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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Election Night Results & Maps -- Links
The links from John Keefe's presentation covering the 2008 election process.
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Backgrounding Candidates
Grimaldi gives great tips on how to run a background investigation on this year's presidential candidates, as well as anyone else you're backgrounding.
Tags: backgrounding; 2012; presidential election; PowerPoint
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Finding Treasures in Archives: Tips and Resources
"Journalists traditionally have overlooked archival materials," Neff writes. "This is a mistake." Archives can be a great source of information, and archivists are usually more helpful than FOIA officers. Neff lists nine archives and archives directories that can be accessed on the Web.
Tags: Presidential Libraries; National Archives and Records Administration; corporate archives; Library of Congress; documentary sources; congressional collections
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Tracking the money in the 2000 elections
This handout contains tips on how to cover presidential candidates and elections and the money that is raised and used.
Tags: money and politics; presidential campaigns; campaign finance
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Tracking the money in the 2000 elections
This tipsheet helps journalists to track money in presidential campaigns and explains how presidential candidates raise money, etc.
Tags: politics; money; campaign finance; presidential campaign
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Finding Treasures in Archives
Neff's tipsheet shows what can be mined from archival materials, such as the Presidential Libraries and the National Union Catalog and Manuscript Collections.
Tags: archives; libraries; historical records
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Tipsheet No: 837
List of primary and secondary sources for investigating the government, including presidential library archives and Internet sites.
Tags: presidential library; archives; Internet
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Tipsheet No: 382
A guide to archival materials, special-subject collections, and special libraries. Attached are examples of the finding guide and the classification system at the Reagan library to better see what can be gleaned from these special collections.
Tags: Documents; General Accounting Office; Presidential Libraries
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Tipsheet No: 361
Fifteen students from the University of Maryland's College of Journalism each wrote an article from each panel that dealt with covering the bureaucracy from Friday's sessions. Articles cover such topics as the hidden value of presidential archives, accessing military records, tips on covering federal agencies, obtaining electronic data, tips on covering lobbyists, how to find hidden government data bases, etc.
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Tipsheet No: 219
Series of documents from the Big Mountain Support Group detail their attempts to get the EPA to enforce a presidential directive concerning pollution on reservations; residents on reservations in the Black Mesa area (Arizona) have been fighting some of the worst pollution in the country with little success; also at issue are land use disputes wherein coal companies and the Bureau of Indian Affairs are apparently attempting to remove Navajo indians from their land or make them sign leases; documents include descriptions of the poisoning of indians, letters written to and received from the EPA, a brief history of environmental exploitation on the reservation, news stories documenting the continued struggle and a letter of requests sent to a mining corporation which operates in the area.