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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Investigating Racial Disparities
LaFleur and Poston recap their racial disparity stories with great tips and hints while Sommers highlights some of his finding in his book, "Studying Racial Disparity in a 'Post-Racial' Society"
Tags: racial gap; mapping; statistics
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(More than 5) Databases for criminal justice reporting
Roberts discusses the "data-rich" nature of the criminal justice beat, identifying several key databases for reporters. Examples include 911 response data, jail bookings, jury selection transcripts, National Corrections Reporting program and many more
Tags: crime; arrest; jail; courts; police; criminal justice; violent offenders; sexual offenders; prison; inmates; judicial reporting; NACJD; NCRP; jury; juries; court docket
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CAR in the Classroom
Close discusses the challenges he has faced in both learning and teaching CAR techniques. He also includes books and Web sites he has found helpful.
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Data for Criminal Justice Stories
Roberts discusses where to find data for every stage of the criminal justice system. She begins with sources for incident-level and arrest data, such as jail bookings and blood-alcohol test results. Roberts then discusses where to find data about courts and sentencing; she includes sources like PACER, state criminal justice statistics centers and the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data. The tipsheet ends with sources for data about imprisonment and probation, such as the National Corrections Reporting Program.
Tags: state government; court data; justice statistics; online research; state and national statistics; crime; criminals
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Private Eyes Share their Tips
Dawson's tipsheet lists helpful sources as identified by a private investigator. The first pages is a list of books. The remainder of the tipsheet details how journalists and PIs alike have lost access to information, and other threats to the future of the public's right to know.
Tags: PI; private investigator; FOI; public records; book; investigation; web search; backgrounding
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How to turn an investigation into a book
Tips on how to turn your investigation into a book.
Tags: books; publishing; literary agency
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Spanish Translation of "Is There a Book in Your Investigation?"
This is the Spanish translation of tipsheet #2694. David Cay Johnston da consejos a reporteros que estan considerando convertir una investigacion (o investigaciones) en un libro.
Tags: libro; investigacion; proyecto; escribir; espanol; 2694;
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Tracking Public Companies
David Heath provides a list of books and Web sites that can help reporters who are trying to uncover corporate deception and gives a brief description of each.
Tags: investigating companies; fraud; corruption; tracking businesses
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Basics of Business Investigations: From Backgrounding to Ideas
Crowe gives four tips for journalists to keep in mind when tracking and backgrounding public companies. She also provides helpful Web sites and books for reporters who are covering businesses. En espanol: #2874
Tags: investigating companies
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Crafting the Investigative Narrative
James Neff provides some helpful rules, tips and suggestions for writing an investigative serial narrative. He lists possible story forms, writing techniques, books on the subject, and much more to help reporters who are writing an investigative story.
Tags: investigations; writing techniques