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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Backgrounding Candidates
Frank provides some good sources to use when gathering background information on candidates for election in Colorado.
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Investigating Outbreaks
Layton details how to cover foodborne illness outbreaks on the fly. Included along with details of where you gather information, Layton provides a detailed list of helpful resources - from consumer groups to subject experts.
Tags: health; foodborne illness; FDA; Food and Drug Administration; CDC; Centers for Disease Control; 483 report; food safety
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Sources and Interviewing
A helpful tipsheet that addresses some of the nuances of the interviewing process. Berens gives ten basic types of sources, from the disgruntles source to the circumstantial source, and tell how best to obtain information from them based on their motives. A few pointers on cultivating sources and interviewing techniques wrap up this helpful tipsheet.
Tags: Interview; sources; news gathering
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Legal Tips for Investigative Reporting
Here's some lawyerly advice on when use of hidden cameras are appropriate, necessary and importantly -- legally defensible
Tags: public access; fairness; public health; news gathering; email security breach; keeping documents from a source; solicit to break law; gag motion; lawyers
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Getting the Story While Avoiding a Lawsuit
This tipsheet includes a list of five proactive ways to use your newsroom attorney and examples of court battles over involving the media.
Tags: Hidden camera
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Crisis Management in the Newsroom
The purpose of crisis management is to effectively manage communications and to emerge from a crisis with one's reputation, credibility and business intact. This tipsheet provides some management do's and don'ts when facing a crisis.
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Using the Computer to Organize Your Traditional Reporting
A complete CAR tool kit for a newsroom should include a means for each journalist to build a secure, personal archive that can track the contacts, interviews and documents that one gathers in preparing a story and over the course of a career. This tipsheet provides tips for creating such a system.
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Tipsheet No: 663
Paul's handouts from this three-hour session describe how to teach computer-assisted reporting techniques. She includes skills surveys, action plans, training surveys and an excellent detailed guide to using the Internet for news gathering. Also includes handouts by Jennifer LaFleur and R. Ganyze of the San Jose Mercury News on CAR training and data cleaning. Information on ProfNet also included. Audio tape is available for purchase from the IRE Resource Center. Contact us at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org.
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Doctor Doctor give me the news
Barbanel provides a list of basic sources that will help you to get to know hospital records. Included is a list of states with legislative mandates to gather hospital-level data, complete with names, titles, addresses, phone numbers and fax, and a list of data files maintained by state data orgaizations.
Tags: hospital; records; medicine; doctors; public records