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• Spycraft: Keeping your sources private

  Doig discusses different ways to protect your privacy when working on investigations. This Powerpoint presentation covers how to keep internet searches private, how to make untraceable calls, encryption and decryption programs, and tricking keyloggers.

  Tags: security; internet; online searching; search engines; investigative reporting; sources; privacy

  By Steve Doig

  2007

• Investigating Environmental Regulatory Agencies

  Scott Streater provides tips for reporters who are working on environmental investigations. He explains how to find sources, get data and know open record laws. Streater also gives a list of helpful Web sites for reporters who are requesting records.

  Tags: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); pollution; FOIA; Freedom of Information; public records

  By Scott Streater

  2006

• The Early Development of Journalists' Privilege

  Tobin analyzes the history of journalists' right to keep sources confidential, as it has been determined by U.S. courts. Although protecting critics of the government was undoubtedly part of what the Framers of the Constitution intended when they wrote the First Amendment, journalists' privilege has not been upheld by the courts. However, the U.S. Supreme Court's divided decisions in Branzburg v. Hayes affirmed that if it is too easy to compel journalists to reveal sources, courts will "undermine one of the central principles on which the Revolutiuonary War was waged and that has allowed the press to flourish."

  Tags: protecting sources; journalistic privilege; anonymous sources; confidentiality; history of american journalism; journalism and government; First Amendment; whistleblowers

  By Charles Tobin

  2005

• Protecting and Cultivating Sources

  In addition to listing ways to build relationships with sources, Maass offers important ideas for reporters to protect their sources. "In 20 years of investigative reporting, I've developed some ideas and guidelines on how to cultivate news sources, and more importantly, how to protect sources. I fully believe we have a moral obligation to fully counsel potential sources on how their information will be used, and on the potential consequences they may face."

  Tags: broadcast; sources; confidentiality agreement; anonymous source; unnamed source; protecting sources

  By Brian Maass

  2004

• "Using data to uncover workplace dangers and abuses"

  This tipsheet provides tips on how to find data from agencies, and what to do if agencies won't give you data. It also includes information about analyzing data sets. The tipsheet also includes a list of important data sources, with links to their websites and descriptions of the data they might have. Additionally, this tipsheet has resources from the U.S. Department of Labor and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health websites that includes a list of their available statistics and data sets.

  Tags: U.S. Department of Labor; Injuries; Illnesses; Fatalities; record keeping; NIOSH; respirators and personal protective equipment; agency; workers' compensation; Centers for Disease Control; CDC; OSHA; licensing agencies; Health departments; environmental health standards; institutional health standards; public health hazards

  By Christine Stapleton

  2004

• Digging into Environmental Data

  Water pollution is not always evident to the naked eye. The damage "happens out of sight, underwater." This tipsheet provides a list of websites and databases that can "help track down polluters and show whether regulatory agencies are protecting the public and environment." Includes sites dealing with historic pollution such as sediment analysis and information on the cleanup of polluted sites, as well as sources for current pollution information through EPA and other databases. Several environmental groups to consult also provided.

  Tags: environment; cleanup; pollution; sediments; polluted site cleanup; national pollutant discharge elimination system; NPDES; EPA; toxic release inventory; stormwater; contamination; marine life

  By Robert McClure

  2003

• Tipsheet No: 1386

  James Bruggers provides tips for reporting on solvents and asbestos. Tipsheet includes sources and examples of stories.

  Tags: environment; health; asbestos; solvents; investigations; medical care; testing; Environmental Protection Agency

  By James Bruggers

  2001

• Reassuring Reluctant Sources

  This 15-point listing is the how-to of the interview. If you find that you're meeting some resistance from sources, consider Merina's common sense advice which includes avoiding melodrama and checking in with sources often.

  Tags: chronology; protect source; confidentiality; listening

  By Victor Merina

  2000

• Tipsheet No: 730

  This handout covers how to investigate charges of child abuse. The handout includes tips on sources and a list of child abuse experts and resources. The file also contains a Seattle Times article on children dying while under Washington's child-protection program. Audio tape is available for purchase from the IRE Resource Center. Contact us at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org.

  Tags: Neglect Social services 19 pgs.

  By None

  1997

• Tipsheet No: 193

  "Some sources for Reporters Covering Toxic Release Inventory" includes several sources of information on the TRI, including a list of telephone and online sources from the EPA to the Working Group on Community Right-to-Know, a step-by-step guide to accessing chemical release information on the Internet (via gopher and file transfer) and an article listing problems with TRI availability and other sources of information.

  Tags: 12 pages Environmental Protection Agency CAJ CAR

  By None

  1994