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 "developing sources" ...
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The Art of the Interview and Source Development
How to do great interviews, on the fly or going deep.
Tags: Interview; Source Development
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Free software, part deux
Fenton discusses free software available for visualization, Flash development, R for statistics, desktop GIS software, free server software and much more.
Tags: data visualization; server software; GIS; web development; open source; newsapps
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Investigating Hospital Safety
Marshall gives insights into covering hospital safety - from developing sources; paying attention to story tips; covering hospital regulation;
Tags: hospitals; health care; medical care; physicians; doctors; nurses; insurance; pharmaceuticals; drugs; licensing
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Accountability Reporting in Higher Education
Lombardi's tipsheet addresses covering campus crime. She talks about finding sources, a difficult process through the student judicial process. She suggests sources for campus crime data; public records laws by state; and points to a toolkit developed by the Center for Public Integrity for covering campus crime
Tags: higher education; campus security; rape; Victim Rights Law Center; victim advocates; Clery Act; Department of Education; assault
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Investigative Breaking News
This tipsheet helps ready a reporter for breaking news stories. It beings with having the right training and tools at hand, and includes ideas for collaboration and engaging the team when the story breaks. Borowski also touches on what to consider when the dust settles - is there a bigger story here; something to develop down the road?
Tags: breaking news; databases; social media; reporting; management; sources
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Managing and juggling your time to do watchdog stories
Fran Gilpin of the Fayetteville Observer offers her tips on how to make time to be a watchdog.
Tags: investigative reporting; story ideas; source development; time management
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Covering Invisible Populations
Teichroeb outlines lessons she's learned while covering marginalized people and populations - such female prisoners and abused students. Much of her tipsheet touches on issues of developing the trust of your sources. Teichroeb includes links to a handful of stories she completed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Tags: marginalized populations; trauma; abuse; sources; documents; ethics; conflict of interest; Dart Center on Journalism and Trauma and Dart Society
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The Art of Source Development
Schaefer outlines methods for developing sources for your story. He discusses how you get a new source to trust you, as well as the challenge of building confidence in your source.
Tags: sources; interviews; investigaiton; background
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Source-Building 101: How to find, develop and interview sources for any beat
Hall reviews different types of sources, how to find sources and how to gain their trust. Hall offers multiple suggestions for each of those topics. Finally, the tipsheet ends with four steps to a successful interview.
Tags: interviewing; sources; sourcing
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Looking at health care from a refreshed perspective
"Critics/watchdogs/gathers of fact, contrary opinion & gossip are great sources of story ideas, and for developing critical thinking about the drug industry."
Tags: health care; pharmacy; investigation; resources; Internet; blog