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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Watchdog Investigations in Tough Times
Collister offers suggestions for watchdog stories to do during these tough times. Included: following stimulus funds; Congressional spending; discretionary spending of governments; farm subsidies; and many others. He also gives brief accounts of good investigative work being done across the country using these as suggestions for similar watchdog reporting in your own newsroom.
Tags: investigative reporting; broadcast; government spending; watchdog reporting;
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International data
Mulvad explores a myriad of available international data sets, including information on the quality of the data sets. Included are: farm subsidy data, fish subsidy data, lobby register; business data; and the status of other data sets in the European Union.
Tags: international; international data; farm subsidy data; European Union; EU; wobbing
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www.farmsubsidy.org tipsheet
Alfter and Mulvad detail how they built farmsubsidy.org using data from EU countries. They suggest you find partners to do stories on AMerican investors, farm-bill consequences, WTO negotiations or how farm subsidies in devloped world impact developing countries like the Dominican Republic.
Tags: None
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Agriculture subsidy stories
Tips for stories within your state and possible sources of information on US farm subsidies.
Tags: farms; databases; Internet; subsidy; agriculture; government
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Spanish Translation of Investigating European Farmbusiness: Networking is the key
This is the Spanish translation of tipsheet #2681. Como obtener informacion para investigar los negocios agricolas europeos.
Tags: Agricultura; agricola; europa; subsidios; espanol; 2681
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Spanish Translation of Investigating European Farmbusiness: Networking is the key
This is the Spanish translation of tipsheet #2681. Brigitte Alfter proporciona consejos para investigar la industria agricola en los EEUU y la Union Europea. Tambien da informacion acerca de la Ley de Acceso a la Informacion en los EEUU. Adicionalmente, hay muchos enlaces utiles que pueden ayudar a los reporteros en su labor.
Tags: 2681; agricultura; union europea; libertad de informacion; FOI; acceso a la informacion; espanol; negocios agrÃcolas europeos;
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Harvesting Cash: Tracking the money in U.S. farm subsidies
Cohen discusses her 2006 investigation into farm subsidy and crop insurance fraud. She explains the records and data she analyzed to report the story and the results she found.
Tags: farming; industry; federal government; fraud; data analysis; agriculture
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Farming for Stories
Clarke offers some ideas about how to use USDA data for agricultural CAR projects. She includes tips about how to spot fraud, along with other story ideas. Clarke also lists several resources that could be useful for this sort of project, such as the Environmental Working Group and the Census of Agriculture.
Tags: agriculture; farming; subsidies; computer-assisted reporting; farmers; non-profits; data anlysis
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Investigating European Farmbusinesses: Networking is the key
Brigitte Alfter provides tips about how to investigate the farm and agriculture industry in the US and the EU. She also gives information about FOI in the EU. Furthermore, she provides many helpful Web links which can aid reporters in their reporting. Spanish version: 2868
Tags: Agriculture; European Union (EU); Freedom of Information (FOI); Spanish; Espanol
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Farming subsidies is key to investigate fraud in EU
Mulvad explains how DICAR investigated farming subsidies in the EU. He discusses how the reporters negotiated for and analyzed the data, and then shared the results of the investigation.
Tags: farming; federal government; FOI; freedom of information; international issues reporting