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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Learning to Listen
This tipsheet provides tips for interviewing, using confidential sources, writing clearer investigative reports and coaching.
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Saving Your Sources
How to deal with keeping sources confidential and getting past all the obsticles that come along with having sources.
Tags: investigative reporting
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Cyberlaw issues for investigative reporters and editors: Recent developments, including "fair use" under copyright law, open networks and reporter's privilege, republication liability for defamation, and tortious intergerence with a source's confidentiality agreement
This packet includes handouts on the cases of CS First Boston Corporation v. FBC Buster (libel via e-mail), Karaduman v. Newsday (libel action against publishers and investigative reporters as result of republication in book form of allegedly defamatory newspaper articles), Religious Technology Center v. Netcom On-Line Communication Services (intellectual properties on the Internet), and citations involving fraud and computers and wire communication and harassment. Audio tape available through the IRE Resource Center at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ ire.org. Ask for tape #IRE96-10.
Tags: Legislation; Internet
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High School Confidential
Reisner discusses Making Our Schools Work, a 10-day series on school quality in Northern New Jersey. A main source was the New Jersey School Book. Reisner details how they used this document and collected data for their analysis. Audio tape is available for purchase from the IRE Resource Center. Contact us at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org
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Confidentiality of Sources
Tip sheets on: source credibility (how can you tell whether your source is telling the truth?); care and feeding of sources; confidentiality of sources; and how to find, cultivate and keep them.
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