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 "projects" ...
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Project Checklist
Award winning reporter, Michael Berens, shares his checklist for when he embarks on a project that is near and dear to him.
Tags: checklist; enterprise projects
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Forming and Operating a Tax-Exempt Journalism Organization
Hermes extensively lays out what it means to be a tax-exempt journalism organization and the history behind it and provides legal resources for anyone interested in starting their own nonprofit center.
Tags: nonprofits; tax-exempt; 990; 501(c)(3)
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Managing Multimedia Projects
Managers, use this tipsheet and end up with a "rich multimedia project". From start to finish, Ciotta, DeBarros and Moughty will guide you along the way.
Tags: multimedia; multiplatform; managing; deadlines; progress
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Finding the holes in economic impact studies
Use this tipsheet when looking into studies that claim projects have an economic impact -- often used when someone wants to build a stadium, change a government regulation, promote tourism or bring a factory to town.
Tags: economic inpact study
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Project Checklist
Berens shares his fail-safe checklist for discretionary projects. It includes great questions to ask yourself to make your story stand out.
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Toll Project Development and Finance
Toll Projects Development and Finance Tipsheet.
Tags: Finance; Toll Project
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Turning Your Stories into a Tablet or Phone Ap
Learn how to put your projects on mobile devices and turn your stories into mobile applications.
Tags: Mobile Phone; Tablet
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Making friends with map projections
Welsh goes over the inaccuracies of flat maps and the different methods to avoid their shortcomings.
Tags: map; map projection; flat map; mercator; utm; state plane coordinates
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Census 2010 Basics
In this tipsheet, Steve Doig outlines the 2010 census, including the questions asked and possible stories that could come from the data. The tipsheet also explains the IRE census project, where to find data and new features that are available on the census data website.
Tags: census; data; IRE; dataferret; census bureau
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Funding Your Project
Gain valuable knowledge from Debruyne, from Belgium, about funding your project overseas. Her Powerpoint gives tips no matter where you are located.
Tags: None