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 "Iraq" ...
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Homecoming: Covering the Returning
This tipsheet outlines story ideas for covering returning veterans. It includes things that may be issues within your community and how to approach these stories. Kennedy also includes tips on how to interview veterans.
Tags: veterans; military; traumatic brain injury; Afghanistan; Iraq; Marines; Army; Navy; sleeping disorders; post traumatic stress disorder; government
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Military Beat Handout
Capaccio's tipsheet arms reporters with key tips and strategies for covering the military. He gives tips for your first week on the beat, as well as information on: contractor deaths; phone lists; social media; enforcers; obtaining military records/fakes; analysts. He details why these are important and provides helpful links
Tags: military; armed forces; military records; service records; contractors; Army; Navy; Air Force; Marines; National Guard; war; Iraq; Afghanistan;
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Covering returning war veterans
Thompson outlines tips for how to covering returning war veterans. He gives tips for gathering information on soldiers - such as utilizing social networking tools and the benefit of using former soldiers and officers as resources in your reporting.
Tags: veterans; military; Iraq; Afghanistan; facebook; social networking; war reporting; soldier;
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Iraq: Exposing Truths About the War
This tipsheet goes into great detail about how to find story ideas from the FedBizOpps website, which lists many federal contracts. The author explains how to find contracts for Iraq, and then where to look for details (like the dollar amount of the contract) that will turn into interesting stories. The author also lists several other useful websites for covering the Iraq war, as well as advice for embedded reporters.
Tags: Iraq; federal contracts; federal government; internet searching; sources; military
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Digging in the Defense Department medical data mines
Kennedy discusses sources and advice for covering military medical issues. She includes suggestions for backgrounding stories and finding information from out of the way places, like blogs.
Tags: military; army; Iraq; health care; sources; backgrounding; internet research
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How to Pursue a Veterans' Scandal
Kors lists and explains twenty techniques he learned while investigating how military doctors misdiagnose veterans, labeling them mentally ill in order to deny them medical care and disability pay. His twenty tips cover speaking with soldiers, dealing with Military PR people, talking with commanders and army doctors, and setting up email alerts to stay informed.
Tags: interview techniques; RSS feeds; army; military; Iraq; mental illness; sources
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Women journalists doing international investigations
Walt offers crucial advice for female journalists working in Middle Eastern and other Islamic countries. Her suggestions emphasize safety and adherence to cultural norms, as well as guidelines for interacting with local service providers and freelancers.
Tags: women; international reporting; Islam; Muslim; Middle East; Iraq; Afghanistan; Iran; Pakistan
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Irakgate, the Finnish Watergate: How the first female prime minister of Finland had to resign
The author reviews the circumstances leading to the dramatic resignation of Anneli Jaatteenmaki, the first woman prime minister of Finland. The author discusses various aspects of the political scandal, including how the prime minister obtained and made public some confidential reports from talks between George W. Bush and Finland's previous prime minister about Iraq.
Tags: war; Iraq; confidential sources; political scandal; elections; voting; government
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Military Records and Useful Web sites
Capaccio's tipsheet is packed with information about how to cover the military. He lists websites to research budgets and weapons, personnel deployment, Iraq contractor deaths, and military audits.He also tells you how to get the Pentagon Current News Early Bird news summary, and gives samples of some of the above-listed reports.
Tags: Pentagon; budgets; Iraq web sites; statistics; military personnel; procurement; military contractors
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Military Records and Useful Web Sites
This tipsheet lists many Web sites and sources of information for reporters covering defense and the military. Besides sources of general military information, this tipsheet includes tips on investigating major weapons programs, contractors, budgets and weapons performance.
Tags: military; weapons; defense; contracts; federal spending; weapons performance; defense programs; weapons programs; budget; House and Senate Armed Services committees; Directorate for Information Operations and Reports; Defense Contract Award Agency; DMCA; Commerce Department; Iraq; personnel; military rank; Pentagon; Army; Navy; Air Force