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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Health Analyses for Any Newsroom
Journalists have a duty to report on the hospitals, nursing homes, doctors, and clinics that provide medical treatment to their viewers, readers, and listeners. Learn tricks of the health reporting trade in this tip sheet.
Tags: Health
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Year In Investigations
This PowerPoint from Haddix and Horvit reviews the year in investigations, including IRE award winning reports from CNBC on gun manufacturer, Remington, and ICIJ with the BBC on the global asbestos trade.
Tags: investigations; 2011
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Covering Drug Trafficking and Designer Drugs
Learn about the drug trade beyond pills and pot and into the "new designer drugs, created by savvy, backroom chemists that often circumvent local and federal drug laws to provide a dangerous, but legal high."
Tags: drugs; incense; bath salts; plant food; not for human consumption
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Ways to Trace Every Business
Campbell walks through the steps to investigate a business, outlining the paper trail that all businesses must create - from a business license to Uniform Commercial Code filings to liquor licenses. Litigation filings also provide a wealth of information about businesses.
Tags: backgrounding business; licenses; trademark; articles of incorporation; UCC; Uniform Commercial Code filing; credit reports; mortgages; liens; professional license; litigation; courts; EDGAR; Securities and Exchange Commission; SEC; Federal Trade Commission; FTC; Financial Industry Regulatory Authority; FINRA
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The year in CAR
The tipsheet features a PowerPoint slideshow of notable computer-assisted reporting investigations of 2008.
Tags: computer-assisted reporting; housing; data; trade; education; lobbying; fire; day care; parking; vote; earmarks; inspection; sewage; EveryBlock; airbags; mammogram; arrest; railroad; pothole; sprawl; pesticide; crime; drugs; transplant; scholarship; mental health
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The business beat: Investigating the corruption
A brief summary of sources for mining securities and exchange documents. \"All public companies are required to file reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission disclosing their financial performance, insider trading and much more.\"
Tags: business; trading; Security and Exchange Commission; forms; finance; sales
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Fueling a Good Story: Using data to investigate Big Oil and renewable fuels
The author lists and describes a variety of online sources that will help reporters to understand all angles of a fuel-driven investigation. The sources included fall into these categories: renewable energy basics; subsidies, incentives, more taxpayer $$; environment; politics; international trade; and automotive.
Tags: oil; petroleum; fuel; energy; environmental reporting; gasoline; online sources; data acquisition
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Fueling a Good Story: Using data to investigate Big Oil and renewable fuels
The author lists resources for covering the energy beat. She breaks the resources into sections: Renewable energy basics, Subsidies, Environment, Politics, International Trade, Automotive and other. Each resource listed is accompanied by a short description.
Tags: oil; energy; resources; biodiesel; ethanol; gas prices
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Investigating Business: From profit to non-profit
This tipsheet is a good guide to backgrounding businesses. The authors list local sources, government sources, data sources, online sources, regulators and trade groups that will be helpful for any business reporter. Each source has a short explanation of why it is helpful.
Tags: business; backgrounding; SEC; Wall Street; bankruptcy; Secretary of State; Pacer
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Dissecting Profits and Non-Profits
This tipsheet offers sources to use when investigating both publicly traded companies and non-profits. Most of the sources are online, and include the Security and Exchange Commission, Dun and Bradstreet credit reports and Guidestar.