extra depth to sports reporting. This sheet includes five easily acquirable databases for use in depth reporting and four ideas to give depth to daily reporting.
Tags: None
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Getting CAR Started
These tipsheets describe how to get CAR rolling with little money, little time and a smaller staff. It also adds useful insight concerning pitfalls, start-up costs and managing an effective, first-time project.
Tags: CAR
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Sports Franchises: What are they worth? Are they worth it?
A tipsheet that points out the positive and negative sides of sports franchises.
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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