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 "banks" ...
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My friend FRED: Using Fed data tools to add context to stories
Federal Reserve Economic Data, or FRED, is the signature database at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Learn from Taylor how to find and use the economic database to add context to economic reporting.
Tags: Database; economic database; FRED
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Shadow Banking
If you're new to shadow banking, this tipsheet can help you de-mystify the search. Shadow banking is banking that happens outside traditional deposit-based banking.
Tags: Parallel Banking; Wall Street Banking; Shadow Baking; Market Based Banking;
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Shadow Banking
Fricker provides you with a list of professions whom are considered shadow bankers, the 5 steps of shadow banking, what would be considered shadow lending and much more.
Tags: shadow lending, banking; hedge funds; pension funds; ABS; CDO; ABCP; CDS; Repo; SecLand
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Tracking the stimulus
Cochran points out some of the excellent coverage of the stimulus - such as ProPublica's continuing project that includes data and guides to coverage; the Investigative Reporting Workshop's focus on renewable energy grants; and some local coverage. He points to resources available on the TARP/bank bailout, and government sources such as GAO reports and Recovery.org
Tags: stimulus; TARP; Troubled Asset Relief Program; Recovery.org; Government Accountability Office; GAO reports; bank bailout
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Following the Money
Cochran's powerpoint explores the use of data to cover the financial crisis. He provides an overview of banks, and a link to the BankTracker project, by the Investigative Reporting Workshop, that tracks the quarterly reports each bank submits to the FDIC. He also provides information on how to obtain data from the FDIC, and tips on tracking a bank with some details on the types of data available in this data.
Tags: financial crisis; banking; FDIC; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; assets; loans; securities; real estate; loan losses; interest income; non-interest income
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The Bailout - Tracking the Money
Donald and Dunbar give pointers on tracking the bailout money funds. Included are links to Web sites and datasets to help inform stories on the bailout. Links provided include information on: subprime lenders; bailout cash/TARP funds; banking data; and enforcement actions.
Tags: bailout; economy; subprime lenders; banking; TARP; Troubled Asset Relief Program; housing; Home Mortgage Disclosure Act; HMDA; Federal Reserve;
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Backgrounding People and Companies/International: Mining database and the deep web
Williams has compiled and extensive list of web resources when researching international topics. Additionally, she has included a wealth of material for backgrounding people and companies on the web - a "beyond Google" compendium of online resources
Tags: backgrounding; international data; lobbying; Foreign Agents Registration Act; FARA; Speically Deisgnated Nationals List; SDN; worldwide incidents tracking system; World Bank; European Union;
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What you need to know to cover an economy in crisis
Brooks discusses the important issues of the current economic crisis, and provides links to helpful material to assist in covering the current state of the economy.
Tags: subprime; mortgage; economics; economy; federal reserve; banking; savings and loans; S&L; pension; bankruptcy
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Following the money
The tipsheet outlines ways to use CAR to cover the financial crisis. Included are the steps to tracking a specific bank and getting bank data from federal Web sites.
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Bank, Finance and Lobbying Data
This tipsheet lists resources for covering information related to finance. Included is a brief summation of the information contained on each site. Subjects covered on the tipsheet include: banks, finance, and lobbying; inflation; labor and employment data; consumer data.
Tags: banks; finance; lobbying; consumer data; inflation; labor; employment; hedge funds; short selling; CPI-U; CPI-U-RS; Center for Responsible Lending; National Consumer Law Center; Consumer Federation of America