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 "discrimination" ...
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Investigating Racial Profiling Problems
In this tipsheet, the author discusses her own experience investigating racial profiling in Texas. She discusses specific aspects of her investigation, such as getting the data and taking advantage of local university research, and then offers advice to help other journalists with those same areas of the investigation. The second page of the tipsheet is comprised entirely of helpful websites for journalists tackling this topic. The list includes The Council on Crime and Justice, as well as the League of United Latin American Citizens.
Tags: racism; minorities; traffic tickets; traffic violations; police; discrimination; social injustice; civil rights; ACLU; NAACP
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The Longest Yard: Stories you can (or should) do
This comprehensive tipsheet contains a lot of information about incorporating CAR into sports stories. The tipsheet begins with a list of potential stories such as sports-related injuries, salaries and discrimination. For each of the nine potential stories, the authors write a whole paragraph about what to focus on, what information to use and where to get it. Next, the tipsheet includes a list of web and data resources that are helpful for sports reporters. Finally, the tipsheet lists some recent stories that used CAR and serve as good examples of how CAR was integrated into the sports beat.
Tags: sports. athletics; high school sports; college athletics; Olympics
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Analyzing Speeding Tickets and Racial Profiling Data
This tipsheet offers several suggestions for good stories about speeding tickets, as well as some insight on how a general traffic stop story can turn into a piece about racial profiling. Hacker offers tips for doing the analysis and lists over a dozen of helpful websites like the Justice Research and Statistics Association.
Tags: traffic; speeding; discrimination; tickets; school zones
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Racial Profiling in US Customs Searches
Dale Russell shares the lessons learned from a recent I-team investigation about racial profiling in US Customs searches at airports. The tipsheet includes helpful facts about human sources, getting original source documents, and using IRE as a resource.
Tags: racial profiling; U.S. customs inspectors; airport security
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The majority minority: Black kids in adult prison
It is a well-known fact that African Americans are over represented in the US' prison system. But what is possibly even more amazing is the fact that a large percentage of those African Americans in adult prisons are also 18 or younger, and easily could have been sentenced to time in juvenile detention centers. This tipsheet gives basic steps to take to cover this phenomenon in your state.
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Ten Tips for Reporting on Arab\ Muslim Communities
Covering the Arab and Muslim communities is a difficult job. The religion of Islam is vastly more complex to cover than say Catholicism. Arabs, like most ethnic groups, tend to be difficult to pin down with one description or another. Crumm offers ten useful tips on how to report on these important and interesting peoples.
Tags: Muslim; Islam; Arab; Chaldeans Maronites; Melkites; Coptic; Antiochian; Syrian orthodox; Allah; hijab; Judaism; Christianity; media bias; ethnic discrimination; experts; lobbyists; imam; sheikh; FISA
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Story Ideas
Leamy gives two sets of story ideas regarding consumer issues in this informative tipsheet. The first set deals with story ideas surrounding people or companies breaking laws or regulations. The second set concerns non-regulated areas and the stories you can find there. These story ideas are great for newspapers, magazines, and broadcast stations alike.
Tags: story ideas; consumer issues; regulations; used cars; child exploitation; racial discrimination; home inspections; modeling; credit; pets; pharmacies; ADA; FDA; predatory lenders; FOIA; beauty salons; car repair; cemeteries; solicitation; pyramid schemes; charities; hospitals; headhunters; hazing; pay phones; fire engine chasing; roadside zoos; private schools; spam; lead poisoning; interior design
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Using Census data to go beyond Census stories
You don't have to do Census stories to use Census data. Paul Overberg offers six story ideas that use Census data to answer complex questions but are not strictly Census stories. The tipsheet includes links to the data, examples of other work done in the areas in question, and hints on how to look it at all.
Tags: segregation; diversity; income inequality; income disparity; employment discrimination; health care planning; school districts; data; city-suburb profiles
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Building your own database from start to finish
Meitrodt goes through a case study of the Times Picayune story on riverboat pilots and a smaller summary of racial discrimination in New Orleans. He uses these stories as examples of how building your own database can lead to interesting new angles. Tips and hints on how they did their projects and how they can help you come along in this tipsheet as well.
Tags: database; building your own database; public records; story ideas; beat reporting; racial issues; racial disparity; data entry
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Burrowing into HMDA
A run down on what you need to have to do HMDA data based stories and what pitfalls to watch out for in said data. A list of upcoming changes to the HMDA data is also included.
Tags: HMDA; home mortgage; lending; loans; banks; racial discrimination; access; database; data; mortgage; loans; Home Mortgage Disclosure Act