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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New Data and New Uses for Data from the Census
This tipsheet is a good resource for reporters feeling overwhelmed by Census data. The author discusses sources for the most recent Census information, as well as good uses for 2000 Census data. Finally, the tipsheet ends with lots of story ideas that can be done with this data.
Tags: population; demographic; statistics; computer-assisted reporting; Census; data analysis; federal government; state government
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Following the Money after a Disaster
Buettner walks us through how story about the federal money given to New York after 9/11. He discusses the agencies he investigated and the sorts of data he analyzed to find out where the money was going. The data he discusses includes contract data, grant data, SBA Disaster Loans, and FEMA grants. Buettner discusses how he found and used each type of data. At the end of the tipsheet, he shares the results of his investigation.
Tags: September 11; federal government; state government; relief efforts; emergency services; public health; public safety; housing and urban development; HUD
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Drilling for Oil with CAR
This tipsheet is a good guide to integrating more CAR into the newsroom. Cohen talks about how to plan projects that use CAR, how to use CAR in the context of daily reporting and how to use CAR for very in-depth, long-term investigations.
Tags: computer-assisted reporting; databases; records analysis; records request; daily stories; editors
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Using CAR for Quick Investigations
This tipsheet lists a lot of websites and databases that can be helpful for reporters trying to incorporate more CAR into breaking news and daily stories. The tipsheet includes brief descriptions of what information is available from each source.
Tags: CAR; data; analysis; websites; breaking news
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How to blend CAR into your everyday reporting
This tipsheet offers a lot of advice for reporters who are relatively new to CAR and want to integrate it into their daily reporting. The tips range from working numbers into the stories to becoming familiar with databases. Sylwester includes a list of databases that are often helpful when turning daily stories.
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Managing and Juggling: How to do investigative reporting on the beat
There never seems to be enough time to incorporate investigative into beat reporting. Lanosga provides some very practical and specific ideas for adding an investigative spin to daily stories. The author also offers tips for convincing editors to give reporters time and resources for investigative projects. This tipsheet also includes a list of Web sites useful for backgrounding individuals.
Tags: beat reporting; investigative reporting; time management; story ideas; backgrounding; Internet; Web sites; daily stories; public documents; government contracts; computer-assisted reporting
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Building the investigative brand on a daily basis
Parsons gives a number of tips on how to bring investigative journalism into everyday routines and daily stories. Suggestions include helping other reporters to add investigative elements to their stories, pursuing investigative follow-ups to daily stories, and looking for answers to questions left unasked by other media. He also lists more than a dozen Web sites he culls for investigative reporting ideas.
Tags: investigative reporting; planning
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Investigating the Ivory Tower
Pitting the coverage of higher education as 'the best of all reporting worlds', this tipsheet goes on to detail information sources that can provide crucial clues. Also included are examples of various investigative stories in the higher education beat.
Tags: chancellor; 990's; college; university
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Pollution Data You Can Use Everyday
This tipsheet provides a list of cues as to possible story ideas that might emerge from daily pollution data. Apart from giving links to some of EPA’s websites Ken Ward Jr. also specifies the exact form of pollution that can be researched for stories.
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Tips for Covering the Police Beat
This tipsheet offers ideas for reporters new to the police beat. Included are ideas and suggestions for working on larger stories while keeping up with the daily beat.
Tags: police; crime; story ideas; sources