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 "public affairs" ...
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Tools, Techniques, and Research for Public Affairs Reporting
The Reporter's Lab aims to produce reviews that are consistent, independent, fair and above all, useful for a reporter with little time or patience for technical details.
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Covering Indian Gaming is a Tough Job
It's a tough job but Mike Adams gives you a leg up with this tipsheet. Indian nations are independent and generally do not have FOI laws, but there are ways of getting around that. Adams lists websites and public records that might have information on dealings Indian nations have with entities that DO keep public records. For example, look into the municipal bond market, the National Indian Gaming Commission, and the SEC. He also gives examples of investigations he did into specific tribes and where he found success. He further profiles the National Indian Gaming Comission in a packet available for mail orders.
Tags: Gambling; casinos; Indian nations; tribes; reservations; Bureau of Indian Affairs
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IRE Consumer Ideas
This tipsheet offers a long list of consumer investigations that the authors have conducted at their news organizations. In addition to these story ideas are lists of possible consumer scams and complaints that would be worth checking out in any community.
Tags: broadcast; consumer affairs; investigative reporting; consumer groups; story ideas; scams; public complaints; Internet scams
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Ideas and resources for investigative stories
Joan Claybrook of Public Citizen offers a primer to 7 separate issues that affect the public; medical malpractice, health, electricity deregulation, auto safety, food, global trade, and campaign finance. Medical malpractice, deregulation, auto safety, and campaign finance each have additional information on the subjects in this comprehensive tipsheet.
Tags: medical malpractice; health; doctors; hospitals; prescriptions; enron; deregulation; ford; firestone; tires; lobbying; nonprofit; campaign finance; 527; NAFTA; data; irradiation
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Data for the Military Beat
Military information can sometimes be difficult to obtain. But this tipsheet provides a number of places to go where you can find useful military data. Sources include Census, Pentagon, National Archives and FAA databases. Several databases on veterans highlighted. Even resources for finding planes being hit by birds.
Tags: veterans; 2000 census; public use microdata sample; PUMS; military personnel registry; department of veterans affairs; veterans affairs; national cemetery administration; NICAR; air force safety center; bird strikes; aircraft
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Army's PA (Public Affairs) Guide to Dealing with the USMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice)
"We developed this guide to provide assistance to Army public affairs offices preparing to provide support in high-profile military courts-martial proceedings."
Tags: Department of Defense; DoD; accused; right to trial; media; FOIA; information; scheduling; restitution; command function
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Air Force's PA (Public Affairs) Guide to Dealing with UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice)
This is the Air Force's Public Affairs manual for releasing information to the media and public about military trial proceedings
Tags: privacy; FOIA; information; releasable/not releasable information; duty location; duty station; death; education; discharge types; DoD homosexual conduct policy
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Guidance Given to Dinfos Students on Release of Information
"This is general guidance for releasing information under different situations. The senior commander is responsible for releasing information to the public. Even though material is unclassified or has been cleared through security review channels, do not release it to the public unless the commander approves the material for that purpose."
Tags: military guide; personal information; accident/incidents; accused people; personnel; references; privacy; public affairs
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National Defense Authorization Act, 1990; "Principles of Information", Cohen, 1997; FOI Letter, McNamara, 1967
Yes, there is an ombudsman at the DoD who makes sure that the First Amendment right of military personnel and their families are protected through the Stars and Stripes newspaper. This tipsheet is part of the Act that makes the Stars and Stripes an independent shop, a memo from former Secretary of Defense McNamera reaffirming the public information policy of the DoD from 1967, and the "Principles of Information" Memo from today's DoD.
Tags: FOIA; Freedom of Information; classified information; public affairs; security classifications; national security
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Department of Defense Directive
This is the actual directive of the policies in operation between the editorally independent Stars and Stripes and the Dept. of Defense.
Tags: newspaper; legal; agreement; military morale; public affairs; recreation; news; dependents