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 "ocean" ...
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Uncovering industry pollution
Kim's tipsheet reviews his IRE Award-winning investigation of ocean dumping off the Korean coast and its effects on marine ecosystems. It traces how he started the story, sources he used and the role of scientific research. The tipsheet serves as a how-to guide for ocean pollution research.
Tags: pollution; ocean dumping; ecosystems; contamination; water pollution; science; toxic waste; marine research
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White Fish, Black Catches: Norwegian companies were leasing out old fishing ships to Russians, who were using them for illegal fishing in the Nordic Seas
The authors go into a lot of detail explaining every stage of their investigation into an illegal fishing operation. Russians were using Norwegian fishing boats, and operating with false paperwork and pretense, to fish illegally in the Nordic Seas. The authors explain how they uncovered the scam and worked with other media organizations to broadcast their findings.
Tags: television; broadcast journalism; fishing; food; ocean; boats; international journalism
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Hurricane/Disaster CAR
The four hurricanes that battered Florida in 2004 made for one of the most remarkable, memorable, and costly hurricane seasons in history. John Maines has suggestions and resources for reporters covering emergency situations, from the Federal Emergency Managment Agency, to private companies who provide images of destruction for free.
Tags: FEMA; Federal Emergency Management Agency; hurricane; disasters; flooding; earthquake; storm; tornado; HAZUS software; Small Business Administration; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; National Hurricane Center; NOAA's Hurricane Research Division; Florida Division of Emergency Managment
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Lessons from the Gulf
Zollo shares knowledge and experience she gained from doing an investigation about a black mass of water in Florida Bay in March 2002. Zollo provides many tips that she learned from this investigation, along with tips from her colleagues at the Naples Daily News a list of helpful websites.
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American FactFinder: A beginner’s guide to getting just a little local census data
How does a beginner with just a browser and a spreadsheet keep from drowning in oceans of census data? One way is American FactFinder, the Census Bureau’s data dissemination site. After a long, clumsy development stage, it has steadily improved. It offers so much -- and several ways of finding it -- that it takes a little work to learn the navigation. But it’s now pretty simple to drill down to a small area, extract just a little data and download or print it. Here’s a step-by-step guide to getting just one county worth of neighborhood-level data on one subject, a typical task for many newsrooms. The example uses Census 2000 public and private school enrollment for Bucks County, Pa., but you can adapt as needed:
Tags: None
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In Deep: Covering the Oceans that Cover the Earth
This story from the IRE Journal details how to cover a big topic such as the governance of the oceans. There are many stories here ranging from the environment to business, to real estate.
Tags: oceans; environment
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Telling Better Fish Stories
Describes how to write and pitch ocean environment stories. Tells journalists why these stories are important. Includes a story not available for download concerning the rebounding of the California Sardine industry.
Tags: environment; fishing; oceans; conservation
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Pew Oceans Comissions Media Tipsheet
Discusses the future of the American fishing industry with website addresses for more information
Tags: environment; oceans; fishing
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Diving for Pearls in an Oceans of Data
Stephanie Reitz of the Hartford Courant offers tips for building your own people finder from lists of registered voters, motor vehicles registration records and dog licenses.
Tags: local government