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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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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Military Aviation Safety Data
This tipsheet lists the various websites where each branch of the military publishes information of the safety of its equipment. The tipsheet clarifies the different classifications for aviation accidents (ie the difference between "class A" and "class B" in the database). The tipsheet also defines the different causes for aviation accidents, such as "operations" or "miscellaneous."
Tags: military; safety; naval safety center; navy; coast guard; air force; statistics
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Military Aviation Safety Data
Employing his experiences in the armed forces into CAR, Richard O’Reilly offers his insights on the analyses of safety data that is available from the Army, Navy and Air Force. Though most of these Access databases are not suitable for ‘quick-hit’ analyses on deadline, they can be well customized if a journalist can spare time to learn and perfect these, says O’Reilly.
Tags: Army; navy; airforce; Navy Aviation Safety Database; Fighter Wing
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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
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Uncovering the Military Beat
This 50-page tipsheet leads reporters through the important issues surrounding military coverage, including how to track homeland defense, how to contact important players in the military, and websites that offer useful information about the military. This tipsheet also includes a comprehensive list of military contact information for the Pentagon, Navy, Air Force, State Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Civil Support Teams. Capaccio also included a 9-page Washington Post story about the infamous Osprey that was published in May 2001.
Tags: Military; Osprey; Contact list; Pentagon; Homeland Defense
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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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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