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 "data editor" ...
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The one-query story: Quick hits for your newsroom
Amaze your editors and wow your readers with these quick-hit data story ideas. Learn techniques on how to look for the short-form watchdog and how to juggle it all. Afflict the comfortable by fact-checking their statements, find expert sources and use spreadsheets to inform your next project.
Tags: spreadsheets; query; data; car
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The Impact of Poverty, and How to Convince Your Editors its Worth Writing About
This Powerpoint presentation is a great guide to why you should cover poverty. Get your editor and your readers to care with Kelly's pitch ideas and story examples as well as steps to take to get started.
Tags: poverty; data; HMDA; Department of Health; LED
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Bulletproofing the Story
Beelman's tipsheet helps editors in bulletproofing investigative stories. She starts at the beginning with tips on organization. She talks about other key components of the report-editor relationship that aid in directing and focusing the project, and providing the requisite support and insights.
Tags: project planning; data; records; interviewing; crowd-sourcing;
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Managing the CAR Story: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the data
This PowerPoint presentation is full of advice for editors working with CAR reporters. It covers the roll of the editor from beginning to end of the CAR process, and emphasizes steps the editor can take in order to ensure that the end result is accurate, relevant and compelling.
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Managing the CAR Story
Horvit offers advice to editors working with CAR reporters. Among the topics he discusses are the importance of the editor's role in double-checking the results, creating a good graphic presentation of the story and keeping the story relevant to its audience.
Tags: CAR; editors; newsroom organization; story-telling; human sources; data analysis
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Writing, editing and presenting the data-driven story
The authors describe how to edit, write and present CAR stories. They discuss the role of the editor in a CAR story, which includes being critical of the data and outlining the story. This tipsheet also suggests a partnership with designers, in order to best display data in graphics and text boxes.
Tags: editors; newsroom organization; newsroom management; graphics; page design
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Building a Data-Driven Enterprise Machine
The author discusses how to maintain and organize databases in order to incorporate data seamlessly into a variety of beat and enterprise stories. The tipsheet includes suggestions about what databases to acquire, and how to prepare and clean the data so it is ready for immediate use.
Tags: databases; data editor; newsroom organization; beat reporting; enterprise
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Project proposal
Pardue has laid out nine questions for reporters to use to prepare projects to pitch to their editors.
Tags: pitch; project; proposal; focus; summary; data; sources; time and money; budget; impact; victims; winners; readers; editors' track
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What Every Editor Should Know about CAR
Campbell explains things that editors need to know about computer-assisted reporting in order to work well with CAR reporters. He discusses how data can be dirty, incomplete and biased. He explains how it can be easy to make a mistake with CAR, but also how it is very importatn to include CAR in investigative stories.
Tags: computer assisted reporting; data analysis; newsroom management; story editing
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Organizing a Campaign toward Computer-Assisted Reporting Approaches
This tipsheet is comprised of the slides from Schwadron's power point presentation about different ways to incorporate CAR into the newsroom. The author offers many New York Times examples of CAR stories, and explains what sort of data was needed for each one. Finally, the tipsheet ends with advice about changing your own newsroom to allow for more CAR-based stories.
Tags: editors; newsroom management; computer-assisted reporting; story ideas; data analysis