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:
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Using Federal Campaign Expenditure Data
This tipsheet is a good guide to using electronically filed campaign expenditure data. First, Willis offers an explanation of electronic data formats, then he discusses the different types of expenditures. He offers tips on different ways to work with the data through the FEC website. lastly, he warns about some problems to watch out for and offers final tips for the analysis.
Tags: campaign finance data; analysis; FEC; government reporting; elections; voting; python script; FTP server
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Evaluating Net Information
This tipsheet is a chapter from the Third Edition of The Online Journalist; Using the Internet and Other Electronic Resources. In particular, it discusses the MIDIS system to weigh the integrity of data found on the Internet.
Tags: production; site ownership; spelling errors; domain name; WHOIS database; trust meter; credibility; protocols: WAIS; Telnet; Gopher; FTP servers