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 "racial issues" ...
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CAR and COPS
Olsen lists some documents and databases to look into issues relating to law enforcement. These include such documents as police shootings indices, racial profiling data, staffing and jail data and so on.
Tags: CAR; police; internal affairs; medical examiner; uniform crime reporting; UCR; sex offenders.
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Analyzing Speeding Tickets and Racial Profiling Data
This tipsheet offers several suggestions for good stories about speeding tickets, as well as some insight on how a general traffic stop story can turn into a piece about racial profiling. Hacker offers tips for doing the analysis and lists over a dozen of helpful websites like the Justice Research and Statistics Association.
Tags: traffic; speeding; discrimination; tickets; school zones
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Story Ideas
Leamy gives two sets of story ideas regarding consumer issues in this informative tipsheet. The first set deals with story ideas surrounding people or companies breaking laws or regulations. The second set concerns non-regulated areas and the stories you can find there. These story ideas are great for newspapers, magazines, and broadcast stations alike.
Tags: story ideas; consumer issues; regulations; used cars; child exploitation; racial discrimination; home inspections; modeling; credit; pets; pharmacies; ADA; FDA; predatory lenders; FOIA; beauty salons; car repair; cemeteries; solicitation; pyramid schemes; charities; hospitals; headhunters; hazing; pay phones; fire engine chasing; roadside zoos; private schools; spam; lead poisoning; interior design
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Building your own database from start to finish
Meitrodt goes through a case study of the Times Picayune story on riverboat pilots and a smaller summary of racial discrimination in New Orleans. He uses these stories as examples of how building your own database can lead to interesting new angles. Tips and hints on how they did their projects and how they can help you come along in this tipsheet as well.
Tags: database; building your own database; public records; story ideas; beat reporting; racial issues; racial disparity; data entry
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IRE Journal Articles
Joe Donohue provides articles from the January/February 2000 issue of the IRE Journal, which focused entirely on racial profiling and redlining.
Tags: racial profiling
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Basics of Covering Race and Poverty
Tips for backgrounding yourself for covering race and poverty issues; includes sources for statistics in your area, ways to locate victims of poverty and racial discrimination, and common points of friction and ways to identify them. Supplements include a list of federal aid for fiscal years 1980, 1984 and 1990 in 30 major cities, from the U.S. Census Bureau; also a page from Bush's FY 1993 budget with a breakdown of individual programs comparing CBO and President's budget figures.
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