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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Investigating Senior Issues
This tipsheet suggests several story ideas about issues that affect senior citizens. The authors draw upon their experiences reporting "Bogus Billing" for WPTC and offer suggestions and resources for other reporters interesting in pursuing a story about seniors.
Tags: senior citizens; Medicaid; fraud; assisted living
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Spanish translation of
This is the Spanish translation of tipsheet #2745. Guckian da una serie de pautas a seguir cuando se reportan elecciones, campanas, etc. Proporciona informacion util acerca de los periodos que tienen las empresas para presentar sus reportes y las fechas limites; las leyes federales y de Texas que limitan los regalos para campanas, asi como lugares donde encontrar informacion y problemas comunes con analisis de datos y mas.
Tags: 2745; elecciones; contribuciones a campañas; politica; comites de partidos; comites politicos; dinero electoral; lobby; cabildeo; fraude; espanol
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Spanish translation of
This is the Spanish translation of tipsheet #2683. Proporciona ayuda a los reporteros que cubren proyectos de transito, construccion de carreteras y aeropuertos financiados con fondos federales. Barnes da un vistazo general a los fondos federales de transporte, los esquemas de fraude contractuales mas comunes, maneras de detectar problemas durante los proyectos de construccion y sitios web de utilidad para lo mismo.
Tags: U.S. Department of Transportation; Departamento de Transporte de los Estados Unidos; fraude; carreteras; aeropuertos; construcciones; proyectos financiados con fondos federales; espanol; 2683
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Harvesting Cash: Tracking the money in U.S. farm subsidies
Cohen discusses her 2006 investigation into farm subsidy and crop insurance fraud. She explains the records and data she analyzed to report the story and the results she found.
Tags: farming; industry; federal government; fraud; data analysis; agriculture
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Farming for Stories
Clarke offers some ideas about how to use USDA data for agricultural CAR projects. She includes tips about how to spot fraud, along with other story ideas. Clarke also lists several resources that could be useful for this sort of project, such as the Environmental Working Group and the Census of Agriculture.
Tags: agriculture; farming; subsidies; computer-assisted reporting; farmers; non-profits; data anlysis
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The Latest in Consumer Fraud Investigations
Cunningham, Gephardt and Goldberg provide a list of story ideas involved with consumer affairs and possible consumer fraud. They give reporters a number of different options to choose from and countless places to look for stories when beginning an investigation into consumer fraud and/or consumer affairs.
Tags: fraud; health care; auto repair; transportation; housing
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Tracking Public Companies
David Heath provides a list of books and Web sites that can help reporters who are trying to uncover corporate deception and gives a brief description of each.
Tags: investigating companies; fraud; corruption; tracking businesses
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Analyzing Campaign Data
Guckian gives guidelines to follow when reporting on elections, campaigns, etc. She provides useful information on filing periods and deadlines, federal laws that limit campaign gifts, Texas laws on the subject, places to find the data and common problems with data analysis, and more.En Espanol: 2888
Tags: elections; campaign money; politics; political action committees; lobbyists; fraud; social network analysis
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Investigating the Aftermath of Disasters
Kestin explains how she and other reporters at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel discovered and revealed $530 million in fraud and waste in FEMA disaster aid nationwide. She provides an overview of FEMA and tells reporters covering disaster stories what things they should be looking for. Kestin also provides a list of sources for these types of stories.
Tags: natural disasters; FEMA; Hurricane Katrina; fraud; federal agencies
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Reporting on Federally-Funded Transportation Projects
This is a copy of David Barnes' speech about reporting on transportation projects. En espanol: #2871
Tags: U.S. Department of Transportation; fraud; roads; transit; airports; construction