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• Tips for Investigating Church Issues/Scandals

  Thomas takes you step by step on how to cover religion in your community. She gives tips on how to prepare for your story and how to deal with the likely outcome of strong emotional reaction.

  Tags: religion

  By Judy Thomas

  2011

• Belief is in the document: Tips on investigating religion

  Gorski discusses various aspects of covering religion. The tipsheet includes advice about where to find church records such as 990s, applications for property tax exemptions, and articles of incorporation. The tipsheet also explains what each type of record could reveal about the church.

  Tags: religion; beat reporting; churches; nonprofits

  By Eric Gorski

  2008

• Tracing and using International Archives

  This tipsheet is essentially a list of internet sources that are helpful for journalists. The list is divided into categories, which include Portals, Records, Parliaments and Political Parties, Religion and various geographic areas.

  Tags: internet; backgrounding; search engines; electronic records

  By Eric Hennekam

  2005

• Tipsheet on investigating a nonprofit, church-based organization

  The Internal Revenue Service has different regulations for churches than most other 501c3 nonpofits. Because of this, some of the documents reporters rely upon when investigating nonprofits aren't available. Despite this, there are a number of ways reporters can uncover information about churches. In this tipsheet, Allman lists sources of documents that can help reporters find documents regarding religious organizations when it seems none are available.

  Tags: religion; nonprofit; church; 501c3; Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Deeper Life Christian Church; pay databases; articles of incorporation; marriage records; civil court; family law; congregation; worship; sermons; public records

  By John W. Allman

  2004

• Ten Tips for Reporting on Arab\ Muslim Communities

  Covering the Arab and Muslim communities is a difficult job. The religion of Islam is vastly more complex to cover than say Catholicism. Arabs, like most ethnic groups, tend to be difficult to pin down with one description or another. Crumm offers ten useful tips on how to report on these important and interesting peoples.

  Tags: Muslim; Islam; Arab; Chaldeans Maronites; Melkites; Coptic; Antiochian; Syrian orthodox; Allah; hijab; Judaism; Christianity; media bias; ethnic discrimination; experts; lobbyists; imam; sheikh; FISA

  By David Crumm

  2003

• Beyond Google: Supersearching and the Invisible Web

  There's more to using the Internet than just Google. Margot Williams of the Washington Post shows various ways a reporter would miss information by just using Google. She shows information on Iraq War Casualties, terrorism, the Space Shuttle Columbia and more that can't be found with the popular search engine.

  Tags: Defenselink; AP casualty database; Accurint; Autotrack; Nexis; US Treasury Office; Internet archive; allwhois; Guidestar; Dialog File 225; Firstgov; FOIA; Campaign finance; Open Secrets; Political Moneyline; lobbyists; PACER; RACER; CM/ECF; LLRX; Smoking Gun; FindLaw; Census; American Religion Data Archive; Library of Congress; EDGAR; FBO; BRB publications

  By Margot Williams

  2003

• Religious Links

  A short but useful page of links to religion data. There is also a quick list of databases to use when covering religion.

  Tags: religion; church

  By Ron Nixon

  2003

• Examining non-profit organizations

  This tipsheet lists the most important documents reporters needs to research when covering charities and nonprofits. Those include 990 forms, bond prospectuses, government contracts and audits by watchdog groups.

  Tags: donations; fund-raising; charities; religion; foundations; social issues

  By Gil Gaul

  2002

• Covering Diverse Communities

  There may soon be a new definition for "minorities", as some communities are rapidly becoming more diverse. Warikoo offers advice on how to report in a diverse community, as well as several Web sites that give information about several communities. A supplement to the tipsheet are a few articles by Warikoo from "Children First" series. Order by calling IRE at 573-882-3364.

  Tags: civil rights; civic journalism; race; affirmative action; Hindu; immigrants; voting patterns; religion; gay; class; poverty; census

  By Niraj Warikoo

  2001

• Tips for Investigating Religion

  Tipsheet includes basic suggestions for investigating religion stories.

  Tags: internet; sources; organizations; symbols; religion

  By Judy Thomas

  2001