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 "online investigative journalism" ...
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Getting the most mileage out of your broadcast investigation
McKie advises journalists to "choose a topic that has important public policy implications," and then, quoting Carl Sessions Stepp 'show the impact of your story." On methodology, he suggests locating the "greatest number of records" and identifying the players: regulators, advocates, winners, losers, etc. McKie also has advice on story lines, getting the most out of the Web and building a team, and including the online people from the beginning.
Tags: public policy; government action; government inaction; regulators; E-journalism; workplace safety; story ideas; convergence; broadcast track
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Mastering the Web as an Investigative Tool: How to search the web, find news, and search behind a web page or chat. And Much, much more.
The author reviews many very useful online tools for journalists. The list includes different browsers, toolbars, search engines and news alert features. Sher explains how to use each tool, and why it is helpful for journalists.
Tags: Firefox; Real Simple Syndication; RSS; Google; search engines; news alerts; domain codes; chat rooms; backgrounding; invisible web
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Staying Sane: Managing stress and trauma on investigative projects
This tipsheet offers lots of advice about dealing with the stress that often accompanies investigative projects. Topics include emotional injury (and how to avoid it), distancing oneself from the project and how to spot warning signs of emotional trauma. The tipsheet also includes a printout of the Dart Center's online guide to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Tags: stress; emotional distress; grief; writing; human relations; sources
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Maintaining free speech in a panic about privacy
This handout contains a list of tips of how to put an investigation on the Web.
Tags: Internet; investigative reporting; Online journalism; Web
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Making the transition from traditional to online journalism in 5 easy steps
This tipsheet lists five steps to follow when switching from traditional journalism to online investigative journalism.
Tags: online publishing; online newsgathering; online investigative journalism
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Information Highway Indeed
This tipsheet consists an article from the Washington Post by Leslie Walker. It includes facts about Internet journalism and Web newscast. This article also reports on how the Internet crime news service APB Online got started.
Tags: None
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Colliding Databases: Covering disasters and accidents; How I Investigated the Story: ValuJet and the FAA; Aviation Sites Online; Crash Course: Databases of Transportation Accidents
This handout includes tips for aviation reporting and information on databases of transportation accidents and transportation Web sites.
Tags: aviation; databases; transportation; accidents; Web sites
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The Business of War: Multinational Arms Trade. Key sources and documents.
According to the tipsheet, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists began publishing an 11-part online series entitled, "Making a Killing: The Business of War" in October 2002. This tipsheet contains an extensive list of internet and print sources used in that investigation. The links also include brief descriptions.
Tags: international reporting; ICIJ; war; killing; war reporting; business of war; violence