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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Reporting on Guns as a Consumer Product
This Powerpoint comes from IRE award winner, Cohn. It follows how he and his team investigated Remington guns, and what they found.
Tags: remington guns; gun reporting; a-political
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Reporting on Guns as a Consumer Product
This IRE award winning report uncovers the dangerous truth behind one of the world's largest gun manufacturer. Learn how to cover gun stories without looking like the bad guy.
Tags: Gun safety; consumer safety; Remington; gun laws; gun regulations
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Free Software: From Spreadsheets to GIS
DeBarros & Fenton provide examples of free software for everything from text editing to office productivity to audio/video/photo editing to database managers & web frameworks.
Tags: free software; spreadsheets; Linux; text editing; Notepad++; Vim; Emacs; jEdit; Open Office; Audacity; Gimp; F-Spot; Open Movie Editor; SQLite; MySQL; PostgreSQL; SQL Server Express; Django; Pylons; Ruby on Rails; Wordpress; Drupal
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Top iPhone Apps for Journalists
Lorek provides a list of helpful iPhone apps for journalist. They include photo, audio, social networking; geo-locators; fact-checking and other helpful tools.
Tags: iPhone; applications; apps; productivity; reporting tools
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Consumer Investigations: Going Deeper and holding bad players accountable
This tipsheet is an exhaustive resource for covering the consumer beat. It includes story ideas, links to pertinent government agencies, links to consumer information and much more.
Tags: consumer investigation; automobile industry; finance; mortgage; sub-prime loans; foreclosure; Consumer Product Safety Commission;
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Consumer Investigations: Going Deeper and holding bad players accountable
This tipsheet is an exhaustive resource for covering the consumer beat. It includes story ideas, links to pertinent government agencies, links to consumer information and much more.
Tags: consumer investigation; automobile industry; finance; mortgage; sub-prime loans; foreclosure; Consumer Product Safety Commission;
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Excel/Access User Defined Functions`
Harbord discusses how Visual Basic for Applications can be used to expand the capabilities of Excel and Access. \\\"Based on the original Basic programming language from the early 70’s, this version is built in to all Microsoft Office products and is similar to Visual Basic version 6.0. Each product like Excel has special capabilities in VBA for accessing and manipulating its specific “objects” such as cells and ranges of cells. (Called the Object Model).\\\"
Tags: visual basic; excel; access; object model; VBA; functions; query
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Using Access 2007
This tipsheet addresses the difference between Access 2003 and Access 2007. "Like all Office 2007 products, Access has introduced the Ribbon, but with Access they didn’t stop there. The new Access is something that takes time to get used to. This handout will serve as a guide to introduce you to Access 2007. Topics covered will include creating databases, importing data, running queries, modifying tables, etc.\\\"
Tags: Access 2003; Access 2007
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Tip Sheet: Testing for lead in children's products
The author explains the Chicago Tribune's recent investigation into the presence of lead in childrens' toys. The authors discuss the equipment they used to test toys, as well as the results of their investigation.
Tags: toys; safety; consumer safety
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Parachuting In: How Investigators Can Enhance Coverage of the Big Story
Strickland discusses how investigative reporters can contribute to newsroom productivity both during breaking news situations and big stories. His ideas include blogging the back story of the breaking news reports, and scouting out experts for investigations.