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 "United Nations" ...
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Cold Case Srebrenica
The author explains how he investigated the 1995 Serbian attack on Srebrenica, a U.N. protected "safe-area." He describes, "How we travelled to several European countries meeting former officials and looking for documents. How we had confrontations with researchers of the official inquiries. And how we researched diametrically opposing official conclusions."
Tags: shoe leather journalism; European politics; war; United Nations; Serbia; Bosnia
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Investigating Agriculture: Down on the Farm
Stapleton provides ways to identify federal agencies that oversee farming. She has tips on understanding the regulations and regulators. The tipsheet tells where data can be obtained regarding violations, fines, penalties and suspensions. Stapleton provides agricultural information on pesticides, comparative analysis, politics, and labor. The tipsheet has links to websites that have important agricultural data. Additionally, the tipsheet has a printout from the U.S. Department of Labor which tells what information this agency collects.
Tags: agriculture; farmer; pesticide inspector; U.S. Department of Labor; wage and labor disputes; Migrant and Seasonal Workers Protection Act; Farm labor; contracting; transportation; housing regulations; politics; Social Security Administration; Labor; disability; pesticides; EPA's Worker's Protection Standards; United Farm Workers; National Agriculture Workers Survey; Wage and Labor violation data; Census of Agriculture
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Sources and tips on nuclear, biological and chemical weapons threats
Threats from weapons of mass destruction are more pronounced than ever. Eisler describes some of the threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. He also includes a hefty list of government, NGO, and academia sources on the subjects.
Tags: nuclear weapons; dirty bombs; radiological weapons; nuclear regulatory commission; Department of Energy; National Nuclear Security Administration; department of defense; Defense threat reduction information analysis center; nonproliferation; disarmament; IAEA; United Nations; nuclear energy institute; Russia; germs; anthrax; smallpox; nerve agents; sarin; VX; mustard gas; Chemical Weapons Convention; CDC; infectious diseases; global green
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Investigating UN
This tipsheet contains some tips for investigating the United Nations from Wall Street Journal Senior Special Writer Steve Stecklow.
Tags: UN; United Nations; international reporting; scandal; employees; UNICEF