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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Git and Github: Learning to commit to version control
You need version control, and git is the answer. This class will introduce basic git commands and walk you through using the social coding site Github to store and organize your projects. It's ideal for anyone working on web development, scraping and scripting to gather or clean data. You should set up an account on Github before the class, and it's recommended, but not compulsory, that you be comfortable navigating the command line.
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Bulletproofing the Big Story
The tipsheet goes over the best ways organize your story, budget your time and know your sources.
Tags: bulletproof; fact check
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Forming and Operating a Tax-Exempt Journalism Organization
Hermes extensively lays out what it means to be a tax-exempt journalism organization and the history behind it and provides legal resources for anyone interested in starting their own nonprofit center.
Tags: nonprofits; tax-exempt; 990; 501(c)(3)
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Investigating Shadowy Organizations
Whether you're investigating the CIA or a sports team, use this tipsheet from award winning reporter, Apuzzo, to cover that shadowy organization.
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Consumer Investigation
"You can master consumer investigations whether it’s your regular beat or an area in which you dabble on occasion. The key is knowing where to look and how to organize." This tipsheet by Galli, Limor and Savio will tell you just what you need to know.
Tags: backgrounding; consumer story
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Bluefin: A $4 Billion Black Market
This powerpoint comes straight from the IRE award wining "Looting The Seas". Get tips on how to cover crime across borders, with many different organizations as partners.
Tags: collaboration; international; partnership; bluefin tuna;
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A quick guide to collaboration
If you are working on a collaboration with another organization, use these tips to help prioritize your work, get the job done, and getting your hard work out there.
Tags: collaboration; organizations; quick guide
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Starting up: Lessons Learned in Creating Investigative Centers
Get advice from the pro's on starting a nonprofit investigative newsroom, best practices for producing editorial content, transparency in financial operations, and handling administrative and technical issues.
Tags: nonprofit; organization; starting-up
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Organizing chronologies with timeline tools
Follow the link to TimelineSetter ('creates beautiful timelines') where it explains everything you need to know on how to use it: http://propublica.github.com/timeline-setter/
Tags: timelines; chronologies
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TimeFlow: An Analytical timeline for reporters
TimeFlow is "a tool created by reporters....that manages chronologies and timelines." It's intended to help keep notes on long-running stories; compiling materials for disparate projects in a way that allows one to see patterns; organize/reconstruct events. This tipsheet walks one through using the program.
Tags: TimeFlow; timelines; data; organization; visualization; calendar;