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 "Michael Berens" ...
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Finding the Story
Berens outlines three stages of strategy to use when you want to make an enterprise project really pop.
Tags: story ideas; strategy; enterprise projects
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Project Checklist
Award winning reporter, Michael Berens, shares his checklist for when he embarks on a project that is near and dear to him.
Tags: checklist; enterprise projects
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Michael Beren's Powerpoint for: The game plan: Deciding when to do what during an investigation
This is the Powerpoint presentation from Michael Berens on how he navigated and managed his award winning story, Methadone and the Politics of Pain.
Tags: blueprint; strategies; bulletproofing
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Finding the Story
Berens gives great tips on how to break a big enterprise story. "The key is to not only follow your gut but to employ specific strategies that allow you to attack story ideas from new directions." This extensive tipsheet has all you need for a brilliant story.
Tags: enterprise story; research; story ideas
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Project Checklist
Berens shares his fail-safe checklist for discretionary projects. It includes great questions to ask yourself to make your story stand out.
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Project Checklist
Berens presents a 10 point checklist for enterprise projects. He describes it as a "failsafe compass" for discretionary projects (ideas that begin from scratch).
Tags: checklist; reporting; enterprise reporting; investigative reporting
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Story ideas and development
Berens identifies the evolution of the story - from finding the enterprise story idea through the development and writing of it.
Tags: reporting; story idea; enterprise reporting; data; research; documents
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Health Care Survival Guide: Investigating America's Hospitals
Berens tipsheet addresses how to cover the health & science beat. He begins by stressing the 3 F's: "follow the paper; find the expert; and ferret out the research." Berens gives a list of basic public records pertinent to the beat; available databases; and "real world advice" based on his own experience covering health and science.
Tags: health; science; FOIA; medical research; medicine; hospitals; adverse event reporting; MAUDE; Manufacterer and User Facility Device Experience; Excluded Individuals Database
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The Art of the Interview: how to do great interview, on the fly or going dee
Hall give reporters tips for doing great interviews in any situation. He advises that reporters know their story before going into the interview, and gives detailed information regarding how one should adequately prepare. Included in the tipsheet is information on executing the interview, and the follow-up.
Tags: interviewing; interviews; Eric Nalder; john Ullmann; Mike McGraw; Joe Stephens; Christine Willmesen, Jane Hansen, Mark Skertic, David Cay Johnston; Diana Henriques; Michael Berens; interviewing tipsheets
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Investigating health care: Essential public records
This tipsheet offers a massive list of available public records that would be a boost to any reporter covering health care. Links to other sources of information are included, as well as some "tricks of the trade." The end of the tipsheet is a sample of some documents.
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