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 "credibility" ...
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Reporting global pandemics: How to keep focussed on asking the right questions and getting the right answers
Abraham prepares journalists to cover dangerous pandemics, like the SARS crisis in 2003. Drawing from the experiences of journalists who covered SARS in Hong Kong, Abraham discusses how it will be difficult for journalists to find credible experts. He suggests journalists focus on finding answers to a few questions that will be the most important to readers and audiences.
Tags: scientists; disease; SARS; epidemic; health crisis; medical journalism; doctors; health scare
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Cultivating Sources and Using Documents
Mike McGraw lists different tips on how to look for the best sources of information in almost any beat. The tipsheet also lists a number of different types of documents, including government documents and official reports, that may help bringing credibility to any story.
Tags: government; financial reports; federal tax liens; FOIA; public records
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Evaluation criteria for a web site
Easy access to the information on the Internet makes it easy to forget that the information itself may not be credible. There is no quality control for the World Wide Web. Anyone can put up a web site claiming all sorts of things. Anne Mintz offers this evaluation criteria for reporters to discern more easily whether a web site is reputable or not.
Tags: web site; internet; credible information on the Internet; web standards; accuracy; facts
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Evaluating Net Information
This tipsheet is a chapter from the Third Edition of The Online Journalist; Using the Internet and Other Electronic Resources. In particular, it discusses the MIDIS system to weigh the integrity of data found on the Internet.
Tags: production; site ownership; spelling errors; domain name; WHOIS database; trust meter; credibility; protocols: WAIS; Telnet; Gopher; FTP servers
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Crisis Management in the Newsroom
The purpose of crisis management is to effectively manage communications and to emerge from a crisis with one's reputation, credibility and business intact. This tipsheet provides some management do's and don'ts when facing a crisis.
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M.I.D.I.S.: Miller Internet Data Integrity Scale
This tipsheet talks about how to think about information available on the Internet. It discusses six groups of sites; Government Data, State, Federal, University Studies, Special Interest Groups and Other. Each has a different level of credibility and different types of uses.
Tags: CAR
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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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