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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Close to Home: Great stories begin with local reporting
Gabrielson shows how to elevate local reporting from the \"numbing procession of planning and zoning meetings, \'not in my backyard\' protests and feel good articles about people.\" He suggests focusing on reporting that isn\'t linked to a daily deadline and investigating the data available from different entities within the city. He includes four examples of great local reporting.
Tags: data; local government; city government; local reporting; city hall;
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Backgrounding People and Businesses on the Web
Dowdell provides a helpful framework for all your backgrounding needs. Starting with a strategy and some basic questions, she provides suggested helpful links for finding information on people and businesses on the web.
Tags: backgrounding; background check; business; property records; court records; public records; criminal background check; campaign contributions; politicians; articles of incorporation; business license; professional license
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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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Ways to Trace Every Business
Campbell details how to background businesses by following the paper trail they create - from business licenses to potential litigation involvement.
Tags: business; business backgrounding; articles of incorporation; Uniform Commercial Code filings; UCC; Internal Revenue Service; IRS; planing and zoning
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Belief is in the document: Tips on investigating religion
Gorski discusses various aspects of covering religion. The tipsheet includes advice about where to find church records such as 990s, applications for property tax exemptions, and articles of incorporation. The tipsheet also explains what each type of record could reveal about the church.
Tags: religion; beat reporting; churches; nonprofits
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Tracking that Political Money: Putting the Data Train Together
Four main lessons that Contra Costa Times learned while writing, "Pombo Aide under fire for finances." Includes articles.
Tags: California; politics; money; data; database; web sites; documents
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Drug trafficking, smuggling and money laundering; covering crime and corruption
La Nacion has been doing a series of articles exposing the crime and corruption in Costa Rican government. "The following are the 20 different steps, not necessarily sequential, and the internal rules that were applied by the three reporters of La Nacion Investigative Unit to expose these corrruption cases."
Tags: crime; corruption; government; scandal; interviews; beat reporting; boarder track; corporations; politics
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Investigating War Crimes
Several documents as well as the resulting article which are an example of how to investigate war crimes.
Tags: vietnam; war; war crimes; military; soldiers;
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Tips For Getting Your Student Investigations Published
Tips for educators in getting their students' articles published.
Tags: education; students; articles; investigation
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Writing and Presenting the Investigative Story
17 do's for investigative reporters as they write their story.
Tags: reporters; presentation; structure; article; broadcast; broadcast track