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:
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Tracking the Economy and Business
Roush provides links to sites useful for tracking business and the economy - from the SEC to WARN Act filings.
Tags: business; economics; economy; OSHA; SEC; trademarks; patents; FDIC; American Hospital Directory; environment; campaign contributions; uniform commercial code filings
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Twitter Tools for Journalists
Lorek provides information on 29 helpful tools for journalists who use Twitter.
Tags: twitter; social media; tweets; twitter directory
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CAR for Business Reporting
Dowdell provides helpful links for journalists covering business. From ready reference to directories and deep web searchs. Dowdell also points to data available on the web. She also gives a brief overview of some advanced search strategies. Included in the tipsheet are story examples and the types of data used.
Tags: business; reference; search strategies; data
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Web sites and search techniques for reporters
Edds lists online search tools that reporters may find helpful. She breaks the list down into sections: Google, telephone directories; newspaper archives; libraries; sites to find sources; public records and tipsheets.
Tags: internet; sources; online resources; web
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Websites for covering Latin America. the border and immigrants
Olsen lists many different websites that will be useful for reporters covering the immigration beat. The list is broken into categories: Latin American directories, Media, Translation tools, Investigative reporting organizations, Mexican websites, Government websites throughout Latin America, US websites for immigration coverage, and US websites with international statistics.
Tags: immigration; web-based research; international relations; internet; Spanish translation
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Fast searching on the Internet
Garcia provides a number of helpful Web sites for reporters to use when doing online research. She gives specialized subject directories, specialty search engines, regular search engines and tells when to use each one. Garcia also gives tips on how to evaluate the information you find from your searches. Version en Espanol(2912)
Tags: Internet; investigative techniques; finding information online; Web tools; Spanish 2912
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Los Angeles Times Editorial Library: Internet Tools for Research
This tipsheet is basically the information guide that the LA Times gives to their reporters to help them with internet research. It is essentially a list of websites that are good resources for different beats. For instance, some of the categories listed are entertainment, health and medicine, and legal and court sources. The guide also includes information on phone directories and search engines.
Tags: research; web; invisible web; resources; websites; reporting; beat reporting
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Internet 202: The Invisible Web -- Beyond Google
The "invisible web" refers to the information on the internet that most search engines cannot find. This tipsheet explains what makes information "invisible" and how to track it down. Guckian offers a few tips for searching the invisible web and also suggests several directories of invisible websites that could be helpful to a journalist.
Tags: search engines; www.completeplanet.com; vertical search groups; meta-search engines
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Mining the Wb for Data, Part II
How to write a Perl program to scrape data from the web. Takes you through writing the program, creating a browser, creating a directory to save your downloaded files, and saving data in a format which can be imported into a database.
Tags: Perl program; creating a browser; downloading data from the web; databases
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Alan & Neil's Most Excellent Top Tips
Provides information on how to use search engines, and tips on how to research subjects. This tipsheet includes new tricks you can use on google, and has a list and summary of search engines and subject directories you should know and might not have heard of before. It also has a list of reference websites and news tools.
Tags: search engines; internet; reference; google; subject directories; utility sites.