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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Backgrounding People
This tipsheet provides a list of resources to use when backgrounding individuals. Lyle's is careful to denote which resources are free vs. for a fee. Her list is broken down to include national resources (for the U.S.) and regional resources specific to New York state. She also gives phone service information for several international countries.
Tags: background; phone records; public records; business records; property records; New York; professional licenses; aviation administration; medical license; biographies; WhoIs; social networking; international phone records
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20 Business Records Every Business Journalist Can Use
"20 Business Records Every Business Journalist Can Use" is in the form of a business story written by Evans about the failures of a company; running in the large margins of the story are citations to documents used by the author to make certain points within the story; useful to show not only what documents are available but how they can be used.
Tags: proxy statements; stock price charts; 8-K; SEC; telephone directory; 10-Q; 10-K; Litigation; lawsuits; Chief Executive Officer; Employment Contracts; Patents; Jackets; U.S. Patent Office; Executives' Official Biographies; Company Brocure