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 "bulletproof story" ...
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The data-driven story part 3: bulletproofing and presentation
Learn how to "bulletproof" your data by doing integrity checks and learn tips to go beyond basic data checking.
Tags: Databases; sourcing; story visualization
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Bulletproofing the Big Story
The tipsheet goes over the best ways organize your story, budget your time and know your sources.
Tags: bulletproof; fact check
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Michael Beren's Powerpoint for: The game plan: Deciding when to do what during an investigation
This is the Powerpoint presentation from Michael Berens on how he navigated and managed his award winning story, Methadone and the Politics of Pain.
Tags: blueprint; strategies; bulletproofing
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Bulletproofing in the heat of deadline
Thompson provides 10 tips to bulletproof a story in the heat of the deadline. From thinking like a lawyer to working directly with the copy editor.
Tags: bulletproofing; deadlines; libel
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Managers: Bulletproofing the Story
Get step by step instructions on managing your newsroom from Ciotta. From the beginning of your project (what's the premise) to bringing the project home.
Tags: bulletproof story; editing; managers
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Bulletproofing the Story
Beelman's tipsheet helps editors in bulletproofing investigative stories. She starts at the beginning with tips on organization. She talks about other key components of the report-editor relationship that aid in directing and focusing the project, and providing the requisite support and insights.
Tags: project planning; data; records; interviewing; crowd-sourcing;
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Bulletproofing a Watchdog Story
The author discusses several tips for being organized while working on an investigation. He also shares advice for how to be as thorough as possible, in order to eliminate any accidental error or oversight.
Tags: editing; newsroom management; organization
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Bulletproofing Your Investigation
Investigative reporting is only as powerful as the truth it tells. Even the smallest error in a media investigation can be used by critics to devalue the entire project. Hall offers advice about how to make sure your investigation is error-free. The tips include "Ask tipsters why they want you to do the story" and "Keep going back to your main sources, quizzing them again and again on points to make sure their stories stay the same." All together Hall offers 17 pointers.
Tags: sources; anonymous sources; informants; watchdog; editing
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Bulletproofing the watchdog story
Papajohn and McIntosh offer a list of tips for putting together unassailable investigations. The tipsheet contains advice for both the reporting and editing processes and pertains to every phase of each. Papajohn and McIntosh are managing editors of their newspapers.
Tags: writing; editing; investigative reporting
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Bulletproofing your data-based stories
This tipsheet is a good guide to doing solid data analysis and avoiding common errors. The authors discuss data integrity checks to make sure that the data is clean and there are no structural problems in the database. The authors go on to discuss analyzing polls and surveys and using the right methodology. Finally, they offer tips from other seasoned CAR reporters.
Tags: data analysis; Microsoft Access; Microsoft Excel; data cleaning; statistics; technology