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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Covering justice in Europe and the U.S.
Sisti gives tips on how to cover crime and justice in Europe and who you need to know to get the information you need.
Tags: International reporting; justice; Abu Omar
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Taming monster datasets: The data specialist’s perspective
Doig gives tips on how to get huge data sets onto your computer and what tools to use on them.
Tags: SQL, SAS; .FTP; Ruby; large data sets
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Social Network Analysis: Tools for connecting the dots
Donald gives examples of some great tools you can use when investigating social networking and provides some cool graphics on how you can display your findings.
Tags: social networks; NodeXL; UCINET; Analyzethe.US; Muckety; They Rule
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Shadow Banking
Fricker provides you with a list of professions whom are considered shadow bankers, the 5 steps of shadow banking, what would be considered shadow lending and much more.
Tags: shadow lending, banking; hedge funds; pension funds; ABS; CDO; ABCP; CDS; Repo; SecLand
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Investigating Poverty
Murphy explains why it's important to cover poverty and gives a brief history of what it entails and how the U.S. defines it.
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Pork: The Post-Earmark Era
Nixon gives tons of examples of how lawmakers are still adding the pork even after earmarking has been banned.
Tags: earmarks; pork; lettermarking;
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Welcome to the world of data: Now what do you do? (T. Thompson Powerpoint)
Thompson gives her tips and examples on what to do after you get the data. She includes what to use Access for, what to use Excel for, what to use Google Maps for and much more.
Tags: data sets; large data; data resources, ideas
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Tight, bright, sleep well at night!
Garcia lays out a simple game plan for a successful investigation in his Powerpoint presentation.
Tags: story management; timeline
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Accountability in Children’s Court
Diedrich gives great tips on how to cover the juvenile justice system and the children that are in and out of it.
Tags: juvenille court; recidivism
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Follow the Money: The Coming Boom in Toll Roads
Use this Powerpoint presentation to learn how to follow the toll road money. Overberg gives a brief history and explains how highway design, finance, construction and operation is changing.