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 "DocumentCloud" ...
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Down and dirty with the DocumentCloud API
Welsh talks about how the Los Angeles Times uses DocumentCloud. Learn how to use DocumentCloud's API to interact with your documents and how to update or access documents' data with scripting.
Tags: DocumentCloud; DocumentCloud's API; documents; data; scripting
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Using DocumentCloud
IRE training director, Dowdell, lays out step by step tips on how to get started with DocumentCloud. From uploading your first documents, using the collaboration and notes tools, to publishing your documents. If you're new to DocumentCloud and need a simple, step-by-step guide, you'll want to keep this tipsheet handy.
Tags: documents; documentcloud
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New Frontiers in Computer-Assisted Reporting
Cohen's tipsheet is filled with links and explanations of tools that could be of help to computer-assisted reporting. Included are existing free tools that can be "hijacked" for reporting purposes; and projects to analyze audio, video, visual recording and handwriting.
Tags: computer-assisted reporting; web tools; web-extraction; spreadsheets; datasets; DocumentCloud; Excel; visualization; Comment analysis; extraction engines;