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 "Indian casinos" ...
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Gambling & Casino Probes: Membership Disputes
Schechter briefly covers the basic issues on membership disputes, how the Indian gaming industry is or is not regulated, a few tips on the culture, and a few basic statistics on the economics of the industry.
Tags: Casinos; gambling; Indian reservations; tribes; tribal courts
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NIGC's Management Review Process a Failure
This a brief analysis of the process of reviewing contracts between Indian tribes and outside developers and why it doesn't work.
Tags: contracts; developers; casinos; Indian Gaming Regulatory Act; gaming revenues
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Covering Indian Gaming is a Tough Job
It's a tough job but Mike Adams gives you a leg up with this tipsheet. Indian nations are independent and generally do not have FOI laws, but there are ways of getting around that. Adams lists websites and public records that might have information on dealings Indian nations have with entities that DO keep public records. For example, look into the municipal bond market, the National Indian Gaming Commission, and the SEC. He also gives examples of investigations he did into specific tribes and where he found success. He further profiles the National Indian Gaming Comission in a packet available for mail orders.
Tags: Gambling; casinos; Indian nations; tribes; reservations; Bureau of Indian Affairs
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Probes into gambling: From casinos to the reservation
Schechter givens an overview on Indian casinos, tribal membership and gaming regulation.
Tags: gambling; casinos; Indian casinos; reservations
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Gambling Source List
An extremely extensive source list for stories dealing with gambling; categories (with several sources in each) are books, recent studies, government sources, industry publications, gaming research centers, gaming agencies and commissions, crime commissions, paper trails to follow, gambling experts and professors, compulsive gambling groups and anti-gambling groups and contacts.
Tags: casino; organized crime; Indian Gaming Regulatory Act; Atlantic City; Riverboat Gambling