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 "race" ...
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Census 2010: Nuts and Bolts
Doig gives an overview of the 2010 census and discusses the questions covered by the census form. He outlines the categories covered by "race" on the census form. He also addresses the American Community Survey which has replaced the census long form since 2000.
Tags: census; race; demographics; American Community Survey; summary levels; geography levels;
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Investigating Issues of Race and Poverty
Nixon discusses resources for investigating race and poverty. His list includes the U.S. Census Bureau, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and immigration statistics.
Tags: race; poverty; statistics; data; sources; internet research
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Tipsheets on investigations of race and policing
The authors discuss a recent Philadelphia Inquirer investigation into racial profiling in suburban police departments. They then offer suggestions for reporters pursuing similar stories. The suggestions include where to find data and how to analyze it.
Tags: data; racial profiling; police; justice statistics; local government
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Strong Coffee: Using Databases to Investigate Drunken Driving
Branan explores the value of pursuing a story on drunk driving, including what databases are helpful in such an investigation, and how to verify and analyze the information.
Tags: drunk driving; drunken driving; databases; CAR; computer-assisted reporting; FARS (Fatality Analysis Reporting Systems); FBI Age, Race, Sex table, Justice data;
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Finding racial disparities in juvenile arrest data
To get closer towards understanding why crime happens, Moore examined the "racial composition of the children arrested in Columbia,"Missouri. This tipsheet offers advice for gathering information on the subject.
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Home Mortgage Disclosure Act: Working with new race/ethnicity categories
Paula Lavigne discusses how to use HMDA data to analyze lending variations by race and ethnicity. Lavigne discusses the recent changes in Race/ethnicity reporting requirements and how to best analyze the data.
Tags: HMDA: mortgage; lending; data analysis; race
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Finding Census Data Online: An easy reference guide
This is a good guide to extracting useful information from the Census website. The tipsheet lists the information that tis still unavailable, like religious affiliation, as well as the information that is, such as race. The tipsheet ends with a list of links to various sections of the census site.
Tags: population; density; census; analysis; internet
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A pattern of suspicion: Analyzing racial profiling data
Lehren gives a brief overview on how to get started in analyzing the data for a story on racial profiling, noting external and internal benchmarks to use for comparisons and pitfalls to avoid. He notes two studies that are of particular help to journalists and available free on the Internet.
Tags: racial profiling; CAR; computer-assisted reporting; race data; logistic regression
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Analyzing traffic stop data: Rooting out racial disparity
King provides tips on analyzing traffic-stop data to identify racial profiling. She notes the types of data to request, explains benchmarks, types of searches and types of contraband, and gives guidance on how to go beyond the numbers.
Tags: CAR; computer-assisted reporting; databases; traffic stops; racial profiling; race; police; crime; arrests
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Measuring change in our communities: economics
Analyzing economic conditions is an important, but complicated, project. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution did a piece analyzing the fiscal stress of the 600+ cities and counties in Georgia, and this tipsheet gives a basic outline of how it was accomplished.
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