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 "Disasters coverage" ...
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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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Covering Natural Disasters
Covering natural disasters can be an overwhelming task, use these tips from McClure, Chief Environmental Correspondent at InvestigateWest. He provides advice for before the weather starts.
Tags: tornadoes; hurricanes; floods; post-disaster coverage
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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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Databases in Disaster
Kucharski details how to report on natural disasters with the assistance of databases. He covered the June 2008 flooding in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. "Databases played an important role in our coverage as the community went from a state of shock to rebuilding. We used databases in three main ways: simple searchable databases providing basic community information, as a tool to assist our ongoing reporting and as a stand-alone storytelling tool."
Tags: natural disasters; disasters; flooding; databases; computer-assisted reporting; CAR; assessor
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Tracking a Wildfire
The authors discuss how to quickly build maps that will enhance coverage of wild fires. They discuss where to find shapefiles of the affected areas and how to acquire incident command structure reports which include valuable information about how fires were started and fought. The authors then describe how to use those two pieces of data (shapefiles and ICS reports) to create a time line of the fire. The tipsheet ends with a list of other resources that might be useful for reporters covering fires.
Tags: fire; GIS; mapping; shapefiles; Google maps; Forest Service
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After the storm: Using FEMA records to piece together winners & losers
Gaul's tipsheet outlines approaches to analyzing Federal Emergency Management Administration records to show "how the breathless coverage of storms greases the skids for disaster declarations." Tips include tracking how, where and to whom FEMA dollars are allocated following a disaster, whether National Flood Insurance Program premiums are covering expenses, and who are receiving Small Business Administration loans following a disaster.
Tags: disasters; FEMA; Federal Emergency Management Administration; National Flood Insurance Program; NLIP; Small Business Administration; SBA; CAR; computer-assisted reporting
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Tipsheet No: 1059
This tipsheet includes several stories on crime, plane crashes, fire accidents and chemical explosions published in different newspapers and magazines. Specifically, the names of the publications are: Newsday, Los Angeles Times, The Hartford Courant, The Baltimore Sun and The Morning Call.
Tags: Murder; Accidents; Mass-murder; Suicide; Disasters coverage
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Some Basic Tips on Disaster Coverage; Earthquake Numbers and Experts...
This handouts provides reporters with some of Meyer's experiences with covering disasters, and tips for improving disaster coverage. Also included is a listing of earthquake experts (including phone numbers) and a memo on covering disasters.
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Tipsheet No: 244
"Covering the Aftermath of a Disaster" makes suggestions for disaster-coverage, particularly focusing on preparedness; tips are listed under the following categories: Preparing for disaster-the basics, a place to work, communications, other equipment, transportation, assignments and A final word.
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