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 "international reporters" ...
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Covering justice in Europe and the U.S.
Sisti gives tips on how to cover crime and justice in Europe and who you need to know to get the information you need.
Tags: International reporting; justice; Abu Omar
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Tracing looted wealth
Coronel provides great tips and useful websites to help you trace international wealth in this Powerpoint presentation.
Tags: Global Financial Integrity Task Force; tracing wealth; assets; corporations
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Investigative Journalism Goes Global
Kaplan gives you tips on how to report on a global scale. Included is how the Global Investigative Journalism Network can help you.
Tags: GIJN, global reporting; international journalism; borders
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Exporting Narcos
Méndez Arriaza provides useful information on how to follow crime internationally, with special attention to Latin America.
Tags: DEA; pacer.gov; international crime
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How to track looted weatlh
Coronel shares how to track illicit money trails, internationally.
Tags: tracking money; corruption; international
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Bluefin: A $4 Billion Black Market
This powerpoint comes straight from the IRE award wining "Looting The Seas". Get tips on how to cover crime across borders, with many different organizations as partners.
Tags: collaboration; international; partnership; bluefin tuna;
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Russian companies’ and people’s records databases
Shleynov's gives a list of public records available about companies and people in Russia; legal records; court records. Links to websites included.
Tags: Russia; public records; people; companies; Russian tax service; legal information; court records
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On the Line: Investigating along the US-Mexico border
Mendoza provides information on freedom of information laws on both sides of the border. She lists a few of her favorite US agencies to FOIA for investigating border issues. She also gives tips on using Mexico FOIA from the US.
Tags: FOIA; border reporting; international issues; Mexico
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Campaign Finance: Tracking the Money
This tipsheet outlines important facts for those reporting on campaign finance and outlines information reporters should look at when analyzing campaign finance information. It also provides links to several useful sites/organizations who track campaign finance information, including some that provide data for download.It also touches on lobbying information.
Tags: campaign finance; lobbying; Federal Election Commission; FEC; PAC; political action committees; Center for Responsive Politics; Sunlight Foundation; Political Party Time; Internal Revenue Service; IRS; National Institute on Money in State Politics; TransparencyData.com; Congrelate.org
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Victims and the Investigative Narrative
This tipsheet discusses the challenges and consideration to make when reporting an investigative project through the story of a victim.
Tags: reporting; story structure; documentation;