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 "people-finder" ...
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Watchdog/ Internet 101: Getting the Most from the Internet
Reisner's tipsheet reviews some useful sites for internet research. He discusses government sites, WHOIS, demographic sites, public records sites, international sites, people finders, and Google.
Tags: backgrounding; internet research; web; people finders; sources
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Backgrounding People
The author lists websites that are useful for backgrounding people. The sites span a wide range of information, from inmate registrations to airplane ownership records. Some of the suggested resources are fee-based and others are free of charge.
Tags: backgrounding; internet research; public records; people-finder; courts; Florida records
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Backgrounding People on the Internet
This extensive guide to researching people online contains a long list of useful sources including news archives, people/business finders, city data, county data, criminal histories and occupational licenses. The tipsheet also includes Guckian's own suggestions about how to get the most out of search engines and public records.
Tags: internet; backgrounding; sources; web sites; people finder; social networking sites
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Websites for Reporters
This tipsheet lists various web resources for reporters. They are divided into several categories, including: Helpful Public Records Databases; People Finders; Search Tools; Facts and Answers; News Sites and more.
Tags: internet; deep web; invisible web; search engines; online research
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Internet sites
This tipsheet is composed of a list of online resources. It is broken down into several sections; including: people finders; this invisible web; government sites.
Tags: research; search engines; internet; backgrounding
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Internet Tour
This tipsheet is essentially a list of online resources. It includes search engines, people finders, mapping sites, databases and government sites.
Tags: invisible web; search engines; online data; research
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Internet Sites
This tipsheet lists websites that are useful to reporters researching stories. It includes different people finder, specialty search engines and government sites.
Tags: web; invisible web; google.com; research; documents; databases
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Internet Sites
This is a list of websites that are useful for journalists. It includes people finder sites, specialty sites and government sites.
Tags: internet; web; invisisble web; search engines
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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
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Resources for a Newsroom Intranet
As reporters increasingly turn to the web for quick information, it's essential that reporters have quality links to add rich and scrupulous details. Donovan has suggestions for directories, public records, news sources, people finders, searches and general reference.