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 "daily stories" ...
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Waste investigations for any community
Get tips on how to investigate government in terms of who gets audited, what data sets are available and see how that information can lead to local news stories.
Tags: Government; government agencies; fraud; investigation;
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Multi-tasking
This tip sheet teaches you how to multi-task in a daily story.
Tags: multi-tasking; day turn; daily; developing story
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TIME IS MONEY – AND I’M OUT OF IT!!!
Use this tipsheet for some strategies for daily, “down and dirty” digging when you need to do a quick-turn investigation.
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Digging Deep with Data Journalism
Get prepared to dig deeper into stories using data journalism.
Tags: Data Journalism
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Close to Home: Great stories begin with local reporting
Gabrielson shows how to elevate local reporting from the \"numbing procession of planning and zoning meetings, \'not in my backyard\' protests and feel good articles about people.\" He suggests focusing on reporting that isn\'t linked to a daily deadline and investigating the data available from different entities within the city. He includes four examples of great local reporting.
Tags: data; local government; city government; local reporting; city hall;
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Writing the Investigative Story
Frank gives tips on staying focused on telling the investigative story. She outlines a plan to stay on task with a long-form investigation, especially when you're working on this while meeting daily deadlines.
Tags: investigative reporting; writing; organization;
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Skytales: Military Dispatches
This very extensive tipsheet goes into great detail about covering the military. Fabey discusses how to approach military investigations, how to work around common Defense Department excuses, how to find military records and how to build your own database of military intelligence. The tipsheet also includes many examples of Fabey's own military reporting.
Tags: military; defense; FOIA; federal government; army; data negotiation; story ideas; beat reporting
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Skytales: Military Dispatches
Tips on reporting on military and including sources of stories and dodges to be aware of.
Tags: military; contracts; defense deparment; intelligence; research
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Managing and Juggling: How to Cover Your Beat and Still Produce Investigative Stories
Hunt offers eight tips about how to dig up investigative stories on a beat. Her tips include information about how to stay organized (make lists, keep files) and how to go about transforming a daily story into an investigative report (ask for documents, keep the big picture in mind).
Tags: beat reporting; sources; investigative reporting; open records requests
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The latest in social network analysis
Dowdell and Kessler explain what social network analysis is, what it can be used for, and also provide a number of examples of stories that used social network analysis. They also give reporters information about where to find more information on social network analysis and include Web sites that can aid those who are working on such projects.
Tags: social network analysis; data analysis; investigative reporting techniques