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 "primaries" ...
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Farenthold Quandary
This tipsheet teaches you how to predict voter turnout.
Tags: voter turnout; primaries
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Tracing Money in California Politics
Campbell details how to trace campaign finance information for the state of California, \"the ATM of national politics.\" The tipsheet aids in navigating information on the Secretary of State website, identifies the different ways you can search for candidates (since the 2000 primary), how to download the info into excel.
Tags: campaign finance; California; politics; donors; Secretary of State; money in politics; political contributions; campaign donations
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Welcome to the long, long, long (really, really long), painfully long, long, long (did we mention long?) road to election day 2008
The authors discuss why it is important to begin election planning now. They discuss the front-loaded primaries and new campaign finance restrictions.
Tags: elections; politics; federal government; campaign finance; beat reporting
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How to dissect a business
A how-to guide about investigating businesses. This tipsheet offers starting points, primary source ideas, human sources and market data. A must have for any reporter working on a story with a business slant.
Tags: company
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The Secret Marks of the Primary and Lower Secondary Schools
This tipsheet features advice for reporters about how to gather information and data about schools. Also includes an article entitled, "Open Doors to Data: How we Changed Access in Denmark." This tipsheet is target toward the International community.
Tags: international reporting; schools; Denmark; data; access; information
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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: 164
The NCCPR packet contains 12 issue papers about child protection reform. The primary contention of the papers is that child protection services often break up families for little or no reason and then subject the children to worse fates, even death, than they would have received at home.
Tags: 13 double-sided pages