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 "interest income" ...
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Following the Money
Cochran's powerpoint explores the use of data to cover the financial crisis. He provides an overview of banks, and a link to the BankTracker project, by the Investigative Reporting Workshop, that tracks the quarterly reports each bank submits to the FDIC. He also provides information on how to obtain data from the FDIC, and tips on tracking a bank with some details on the types of data available in this data.
Tags: financial crisis; banking; FDIC; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; assets; loans; securities; real estate; loan losses; interest income; non-interest income
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Supreme Court Judges' integrity called into doubt
The reporters of Jyllands-Posten (Denmark) found that senior judges were taking secondary positions that amount to as much as 80 percent of their annual income with little regard to conflict of interest situations that might arise. The court caseload was handled by newer judges. This tipsheet is a summary of the how the reporters used CAR to bring to light this practice and open more public records.
Tags: International; data collection; CAR; statistics; Denmark
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On the Campaign Trail
Tips on profiling candidates, including personal finances, economic interest statements, corporate searches, court records,legislative and executive records, voting records, questionnaires and more.
Tags: Public records; Income tax returns; Property Finance records; Campaign finance