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• Jaimi and Mark’s cool Web tools

  IRE's training director and IRE's executive director review their favorite web tools.

  Tags: search tools; visualize tools; uploading files

  By Jaimi Dowdell

  2012

• Year in CAR 2011

  IRE Executive Director, Horvit, and IRE Training Director, Haddix, review the year in CAR with this extensive PowerPoint. With over two dozen examples, you can see that CAR stories are not just about the data.

  Tags: CAR; data

  By Doug Haddix, Mark Horvit

  2011

• Visualizing Text

  Auvil's powerpoint explores using data for knowledge discovery/interpretation. She also explores applications for Meandre and the different visualizations it makes possible. (Meandre is a semantic-web-driven data-intensive flow execution environment.)

  Tags: data; visualization; silos; mashups; dataflow executions;

  By Loretta Auvil

  2011

• The Art of the Interview: how to do great interview, on the fly or going dee

  Hall give reporters tips for doing great interviews in any situation. He advises that reporters know their story before going into the interview, and gives detailed information regarding how one should adequately prepare. Included in the tipsheet is information on executing the interview, and the follow-up.

  Tags: interviewing; interviews; Eric Nalder; john Ullmann; Mike McGraw; Joe Stephens; Christine Willmesen, Jane Hansen, Mark Skertic, David Cay Johnston; Diana Henriques; Michael Berens; interviewing tipsheets

  By Andy Hall

  2009

• Welcome to the Real World: Importing, rearranging and cleaning data

  Porter explains each step of cleaning data in Microsoft Access. He begins by explaining how to import delimited data. He also discusses how to split fields and parse data. Porter explains the query language for executing these commands.

  Tags: SQL; Microsoft Access; database analysis; raw data

  By Jeff Porter

  2007

• What Matters When Filing a Records Request Under New York's Freedom of Information Law

  This tipsheet begins with some tips about how to get the most out of New York's FOIL law, and ends with an explanation of the law by Robert Freeman, the executive director of the Committee on Open Government.

  Tags: public records; freedom of information; state government; watchdog organizations

  By None

  2006

• Proxy Power: What a vital SEC filing tells you about public companies

  The author explains how reporters can use corporate proxy statements to find information about corporate executives. For instance, executive's backgrounds, salaries, contracts and stockholdings are all available in these documents.

  Tags: business; corporations; beat reporting; stockholders; Securities and Exchange Commission

  By David Dietz

  2006

• Buying Politicians, Cases in India

  The author describes how he planned and executed a sting operation to show that it is easy to buy politicians in India.

  Tags: politics; international politics; weapons dealers; hidden cameras

  By Harinder Baweja

  2005

• Basics of Investigating Big Business: Digging into Corporate Reports and Numbers

  This tipsheet lists key documents and people sources that are useful when investigating a business. The lists include SEC filings, court filings, insider trading records, former executives and accounting experts. The tipsheet also includes a list of "red flags" that could signal corporate problems. The tipsheet includes some articles by the Wall Street Journal that show how those tips were implemented.

  Tags: business; filings; fraud; corporate fraud; accounting

  By Mark Maremont

  2005

• The business beat: Investigating the corporation

  The authors offer several tips for digging up dirt on corporations. Some of the advice includes "Find out who has sued the company" and "Find out who quit."

  Tags: business; executives; SEC; public records; corporations; beat reporting

  By Sharon Chan, David Heath

  2005