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 "chronology" ...
-
Making timelines
Displaying a series of events can be as simple as drawing a straight line. But if you want to get fancier, there are a bunch of other options to display chronologies and storylines. In this talk, we'll take a tour of current timelines in the wild and walk you through three open-source tools to help you make your own: ProPublica's TimelineSetter, Zach Wise's TimelineJS, and WNYC's Vertical Timeline. http://lenagroeger.s3.amazonaws.com/timelines/timelines.html
Tags: data
-
Organizing chronologies with timeline tools
Follow the link to TimelineSetter ('creates beautiful timelines') where it explains everything you need to know on how to use it: http://propublica.github.com/timeline-setter/
Tags: timelines; chronologies
-
TimeFlow: An Analytical timeline for reporters
TimeFlow is "a tool created by reporters....that manages chronologies and timelines." It's intended to help keep notes on long-running stories; compiling materials for disparate projects in a way that allows one to see patterns; organize/reconstruct events. This tipsheet walks one through using the program.
Tags: TimeFlow; timelines; data; organization; visualization; calendar;
-
Managing the Investigation
Beelman offers tips for editors who oversee investigative projects. Her tips include making sure the project has structure, meeting with reporters regularly, and building timelines and chronologies.
Tags: editing; management; reporting; writing
-
The editing process: teamwork matters
Flores, Phillips and Young explain how to optimize cooperation between editors and reporters working on investigative projects. Their tips pertain to every step of the investigative and writing process; it is organized chronologically.
Tags: editing; reporting; teamwork; fact-checking
-
Some Thoughts About Making Stories Airtight From the Beginning
This tipsheet is chock-full of good advice for editors working with investigative reporters. Some of the tips include having the reporters file a reporting plan at the beginning of the project, transcribing interviews and using chronologies. For each broad tip, Rochester offers several specific pieces of advice.
Tags: editing; writing; interviews; sources; accuracy; fact-checking; newsroom
-
The Simple Business Investigation
This tipsheet covers keys aspects of a business investigation. It includes information on constructing a chronology, organizing data and tackling more complicated stories. It includes two pages of a spreadsheet full of information to illustrate how electronic data and turn into a chronology.
Tags: business; CAR; database analysis; phone logs
-
Editing CAR stories
This tipsheet gives some ideas for how editors should go about handling an investigative story. The tipsheet is split into chronological steps: before the reporting, during the reporting, as the writing begins, and during the writing/editing process.
Tags: None
-
Reassuring Reluctant Sources
This 15-point listing is the how-to of the interview. If you find that you're meeting some resistance from sources, consider Merina's common sense advice which includes avoiding melodrama and checking in with sources often.
Tags: chronology; protect source; confidentiality; listening
-
Backgrounding in hurry
"Backgrounding in a Hurry" gives sound instruction on getting started, following the paper trail, checking court records, backgrounding business and building a chronology. Also included is Uhrhammer's special report which backgrounded Terry Nichols. Audio tape is available for purchase from the IRE Resource Center. Contact us at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org
Tags: Public records