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 "fact checking" ...
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The one-query story: Quick hits for your newsroom
Amaze your editors and wow your readers with these quick-hit data story ideas. Learn techniques on how to look for the short-form watchdog and how to juggle it all. Afflict the comfortable by fact-checking their statements, find expert sources and use spreadsheets to inform your next project.
Tags: spreadsheets; query; data; car
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No complaints: Navigating the New American Fact Finder, improvements and updates
Learn more about how to use the new American FactFinder, or AFF, which has compiled several censuses and surveys. Check out the new enhancements and more user-friendly features of AFF.
Tags: American FactFinder; AFF; censuses; surveys
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Bulletproofing the Big Story
The tipsheet goes over the best ways organize your story, budget your time and know your sources.
Tags: bulletproof; fact check
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Campaign 2012: Ten tips for fact-checking candidate claims
While covering the election, use Borowski's top ten tips for fact-checking claims.
Tags: campaign; elections; fact-checking
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Top iPhone Apps for Journalists
Lorek provides a list of helpful iPhone apps for journalist. They include photo, audio, social networking; geo-locators; fact-checking and other helpful tools.
Tags: iPhone; applications; apps; productivity; reporting tools
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Visualization as a Reporting Tool
"Some reporters think of graphics as a separate step in the reporting process – something to be considered after the story is largely written and the rest of the art is complete. But reporting with graphics can help throughout the story. The bonus is that it will make the ending art much easier to compile and fact check."
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Daniel Zwerdling\'s assorted reporting tips
Zwerdling offers advice on how to collect information for investigative reporting, with tips on background research to the finish product.
Tags: reporting; sources; interviewing; fact checking; reports
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Writing and Editing the CAR story
McIntosh and Ciotta provide a number of tips on how to go through the writing and editing process when working on CAR stories. They also give advice on how to deal with common writing, data and editing issues.
Tags: computer-assisted reporting; editing; investigative reporting; data; fact checking
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The editing process: teamwork matters
Flores, Phillips and Young explain how to optimize cooperation between editors and reporters working on investigative projects. Their tips pertain to every step of the investigative and writing process; it is organized chronologically.
Tags: editing; reporting; teamwork; fact-checking
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Center for public integrity policy data accuracy
Perry shares the Center for Public Integrity's procedures and policies for computer assisted reporting. It addresses data importation, cleaning, coding, updates and fact checking. It is an extensive explanation of CAR methods. Also included is a summary of the methods used for a story about lobbyists providing legislators with free travel.
Tags: CAR; computer assisted reporting; data; campaign finance; research