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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Mastering the Web as an Investigative Tool: How to search the web, find news, and search behind a web page or chat. And Much, much more.
The author reviews many very useful online tools for journalists. The list includes different browsers, toolbars, search engines and news alert features. Sher explains how to use each tool, and why it is helpful for journalists.
Tags: Firefox; Real Simple Syndication; RSS; Google; search engines; news alerts; domain codes; chat rooms; backgrounding; invisible web
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JournalismNet: Mastering the Web
This is a collection of four handouts that contain information about how to find who is behind a Web page, how to search by country or domain, and how to set google to send you alert e-mails. It also has a list of "a new generation of search tools."
Tags: google; news alert; search tools
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Railroad data and document sources
A presentation of internet sources to access railroad data, including document sources, business and labor data and advocacy organizations for this domain. A Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Accident/Incident Report Form and Database Data File Structure and Field Input Specifications are included. An example of a story from The Fresno Bee on railroad crossing accidents is bundled with the tipsheet.
Tags: railroad crossing; accident; CAR; highway; transportation; rail
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Violations of Consumer Privacy
Handouts of PPT slides dealing with privacy facts, types of privacy invasion, reporting on privacy and privacy invasion, privacy press, tips and online privacy investigative tools.
Tags: e-mail; privacy; Eudora; web domain
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Job Profiles and Occupational Health Reporting
Web addresses of federal, NGO and academic organisations involved in occupational safety and health related domains, agreements and resources towards worker's compensation and a guide on how to report on OSHA activity.
Tags: OSHA; NICAR; Job; compensation; union; NIOSH; labour; immigrants
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Introduction to Search Engines, Boolean Search Logic and Finding Information Online
Do you know when to use Google or Altavista? Sullivan asserts that there is no science to successful Internet searches; it's more of an art. This tipsheet includes ways of finding information online, knowing or guessing where the information is, using catalog search engines, selecting the right key word(s) and using specialty search engines.
Tags: Boolean; search engines; links; CAR; image tags; anchors; URLs; domain; host; HTML tags
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Evaluating Net Information
This tipsheet is a chapter from the Third Edition of The Online Journalist; Using the Internet and Other Electronic Resources. In particular, it discusses the MIDIS system to weigh the integrity of data found on the Internet.
Tags: production; site ownership; spelling errors; domain name; WHOIS database; trust meter; credibility; protocols: WAIS; Telnet; Gopher; FTP servers
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Tipsheet No: 533
This packet contains Pizzo's pieces Domain Name Fees Benefit Defense Contractor, Spymaster Meets Webmaster, The Seduction of Cyrpto Ag, Familiar Faces -- Familiar Places, and A Back Door for the NSA, as well as an extensive list of government, political and other handy resource sites. A prior commitment kept Wayne Madsen, Washington correspondent, from participating on the panel. However, he still submitted his handout -- a great list of some of the hottest web sites for anyone interested in keeping track of international intelligence on the Internet. Audio tape available through the IRE Resource Center at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ ire.org. Ask for tape #IRE96-51.