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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Covering Casinos: the local beat
This detailed tipsheet gives advice for local reporters covering the casino business. Aside from general hints, it also contains a casino flow chart and lists of gambling industry analysts, regulators, academics and associations. Several anti-gambling groups, who Fusco says can be very helpful, are also listed.
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Uncovering crimes with Campaign Data
This package includes a handout of sources for Federal Election Commission data on campaign contributions, tips for uncovering "bundled" contributions and an investigation into campaign financing by the Kansas City Star. Audio tape is available for purchase from the IRE Resource Center. Contact us at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org. --ask for tape #12.
Tags: Politics and CAR (it's not just the election) FEC 24 pgs.
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Gambling Source List
An extremely extensive source list for stories dealing with gambling; categories (with several sources in each) are books, recent studies, government sources, industry publications, gaming research centers, gaming agencies and commissions, crime commissions, paper trails to follow, gambling experts and professors, compulsive gambling groups and anti-gambling groups and contacts.
Tags: casino; organized crime; Indian Gaming Regulatory Act; Atlantic City; Riverboat Gambling