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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Some key aviation databases
The author discusses some sources that will be helpful for reporters covering aviation and airports. The resources he suggests include airline on-time performance data, which his on-time arrival and departure data for nonostop domestic flights. He also suggests using Form 41 data, which airlines are required to submit to the DOT with information about every route flown nationwide. Banstetter also recommends using the origin and destination survey. For every resource, Banstetter explains where to find the data and what sorts of stories are hidden in it.
Tags: transportation; airplanes; consumer stories; online resources; Department of Transportation; FAA
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Obtaining Canadian aviation and other transportation data
The author discusses how to access Canadian transportation data online. He focuses on CADORS, a database of aviation incidents, as well as the Transportation Safety Board. The author also notes that information on flights to and from the U.S. can be obtained through the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
Tags: transportation; Canada; airplane; aviation; air travel; airlines; incident data
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Investigating airline safety
Alexander's tipsheet highlights a handful of useful databases available online, from the National Transportation Safety Board's aviation accident database to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics' TranStats database.
Tags: airline safety; transportation; FAA; airplanes; database; CAR; computer-assisted reporting
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Airline Maintenance and Safety
This tipsheet is basically a list of databases and information available to anyone looking in to the subject of airline maintenance. Mellnik gives sources of information he used in his own exhaustive series on the topic.
Tags: None
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Polk Seminar on Public Safety
This 11-point tip sheet offers helpful advice on how and when to use data in the event of an airline crash, how to prepare the newsroom, which agencies are helpful sources of information.
Tags: NTSB; DOT; aviation; crash; transportation; airplane; CAR
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Tracking nuclear shipments in your region; Resources for investigations on the transportation beat
This tipsheet is a list of mainly Internet sources of information on tracking nuclear shipments by private companies or the government. There is also a list of Internet sources for investigating local transit services, air safety and airline service ratings.
Tags: Nuclear Energy; Nuclear Weapons
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Navigating business information; Using aviation safety documents
This tipsheet has three sections. Section 1 gives general advice on being an excellent reporter and writer. Section 2 is gives detailed tips on how to cover both public and private companies. Section 3 describes how to use aviation safety documents to cover an airline crash.
Tags: Aviation
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Plane facts: Responsible aviation reporting
Morris' tipsheet provides advice and information on covering airline crashes responsibly and intelligently.
Tags: CAR
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How to Cover a Crash
This tipsheet gives advice about how to be prepared to report the crash that hasn't happened yet and how to cover the one that has happened. It also gives bigger-picture advice about how to cover airline aviation in general.
Tags: CAR