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 "fatal crashes" ...
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"Crash Course" and "On the Wings of Controversy"
Crash Course-This tipsheet deals with traffic reports. It explains how to obtain this type of data and analyze it. The tipsheet explains how the reporters broke down the database to come up with specific findings. On the Wings of Controversy-The tipsheet deals with airplane flight information. It talks about how the reporters obtained flight manifests and put it into a computer spreadsheet from paper records. It talks about how passenger, flight departure, and arrival information was analyzed to determine if a university airplane was being used for personal matters.
Tags: Interstate interchange; hazardous interchange; accident rate; crash database; injuries; fatal crashes; traffic engineers; transportation planners; traffic counts; AAA; UT Center for Transportation Research; Metropolitan Planning Commission; Department of Transportation; University of Tennessee; airplane; flight manifests
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Using state highway crash databases
It’s probably not worth trying to cover every injury crash as spot news. Even if your coverage area includes just 300,000 people, that would mean writing about more than 500 injured people each week! But it suggests that you might want to try to do more enterprise. One resource is your state’s crash database. Overberg gives some suggestions on how to do some enterprise work using crash data.
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