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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Ready when the story breaks
This tipsheet offers ways to include data in a breaking news story or when you're on a tight deadline. The author offers a database of websites to keep on hand, as well as tips on analyzing data "using your own software."
Tags: databases; raw data; analyze; plane crash; car accident; OSHA; NOAA; NICAR; CAR
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Broadcast and CAR: Quick Hits and Visuals
Thompson lists databases to use when breaking news happens. She includes sources for data about airplane crashes, hazardous materials, boating accidents, bridges and campus crime.
Tags: NICAR; databases; breaking news
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Websites and Search Techniques for Reporters
This tipsheet proposes a hypothetical situation and then walks the reporter how to use CAR while covering the breaking news. In the hypothetical situation, a plane crashes. The tipsheet suggests resources and databases that would be helpful in covering the accident.
Tags: practice exercise; searching; search engine; internet; accident coverage; breaking news
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"Crash Course" and "On the Wings of Controversy"
Crash Course-This tipsheet deals with traffic reports. It explains how to obtain this type of data and analyze it. The tipsheet explains how the reporters broke down the database to come up with specific findings. On the Wings of Controversy-The tipsheet deals with airplane flight information. It talks about how the reporters obtained flight manifests and put it into a computer spreadsheet from paper records. It talks about how passenger, flight departure, and arrival information was analyzed to determine if a university airplane was being used for personal matters.
Tags: Interstate interchange; hazardous interchange; accident rate; crash database; injuries; fatal crashes; traffic engineers; transportation planners; traffic counts; AAA; UT Center for Transportation Research; Metropolitan Planning Commission; Department of Transportation; University of Tennessee; airplane; flight manifests
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Using state highway crash databases
It’s probably not worth trying to cover every injury crash as spot news. Even if your coverage area includes just 300,000 people, that would mean writing about more than 500 injured people each week! But it suggests that you might want to try to do more enterprise. One resource is your state’s crash database. Overberg gives some suggestions on how to do some enterprise work using crash data.
Tags: None
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Plane Crash Databases
This handout contains a list of databases useful for journalists covering plane crashes. This tipsheet also lists several queries to make and the different forms that are available.
Tags: plane crash databases; aviation investigations; databases; disasters
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Crashes, Explosions and Spills Chemicals/Medical/Science on Deadline
This tipsheet contains a list of sources to have on-hand, a list of contacts and questions to ask when reporting on environmental issues.
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Colliding Databases: Covering disasters and accidents; How I Investigated the Story: ValuJet and the FAA; Aviation Sites Online; Crash Course: Databases of Transportation Accidents
This handout includes tips for aviation reporting and information on databases of transportation accidents and transportation Web sites.
Tags: aviation; databases; transportation; accidents; Web sites
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Tipsheet No: 677
This handout provides a detailed list of information that every reporter covering transportation safety should have. Included are a list of databases and websites available as well as stories from The Seattle Times and Newsday. Audio tape is available for purchase from the IRE Resource Center. Contact us at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org.
Tags: 20 pgs.