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 "network" ...
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Lightning Talks: NodeXL for Social Network Analysis
NodeXL is a free template for Excel 2007 and 2010 that makes Social Network Analysis easy for anyone familiar with basic spreadsheet functions. NodeXL has been optimized for analyzing online social media-it includes built-in connections to query the APIs of Twitter, Flickrand YouTube, allowing you to draw networks of users and their activity.
Tags: social network analysis; NodeXL; Excel; API; clustering
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Top iPhone Apps for Journalists
Lorek provides a list of helpful iPhone apps for journalist. They include photo, audio, social networking; geo-locators; fact-checking and other helpful tools.
Tags: iPhone; applications; apps; productivity; reporting tools
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Lessons learned: From boards to stories to business
This tipsheet outlines "survivor stories" at nonprofit investigative start-ups. They cover topics from editorial challenges to financial issues and administrative and technical challenges.
Tags: nonprofit; investigative reporting; board of directors; start-up; budget; payroll; staffing
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Connecting the Dots
Donald's presentation includes examples of social network analysis, and points to resources and websites that map the relationships of power in government, etc.
Tags: social network analysis; UCINET; muckety; TheyRule.net; AnalyzeThe.US; NodeXL;
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Covering returning war veterans
Thompson outlines tips for how to covering returning war veterans. He gives tips for gathering information on soldiers - such as utilizing social networking tools and the benefit of using former soldiers and officers as resources in your reporting.
Tags: veterans; military; Iraq; Afghanistan; facebook; social networking; war reporting; soldier;
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Social Media for Journalists
Haddix gives insight in to how and why social media tools are useful for journalists.
Tags: facebook; twitter; social media; social networks;
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Writing the Investigative Story
Frank gives tips on staying focused on telling the investigative story. She outlines a plan to stay on task with a long-form investigation, especially when you're working on this while meeting daily deadlines.
Tags: investigative reporting; writing; organization;
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Social Network Analysis
This powerpoint presentation describes Social Network Analysis and outlines various applications of SNA in your reporting. Kessler and Dowdell give examples of SNA in work they have completed for various publications
Tags: SNA; social networking; social network analysis; relationships; INSNA; UCINET; DISCUS;
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Pesticides
This tipsheet details various pesticide databases including where they can be found, how to use them and potential issues with the data. Included are pertinent web resources and tips for covering pesticide related stories
Tags: pesticides; Environmental Protection Agency; EPA; extoxnet; Pesticide Action Network; National Pesticide Information Retrieval System; Pesticide Incident Data System; SENSOR
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Broadcast: It's Not Just TV
Outlined are details of the tools you can use to augment your broadcast investigations - from social networking tools (like twitter and facebook) to data mapping. They also list sites you should be familiar with, and numerous examples referenced in the panel.
Tags: social networking; mapping; broadcast; TV; investigation; facebook; myspace; twitter; digg; linkedin; flickr