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 "intersections" ...
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Waiting in the Lobby...Using Cal-Access to explore the intersection of policy, politics and money
Palmer explains how to use Cal-Access (the California Secretary of State's website) to uncover the policy agenda of campaign contributors. Palmer includes lots of screen shots and walks you through each stage of the internet investigation.
Tags: campaign finance; campaign donations; FEC; state government; elections
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Transportation & Infrastructure
How can a journalist extract the juice out of the dozens of databases provided by the Ohio Department of Transportation? Cueing off from a 4-day series published by The Dispatch in 2002, this tipsheet suggests story ideas from these databases. They include stories on highway conditions on every mile of interstate and state highway lanes, and inspection reports that include specific criticisms and details about contractor error and work practices. Other stories include wrongful allocation of highway funds, extra cost overruns in contracts, lack of competition among contract bidders. According to the tipsheet, issues of highway inspectors working overtime, and analysis of traffic volume, accidents, etc. are also possible story ideas.
Tags: highways; contractors; construction; ODOT; intersections; Oglesby Construction of Norwalk; "Paved with Problems"