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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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 the Military Beat
Capaccio discusses the challenges of reporting on the military. He suggests resources to familiarize yourself with when you begin to cover this beat, and how to organize yourself so you have the needed resources at hand - from Pentagon URLs to up-to-date phone lists. Included in this document is a chart of Military Insignia and what each stands for by specific branch of the military. He also includes sample documents from military resources
Tags: military; contacts; Pentagon; Pen and Sword: A Journalist's Guide to Covering the Military; Ed Offley; Army; Marines; POGO; Project on Government Oversight; The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment; CSBA
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First Day on the Military Beat
Some basic guidlines on reporting on the military as well as some sources that can be used. Also a copy of the 2005 "Annual Report to the President and Congress" by Rumsfeld is attached.
Tags: military; defense; department of defense; navy; army; marines; beat reporting
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Uncovering industry pollution
Kim's tipsheet reviews his IRE Award-winning investigation of ocean dumping off the Korean coast and its effects on marine ecosystems. It traces how he started the story, sources he used and the role of scientific research. The tipsheet serves as a how-to guide for ocean pollution research.
Tags: pollution; ocean dumping; ecosystems; contamination; water pollution; science; toxic waste; marine research
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Military Aviation Investigation Coordinates
This tipsheet provides a list of key points of contact within the military, particularly concerning aviation. Names, phone numbers, and email addresses are included for sources within the Military Safety Centers, Navy JAG Office, Naval Center for Cost Analysis, Naval Air Systems Command, FOIA offices, and others. In addition, resources for locating anyone who is or has been in the military are included.
Tags: military; aviation; navy; aviator; marine; seaman; soldier; JAG; NAVAIR; GWAPS; FOIA
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Digging into Environmental Data
Water pollution is not always evident to the naked eye. The damage "happens out of sight, underwater." This tipsheet provides a list of websites and databases that can "help track down polluters and show whether regulatory agencies are protecting the public and environment." Includes sites dealing with historic pollution such as sediment analysis and information on the cleanup of polluted sites, as well as sources for current pollution information through EPA and other databases. Several environmental groups to consult also provided.
Tags: environment; cleanup; pollution; sediments; polluted site cleanup; national pollutant discharge elimination system; NPDES; EPA; toxic release inventory; stormwater; contamination; marine life
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Educate yourself on the military beat
A summary of resources on the military from books, news publications, and web pages.
Tags: military; Army; Navy; Air Force; Marines; defense; security; homeland security; 9/11; September 11; 2001
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Some Useful Web Sites for Military Information
This tipsheet gives many of the best and necessary Web sites for covering the military, including where to find the Uniform Code of Military Justice, DoD directives, and even the handy "acronym finder."
Tags: military; rights; Defense; Army; Navy; Air Force Marines; veterans; awards; maps; vessel register; Jane's Online
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Covering the Post Cold War Military and Defense Industrial World
Knowing the players and the acronyms are two of the first things a reporter covering military issues should know. This extensive tipsheet shows how to figure the "cost" of projects, how to get financial disclosure statements on ranking officers, where to find news on the Pentagon web site, how to assess the military presence in your state, and how to find contractors, to name a few topics.
Tags: Army; Navy; Air Force; Marines; Budgets; Department of Defense; DOD; Defense Contract Management Agency; DCMA; Boeing; Lockheed Martin; audits; inspector general; fake Navy Seals; Vietnam Vets; Air Warfare; bureaucracy; spare parts; missile; Center for Strategic and International Studies; CSIS