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 "federal audits" ...
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Hiding in Plain Sight: The Power of Public Records
Mulvihill provides examples of stories done with public records, and outlines your right to access. She discusses how denials of public records requests can become part of the story.
Tags: public records; FOIA; Freedom of Information Act; transparency; data; state audits; federal audits
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Federal Databases
This tipsheet lists ten little-known but very useful federal databases. Nixon explains what data is kept in each one, the format it is available in and how to find it. The list includes data from the EPA and the CDC.
Tags: CPDF; Central Personnel Data File; Equal Opportunity Employment Commission; INS; single audit database; NFIRS
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Tips for covering non-profit organizations
A summary of how to investigate non-profit organizations, this tipsheet covers 990 forms, grant requests, financial audits, internal budgets, and financial reports.
Tags: 990s; financial audits; internal budgets; GuideStar; Federal Audit Clearinghouse
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Dissection via Internet
This tipsheet explains how to find information on the Internet. There's a list of internet websites full of information, along with how to best use the Reporter's Desktop.
Tags: Federal audits; GAO reports; county records; GuideStar; Argali; Google; Reporter's Desktop
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Better Watchdogs: Covering Appalachia
Ken Ward of the Charleston Gazette advises reporters how to talk to lawyers, and read GAO audits and federal agencies' regulatory agendas. Other tips are to avoid relying on press releases, and make law your friend.
Tags: documents; regulations; statutes; General Accounting Office
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Aviation Security: Tracking data & paper
Marchak of the Plain Dealer how to work off deadline on the aviation beat. The handout offers tips how to put in use GAO reports and other audits, and how the Federal Aviation Administration works.
Tags: Aviation Security Act; HazMat; pilots; airports; aircraft
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Finding Hidden Data
Suggestions on how to find hidden electronic databases include cultivating sources among applied social researchers, joining the Association of Public Data users, searching the General Accounting Office audits, and using the Federal Database Finder CD-ROM.
Tags: BBS CAR Internet 1 page