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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Investigating Outbreaks: It's not just about food
Young discusses how to go about investigating outbreaks that threaten public health. She touches on timely issues such as the swine flu outbreak (H1N1). Other stories to follow: sick passengers on airplanes; outbreaks of other notifiable diseases; and school vaccination law compliance
Tags: health reporting; swine flu; H1N1; Centers for Disease Control; notifiable disease database; vaccinations; EMS
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"Crash Course" and "On the Wings of Controversy"
Crash Course-This tipsheet deals with traffic reports. It explains how to obtain this type of data and analyze it. The tipsheet explains how the reporters broke down the database to come up with specific findings. On the Wings of Controversy-The tipsheet deals with airplane flight information. It talks about how the reporters obtained flight manifests and put it into a computer spreadsheet from paper records. It talks about how passenger, flight departure, and arrival information was analyzed to determine if a university airplane was being used for personal matters.
Tags: Interstate interchange; hazardous interchange; accident rate; crash database; injuries; fatal crashes; traffic engineers; transportation planners; traffic counts; AAA; UT Center for Transportation Research; Metropolitan Planning Commission; Department of Transportation; University of Tennessee; airplane; flight manifests
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Using the 2000 Census for non-census stories
Campbell used information from the 2000 Census for " The Transportation Gap", a story about who's commuting on public transportation and "Santa Ana's squeeze." This is not so much a tipsheet as examples of stories enhanced by the Census.
Tags: OCTA; express buses; subsidized transportation; commuter; public transportation; passengers