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 "attacks" ...
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Finding the Story
Berens gives great tips on how to break a big enterprise story. "The key is to not only follow your gut but to employ specific strategies that allow you to attack story ideas from new directions." This extensive tipsheet has all you need for a brilliant story.
Tags: enterprise story; research; story ideas
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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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Authenticity: When things go wrong -- Lessons learned from the journalistic disasters
This tipsheet is broken down into two parts: "7 Things to Remember When Chasing a Live One" is about steps to take while reporting, to make sure your story is accurate; "7 Things to Do When Your Reporting is Under Fire" is a list of ways to deal with an attack on your story.
Tags: journalistic ethics; authenticity; sourcing; fact-checking; accuracy
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Attacks on the Freedom of Information and How to Fight Back
This is an extensive list of websites that can be used to learn about the access to government information.
Tags: FOIA; freedom of information act; government information; making FOIA requests
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Attacks on Freedom of Information and How to Fight Back
This is a list of helpful resources for learning about access to government information, and how to make requests under the federal Freedom of Information Act and comparable laws in the states.
Tags: FOIA; Freedom of Information Act; FOI; ACLU; Privacy Act; FOI Center; Brechner Center for Freedom of Information; Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; Government Secrecy.
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After the death of a journalist: the stories to do; the work to finish
This is a transcript of the keynote speech by Fernando Rodrigues at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference. According to the speaker, the speech is about "the attacks against journalists and deaths of journalists on duty around the world." The speech includes facts and figures about journalists who have been killed, arrested, etc.
Tags: Fernando Rodrigues; Global Investigative Journalism Conference; attacks on journalists; journalists; journalists killed on duty; attacks; journalists in danger
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The Agency formerly known as the INS and the student visa program
When the first World Trade Center attacks happened, a major overhaul commenced for Immigration and Naturalization Services. This overhaul was ready to take affect nearly a decade later when the INS was split in two by the new Homeland Security Department. Cohen discusses some key differences in the agency before and after the split. She also includes a detailed explanation of what the new system looks like and how it works. Another useful portion of the tipsheet has charts that describe different places to get immigration data, what the data includes, and any problems inherent in the data.
Tags: immigration; INS; homeland security; education; visas; SEVIS; data; story ideas; databases; foi; census
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The Statehouse Circus
Tips on what to search for when following campaigns and state budget investigations. Also available are four stories: State Tops With Bond Agencies/Vetoes Don't Affect Credit Rating by David Hanners, Pioneer Press; Attack or Retreat?// Economists Will Probably Ponder For Years Whether Minnesota's Current Budget Crisis Was the Direct Result of Terrorists Acts of a Predictable Downturn Blown Out of Proportion on September 11 by Jim Ragsdale, Pioneer Press; Late checks help Gilmore make stronger case for car-tax cuts by Holly A. Heyser, The Virginian-Pilot; Hager Backers Reluctant to Donate to Earley by Holly A. Heyser, The Virginian-Pilot; On The Lege: How Virginia legislators spend the donations they get, produced by Virginia Commonwealth University's Legislative Reporting students. These pages contain the headline and the lead paragraphs of the stories produced by these students. The stories are available at http://www.people.vcu.edu/~jcsouth/on-the-lege/
Tags: politicians; budget; money; campaign finance
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Press Needs to Challenge New Concentration of Power
Jennifer LaFleur of the St. Louis-Post Dispatch provides a copy of a powerful column (by Charles Davis of the University of Missouri) published in the January/February 2002 issue of the IRE Journal, which challenges journalists to question the limits placed on the public's access to information in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Tags: FOIA
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Public Information
David Smallman of Steinhart & Falconer LLP provides a number of articles and documents concerning hot-topic legal issues, such as Web access and limiting public information in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Tags: public information; law