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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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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Criminal Court Records
Sullivan lists 18 documents that can help reporters uncover stories in criminal courts. Some examples: judicial assignment and expense records, indigent fee request forms, and judicial disclosure forms.
Tags: judges; inmates; criminal justice
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Covering the courts
This file includes three tipsheets: 1. "Top 10 Court Tips." This tipsheet provides a guide to the different types of courts and the documents used there, along with definitions of other terms. 2. "What to say if a judge closes the courtroom during a civil trial or hearing." This is a script, including a legal citation, to protest the closing of a courtroom. 3. "Covering the Courts: A Journalist's Guide to the California Court System." A document published by Sandi Gibbons, public information officer of the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. The preface reads: "You can take the editor out of the newsroom, but it's a little more difficult to take the newsroom out of the editor. The following is similar to memos that I wrote for reporters while editor of City News Service and city editor of the Daily News in an attempt to help those unfamiliar with the California judicial system cover the courts. Hopefully, it will acquaint you with our rather complex system and offer some basics and a couple of short cuts to save you from spinning your wheels when trying to get information."
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When law enforcement agents turn into suspects
Rosenbloom's extensive handout on the FBI lists names and numbers of the main players, independent experts, and Congress subcommittees, an FBI-speak glossary, a list of documents to seek by FOIA and Waco-related federal documents. Accompanying this package are the Star Tribune articles "The Secretive World of Judicial Discipline" and "U.S. Injustices Took Trips" from West Publishing. Audio tape available through the IRE Resource Center at (573)882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org. Ask for tape #IRE96-71.
Tags: FOI