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• How to find a Serial Killer

  "If you work in a medium- to large-size city, the odds are very good that there are unsolved serial killings in your community." Hargrove gives quick tips on how to search for unsolved murders.

  Tags: cold case; serial killer; unsolved murders; "pattern blindness"

  By Tom Hargrove

  2011

• Project “K” Meets Project “A”

  "30 years ago, journalists from dozens of news outlets joined hands (and pens) in Arizona after reporter Don Bolles was killed. A similar effort is underway after last year’s murder of Paul Klebnikov in Moscow."

  Tags: Paul Klebnikov; Russia; journalist;

  By Richard Behar

  2007

• Walking the graveyards: caring about victims and the powerless so that we drive closer to the truth

  This succinct tipsheet offers advice on conducting investigations of unsolved murders. Suggestions range from interview techniques to coping skills for the emotional weight that comes with immersion in murder stories to motivational techniques.

  Tags: murder; justice; crime; victims; investigations; criminal justice system; killings; law enforcement; interviewing; immersion journalism

  By Ruth Teichroeb, Bruce Shapiro, Miles Moffeit, Paul McEnroe, Scott North

  2006

• Simulations: As Computer-Assisted Reporting Tools

  Paul Parker, a reporter for The Providence Journal, takes a look at how reporters can use simulations to predict future conditions. For example, The Providence Journal used a computer model to simulate how people tried to escape the February 20, 2003 fire at The Station nightclub in West Warwick, RI, that killed 100 people. The simulation predicted how patrons were trapped deep inside the club at a bottleneck leading to the main exit. It also predicted everyone could have escaped alive if minor structural modifications had been done on the building.

  Tags: real-world simulations; computer simulations; future conditions; simulation software

  By Paul Edward Parker

  2005

• Investigating Environmental Watchdogs

  The Supercar was supposed to solve a variety of environmental problems in the U.S. Shortly after George W. Bush took office as President, the project was killed. Roe investigated who or what killed the Supercar for the Chicago Tribune. This handout gives a summary of the investigation, as well as contacts, web sites and data on the subject.

  Tags: environment; Supercar; fuel efficiency; EPA; cars; automobiles; Sierra Club; national resources; gasoline; science

  By Sam Roe

  2003

• After the death of a journalist: the stories to do; the work to finish

  This is a transcript of the keynote speech by Fernando Rodrigues at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference. According to the speaker, the speech is about "the attacks against journalists and deaths of journalists on duty around the world." The speech includes facts and figures about journalists who have been killed, arrested, etc.

  Tags: Fernando Rodrigues; Global Investigative Journalism Conference; attacks on journalists; journalists; journalists killed on duty; attacks; journalists in danger

  By Fernando Rodrigues

  2003

• Cross-cultural investigative reporting

  This tipsheet includes a narrative about the author's coverage of an Asian-American man who was killed during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The tipsheet also includes a list of suggestions on how to improve cross-cultrual investigative stories a reading list on cross-cultural journalism

  Tags: None

  By Victor Merina

  1999

• Killing of a Journalist: How to effectively investigate the murders of journalists. An Experience from Mozambique.

  In this tipsheet, the author talks about his "personal experience in Mozambique, related to the murder of [his] editor Carlos Cardoso and what has been done, so far, by his colleagues and the civil society in order to ensure that the people responsible for the assassination are in court."

  Tags: journalism; international reporting; murder; danger; editor; Mozambique; risk; Carlos Cardoso

  By Marcelo Mosse

  2003

• Examining the Serial Killer

  This tipsheet includes tips for covering the trail of a serial killer and the serial killer series, Who Killed Audrey Cardenas, by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

  Tags: None

  By Carolyn Tuft

  1999

• Tipsheet No: 748

  This handout is part of Bob Greene's bus tour of Phoenix and sites in Phoenix which were significant to Don Bolles and the Desert Rats in the late 1970s. The packet includes an itinerary for the tour as well as the last notes Don Bolles wrote before the explosion that killed him. The handout also includes some of the police reports on the Bolles case. No audio tape available.

  Tags: 11 pgs.

  By None

  1997