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:
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Governmentwide FOI contact list
This is an excel spreadsheet with hundreds of contacts for different government offices whom you can contact for FOI requests
Tags: FOI contacts
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(More than 5) Databases for criminal justice reporting
Roberts discusses the "data-rich" nature of the criminal justice beat, identifying several key databases for reporters. Examples include 911 response data, jail bookings, jury selection transcripts, National Corrections Reporting program and many more
Tags: crime; arrest; jail; courts; police; criminal justice; violent offenders; sexual offenders; prison; inmates; judicial reporting; NACJD; NCRP; jury; juries; court docket
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Accountability Reporting in Higher Education
Lombardi's tipsheet addresses covering campus crime. She talks about finding sources, a difficult process through the student judicial process. She suggests sources for campus crime data; public records laws by state; and points to a toolkit developed by the Center for Public Integrity for covering campus crime
Tags: higher education; campus security; rape; Victim Rights Law Center; victim advocates; Clery Act; Department of Education; assault
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Investigating conflicts of interest of federal judges
Evans's tipsheet is a step-by-step manual for investigating federal judges' financial conflicts of interest. It includes research methods, key sources, useful web sites and suggestions for communicating with judges.
Tags: criminal justice system; judicial system; judiciary; federal judges; conflict of interest; financial disclosure; corruption; databases; CAR; web sites; interviewing
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Crime victims: Getting the stories behind the statistics
This tipsheet offers advice about how to report on crime victims. It covers everything from approaching the victims to asking difficult questions and being courteous.
Tags: relatives; sources; sourcing; manners; human relations
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Tips and Discussions on Investigating Terrorism
This tipsheet is helpful for anyone interested in judicial practices in Italy, especially concerning terrorism. Leo Sisti outlines three major tips that reporters need to know when covering the Italian court. He also lists several useful websites and telephone numbers.
Tags: court; judicial document; September 11; international; Italy; Rome; terrorism
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Secret Justice: Judicial Speech
This is a booklet that talks about various supreme court judges and highlights their policies on correspondence with the press. The booklet contains a series of articles on cases that have gag orders.
Tags: gag orders; supreme court judges; press correspondence and judges
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The lost stories: How a steady stream of laws, regulations and judicial decisions have eroded reporting on important issues
This tipsheet, a "white paper" published by The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, reviews a host of stories journalists are now hampered from doing because of restrictions on government records. Acts of Congress, new rules by federal agencies, decisions by courts, and overreactions by administrators and bureaucrats have led to a host of "lost stories" that are no longer informing the public about how its government works. The tipsheet also discusses future risks that journalists should watch for and advises journalists on how to compensate for the shortfalls in access.
Tags: FOIA; open records; public records; public access; driver records; medical privacy; homeland security; courts; privacy; electronic records
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Legal Perils: Latest threat to investigative reporting
This tipsheet targets the rights of reporters and the things that should be taken into account when being served a subpoena. One of the questions that it covers is the confidentiality of sources and whether reporters should reveal this information under judicial pressure. It also includes a list of case readings and resources.
Tags: subpoena; reporter's privilege; shield laws; First Amendment; use of confidential sources; confidential sources
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Ten Lessons from the Courthouse
Meitrodt gives ten lessons that will help journalists who must make frequent stops at the courthouse. He explains, among other things, who a journalist should and should not depend on for information and what to do after the verdict.
Tags: Lawyers; Judges; Judicial system; Law