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 "danger" ...
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Finding danger in data, Powerpoint
Purcell's Powerpoint presentation offers insight on how he and his team used data to uncover the dangers within the Philadelphia school system.
Tags: data; Assault on Learning; school violence; crime
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Finding danger in data
Use Purcell's notes in conjunction with his Powerpoint presentation (titled the same plus Powerpoint) to get step by step tips and instruction on how to find dangers to your community using data.
Tags: data; community dangers; editorial dangers
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Covering Drug Trafficking and Designer Drugs
Learn about the drug trade beyond pills and pot and into the "new designer drugs, created by savvy, backroom chemists that often circumvent local and federal drug laws to provide a dangerous, but legal high."
Tags: drugs; incense; bath salts; plant food; not for human consumption
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Reporting on Guns as a Consumer Product
This IRE award winning report uncovers the dangerous truth behind one of the world's largest gun manufacturer. Learn how to cover gun stories without looking like the bad guy.
Tags: Gun safety; consumer safety; Remington; gun laws; gun regulations
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Exposing Dangerous Caregivers
Kauffman's tipsheet decribes how to use unemployment-benefit claims to track caregiver misconduct; using federal labor records to track caregivers also acting as employers; and quick hit stories that can be done with this information.
Tags: misconduct; medical professionals; unlicensed doctors; physicians; hospitals; licensing boards; HIPPA
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Access Q&A: Dangerous Dams
This tipsheet is an exercise in Microsoft Access analysis, using a database of dam inspections as an example. Even if you don\'t have the dam database at your fingertips to practice, the second portion of this tipsheet may still be useful. LaFleur shares the answers to the exercise questions, illustrated by many screen shots and lots of query language.
Tags: Microsoft Access; database analysis; practice exercise; dam inventory; SQL
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Threats in provinces: covering the armed conflict
Manrique explains the threats she received afer reporting on the activities of paramilitary groups in Colombia. The author gives advice on how to report and do investitative journalism in provinces and smaller towns. Spanish version available (2941)
Tags: international reporting; colombia; threats; danger; dangerous assignments; violence; Latin America; latinoamerica; Spanish; espanol; paramilitary groups; 2941
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Tips for Investigating Dangerous Caregivers
Teichroeb gives tips to reporters who are covering mistreatment of patients by their hired caregivers. Teichroeb's advice stems from a story she wrote about a state-funded residential program for developmentally disabled adults, in which she found rampant abuse and neglect by the caregivers to the clients, who were unable to appeal their placement in the program because they had gotten into trouble with the law. She explains how to get started on such projects, how to search for documents, interviewing techniques and more.
Tags: elderly; caregivers; nursing homes; abuse; neglect; mistreatment
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Investigating Political Corruption at the Highest Levels in Latin America
Disponible en Espanol: 2889. Santoro explains the threats he received and the invasions of privacy he endured after communicating with a judge about the investigation of Serbian drug-trafficking in Argentina. For Santoro, these threats were neither the first not the last, but he says they are mild when compared to the situations of journalists in Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela. He explains the dangers these journalists face and points out that, because of weak institutions, this is a problem that is not likely to end anytime soon.
Tags: Latin American journalism; corruption; politics; international journalism; drug-trafficking; investigations