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 "radio" ...
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How to Snare the Interview
This tipsheet addresses how to get the difficult interviews for broadcast journalists. It gives pointers from "snaring in general" to approaches for specific interviews - the victim; government officials; whistleblowers; corporate types; schemers/scammers; prisoners; and children.
Tags: Interviewing; broadcast; television; radio;
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On the Web/On the Air
This presentation addresses "the new journalism frontier" of multi-platform delivery (TV, web, mobile devices) - and how this impacts every element of your reporting. From knowing your audience to utilizing the tools you have at your disposal.
Tags: broadcast; convergence; television; web; radio; mobile devices; data; mapping;
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Government Waste Initiative
McIntosh addresses the collaborative efforts of the Journal-Constitution, WBS-TV and WBS Radio to cover "questionable government spending, inefficiency and waste." She outlines the documents and public records a reporter should mine when covering the topic of government waste. She also outlines some reporting routines that our beneficial when covering government.
Tags: government waste; public records; budgets; audits; bond issues; expense reports; expense records; lawsuits; salary records; RFPs; RFQs
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Data on Deadline
Benincasa's powerpoint lists several strategies for using data on deadline. He includes story examples with an explanation of the data used in each. He also addresses "readiness strategies" and "geek notes" - tips to help manage an utilize the data you've collected.
Tags: data; deadline; beat reporting; mapping; MySQL; queries; database library; database organization
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Data on Deadline
This tipsheet lists helpful websites to use when you need to access data on deadline. Suggested data links include the American Community Survey to campaign finance data to tracking airplane tail numbers.
Tags: data; quick hit; deadline; census; campaign finance; aviation; transportation; economics; FAA; NHTSA; automobile; consumer safety; politics; courts; federal spending; databases; reporting
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Three Things to Know About 2008 Political Money
Overby explains three important aspects of covering contemporary political campaigns: bundling, joint fundraising committees, and independent groups. For each issue, Overby provides a description, sources of information, and story ideas. The tipsheet also includes a list of useful FEC reports that reporters should recognize and understand.
Tags: campaign finance; FEC; elections; politics; federal government; story ideas; fundraising; 527 groups
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50 Campaign Finance Stories in 50 Minutes
Overby and Salant provide tips that reporters covering campaign finance can use, along with numerous questions they should ask during the reporting process. They also provide a list of Web sites that are helpful to reporters who are tackling this subject.
Tags: investigations; candidate fundraising; elections; political action committees; lobbyists
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Writing for Hollywood
This tipsheet has three sections. Section 1 is the transcript of a National Public Radio story on the increasing collusion between the film industry and journalism. Section 2 is a Newsday story on journalists selling ideas to Hollywood. Section 3 is an article from the Columbia Journalism Review on the "risky dance" of magazine writers and editors and Hollywood agents.
Tags: None
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Tipsheet No: 544
When the Dayton Daily News realized juvenile crime had become the community's No. 1 problem, it began a project called Kids in Chaos. It involved collaboration with some two dozen community agencies and included partnerships with other media, WHIO-TV and WYSO radio. The project encompassed several parts, all of which are representd in this 24-page reprint. Audio tape available through the IRE Resource Center at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ ire.org. Ask for tape #IRE96-63.
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Blind Justice: Who killed Janie Fray?
Hansen's one-page handout sums up his investigation that won the IRE medal for radio this year. When Jane Marie Fray was found brutally murdered, police moved quickly to arrest her boyfriend Ricky Almosch. WJR Radio began looking at facts and circumstances that police had either ignored or not found. The investigation and a number of court hearings eventually led to the dismissal of all charges, ending Amolsch's 10-month imprisonment and a renewed quest for the real killer. To order a tape and/or transcript of Hansen's winning broadcast, ask for file #12837.Although Martin Yant (Ohio Observer) was unable to attend the session, his article about the wrongful conviction of a young Dayton couple who spent 11 years in prison for sexual abuse is included in this packet. Audio tape available through the IRE Resource Center at (573) 882-3364 or rescntr@ ire.org. Ask for tape #IRE96-43.
Tags: Freeing the innocent: Investigating wrongful convictions 16 pg.