Resource Center

Tipsheets

 

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 "listening" ...

  • Health Analyses for Any Newsroom

    Journalists have a duty to report on the hospitals, nursing homes, doctors, and clinics that provide medical treatment to their viewers, readers, and listeners. Learn tricks of the health reporting trade in this tip sheet.

    Tags: Health

    By Charles Ornstein, Jeff Porter

    2012

  • Reassuring Reluctant Sources

    This 15-point listing is the how-to of the interview. If you find that you're meeting some resistance from sources, consider Merina's common sense advice which includes avoiding melodrama and checking in with sources often.

    Tags: chronology; protect source; confidentiality; listening

    By Victor Merina

    2000

  • The Art of Interviewing

    This sheet lists 10 tips for a successful broadcast interview. The top three tips are be yourself, listen closely and live in the moment/be flexible.

    Tags: None

    By John Larson

    1999

  • Learning to Listen

    This tipsheet provides tips for interviewing, using confidential sources, writing clearer investigative reports and coaching.

    Tags: None

    By Al Tompkins

    1999